Kyiv Ethno Trio. Kyiv Ethno Trio. /digi-pack/.

Not "what exactly", but – "how exactly". This is the case where everything is easy at the first sight, but the result is weightier than the simple sum of its components. And the components include three musicians with vast experience of performing academic, pop-rock-author, and folk music. Due to KET, ancient melodies and songs recorded in folklore expeditions are performed – but as interpreted by people actively immersed into urban/rustic and in world/national music culture at the same time. Moreover, the trio participants are multi-instrumentalists, so the recording engages some dozen instruments (as well as their live performances, by the way). It is made subtly, carefully, sometimes economically on purpose – and due to that another quality of power grows into the music. Without the clutter of haste, without strained emotions – instead, with the transparent tension of the internal balance. KET somehow manage to create (bring back?) the perception of a quiet miracle, when what one admires is not the exotic but what one seems to have been familiar with well enough. In any case, the album seems to fly by in an instant and then it does not let go, it envelops.. with quiet, perhaps. As if one comes back home, where everything has elusively changed, has become a bit different, but not strange – having been updated, it still remains dear.