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Vasyl Hontarsky, Yuriy "HoboT" Galinin. Vasya and Hobot.

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Vasyl Hontarsky, Yuriy "HoboT" Galinin. Vasya and Hobot.

Vasja is, actually, Vasyl’ Gontars'ky, the leader of "Vasja Club". Hobot is one of the most picturesque Kyiv contrabass players. I had heard how wonderfully he played twists and boogie-woogie and was positively surprised having seen him in this strange project. There are also two more nice and known musicians, but they are not indicated in the name. So. The album is really queer, its style is "for one’s soul". To the question "for whose one?" we answer: a hippie’s one, whatever this word may mean. Nobody here strikes a pose, tries to prove anything to anyone, shaves or avoids tabooed lexis (attention!). Something different takes place here – a "session" for the sake of "session", even though in the empty "flat", and a bottle of beer as the closest friend. At least, it is within the reach. It is a man's dialogue with the air, when the woman has already left, but her image is still melting in the mirror. The day has nevertheless begun – you are surprised but alive and somehow even healthy, at least, so it seems. It snows in the northern window, the western one is wet with fog, the southern one has burned down. And you are in the middle of all that – what other explanations do you need? There is nothing. A hangover philosophical song.

Anton Yozhyk Leyba (Hedgehog)

Note! This album is also released as a vinyl LP.

Publisher: atomcat
Catalogue number: 004
Year: 2006

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Yuriy "HoboT" Galinin
Vasyl Hontarsky

Domestic price: 390.60UAH
International price: $27.90USD
CD1
1.  Oj, vej!
2.  Ne puskaj divcha huljaty
3.  Batal'onnyj razvedchyk
4. Mp3De mij tato buv
music: Eric Clapton
5.  Opyum
6. Mp3Shidi-ridi
7. Mp3Post F**k Toom
music: Goran Bregovic
8. Mp3Pro Pashu
music: Tom Waits
9.  Sunny
music: Bobby Hebb
10.  Pisnja pro Halju
11.  Coda
  bonus:
12.  Ty dumajesh, jakscho ty mene kynesh... (poem)
13.  Letjat' vid'my (poem)
14.  Vodolaz (poem)
15.  Ded Banzaj y zajcy (opus bratn'oju movoju)
16.  Oj, moroz, moroz
17.  Konohon
 Total playing time: 44:39

Fragments of the compositions marked with Mp3 mark are available for listening. How to listen?

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Reviews (4)

  Àííà , Êèåâ
24-09-2008 14:24

Ó Âàñåíüêè âñåãî 5 àëüáîìîâ, ïðîñòî ñ Õîáîòîì áûë îäèí. Âàñåíüêó ëþáëþ, êàê æàëü, ÷òî òàê ìàëî óñïåë, èäåé áûëî â ãîëîâå...


  Volyniaka , Ëóöüê, Óêðà¿íà
29-04-2008 10:14

Óêðà¿íñüêèé Êóñòóð³öà.


  , Òåðíîï³ëü, Óêðà¿íà
11-08-2007 12:16

Âàñèëü Ãîíòàðñüêèé, çåìëÿ éîìó ïóõîì, áóâ âåëè÷åçíèì ´åíåðàòîðîì ³äåé! Ñëóõàþ÷è öåé ïðîåêò âêîòðå ïåðåêîíóºøñÿ â öüîìó!


 
22-02-2007 11:46

Äèñê îñîáåííûé! Òðîãàòåëüíàÿ ìóçûêà è ëèðèêà... æàëü, ÷òî åäèíñòâåííûé è ïîñëåäíèé. Âàñÿ Ãîíòàðñêèé óìåð.