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Note! Right now, a special offer is available from the website, where you can get this disc as a present: umka.com/eng/news (gift offer is unavailable during all discount sales) The previous solo project by Svyatoslav Vakarchuk, "Vnochi" (At Night), was truly wide-scale – it involved dozens of jazz, rock and even classic musicians. And its main highlight was going beyond limits of certain styles, a bright alloy of those very jazz, rock and classics. The album "Brussels", instead, appears almost as a chamber one – there are only five creators of it – but it also offers something special. This is, so to speak, author rock music – in the sense that it blurs, expands limits of the very term "rock music". Not only because there are neat inclusions of other ways of musical thinking. Not only because the project was created by bright personalities – conscious musicians, each of them really having something to say. The main thing is that this music is not committed to a certain style, but rather to a certain brand, a quality of expression. So, if for the sake of this quality one needs to add some atypical colors – it happens in an easy and natural way. Such a cool simplicity. At the same time – it is a team play, in which no one pulls the blanket over himself. Clearly, Vakarchuk as the organizer and inspirer of the project is a certain center of gravity – but even this center is not burdensome or straightforward. And this is definitely nice. Note! This album is also released as a vinyl LP. Svyatoslav Vakarchuk (lyrics (except for 8), vocals);
Dmytro Shurov (glockenspiel (4), piano, electric piano, electric organs) – the former participant of the projects "Okean Elzy", "Esthetic Education", "Zemfira" (the album "Spasibo"); engaged in the solo project Pianoboy;
Max Malyshev (drums, percussion) – one of the best Ukrainian drummers, participated in recording of albums by the majority of popular Ukrainian performers;
Petro Cherniavsky (bass guitars, guitars) – primarily known as the "OE" guitarist.
Serhiy Babkin (lyrics (8), flute, guitars, vocals).
Music producers of the "Brussels" project are the "OE" keyboardist Milos Yelich and Petro Cherniavsky.
Publisher: Supersymmetry
Year: 2012
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