Yanka Kozyr's Orchestra. Maty. (Mother)

The powerful beauty of this disc is extraordinary. The polyphonic environment acquires here such depth and scope that just wipes off any limitations – stuns. The feeling similar to when you stand on a mountain against the wind of such force that you can lean on it, you open your arms – and suddenly with all of your self you hear its real voice, the boundless singing of the living flow... Yanka Kozyr Orchestra (YaKO) has never complained of lack of ideas, but this time, it seems, they have done something unusual even for themselves. And, although Yanka herself says that the album "Mother" has appeared comparatively light – everything is, you know, very relative. This is not at all lightness of pop-music, that is a different thing. Here, what really strikes is the lightness that YaKO feels in the complicated music matter – and with which it dips the listener into it, takes all attention without odds, simply and naturally forces one to tremble, to bate breath, to balance on the thin blade of attention. To empathize – truly, up to catharsis. Yes, this is not simply an album, but – a drama, sympho-rock fortune telling, in which birth and death are not even contrasted, but just do not exist as such, because they are one whole, the indissoluble, indescribable word of the world. Yanka Kozyr Orchestra not simply create music – they create their own mystery of sound, live and bright. And the music matter appears here so saturated, dense, enriched that it seems that it is visible, one can touch it, one can breathe it under water...

Anton Jozhik Leyba (Hedgehog)