Nataliya Lebedeva Ensemble. Tatransky Caj. /digi-pack/.

Have you ever seen a vein beating on a musician's temple? Here, it seems to make it possible to sense that almost physically: deep absorption, dissolution – and extreme concentration. Thus, as well as any high-quality beverage, "Tatransky Caj" should not be drunk in a hurry during a smoko break. Most of the tracks on the album are energetic, at a rather high tempo, and the stream captures from the very first measures – but simultaneously, strangely, there is the persistent feeling of lightness and ease. This happens when the smallest details – and there are many of them here – are worked out, polished to shine, but not mechanically, thus the light and warmth come and unfold from inside. This is what happens when in purely urban, by and large, music there suddenly and naturally emerge ethnic patterns, echoes of the roots common to all the mankind.. And such combination of external coolness, nonlinear drama, filigree technique of all the musicians with the bright, even explosive inner emotions – is truly mesmerizing. As the breath of high water, in which – under which – sometimes completely unexpected streams intertwine.. It seems that this feature is common for all author albums by Natalia Lebedeva – but here it seems to acquire ultimate reality.
Nataliya Lebedeva - piano
Konstantin Ionenko - bass
Alex Fantaev - drums