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It does not often happen so that an album thrills from the first minutes – the more so when you know who is playing, and for this reason you hope to hear something truly... true. But Er.J.Orchestra is one of those who are really capable of not only justifying but also surpassing expectations. "The Unicorn" studio is a wonderful, complicated, very interesting album. However, the concert "The Unicorn Live" raises the "plank" even higher – for, you see, live performance. And what a sort of! This recording can serve to exemplify how multilevel studio experiments in live performance, surprisingly, do not lose their depth – and, moreover, acquire new bright patterns, dimensions due to the saturated communication with music and the audience here-and-now. Without focusing on individual performers, I would emphasize that musicians truly in love with their business perform here – and you see their names yourself. And, interestingly: each of them separately does not really have almost anything too sophisticated, to say nothing about the superfluous – but these transparent lines interlace so pointedly and charmingly, that an indescribably rich matter of light appears. In the case of Er.J.Orchestra, it is not only about concert improvisations – the issue is discovery and creation of old-new worlds, no less. Chamber Elf sympho-jazz... However, why chamber? With this light, it is possible to fill in thousands and thousands of human lamps in the largest halls – and it is very sorry that Er.J.Orchestra performs so rarely. And it is very good that recording of the concert (by the way, an anniversary one) was not lost, that they succeeded in reviving it, although initially the quality was almost hopeless – I'm grateful to everybody and each who contributed their mastery into it. And – soul. Anton Jozhik Leyba (Hedgehog) Alexei Alexandrov: piano (CD1 – 1,3; CD2 – 2,3), recorders (CD1 – 3)
Viktor Krisko: violin, viola
Arkady Shilkloper: waldhorn (CD1 – 3; CD2 – 2,3), "alperidu" (CD1 – 3)
Gregory Nemirovsky: trumpet (CD1 – 3; CD2 – 1,2,3), flugelhorn (CD1 – 3; CD2 – 1), medieval cornet (CD1 – 3), melodica (CD2 – 2)
Maria Khmeleva: flute (CD1 – 2,3), recorder (CD1 – 3; CD2 – 3)
Sergey Rybalkin: electric guitar (all tracks, except CD2 – 1)
Andrei Pushkarev: vibraphone, kettledrums, glockenspiel
Vladimir Sorochenko: bass guitar
Alexander Beregovsky: percussion, darabuka, hand drum
Oleg Dr. Kobtsev: percussion, spring drum, udu, vocal
Alex Fantaev: drums
Olexa Kabanov: gusli (CD1 – 3), sitar (CD1 – 2,3), ectar (CD1 – 3)
Pavel Stolbov: piano (CD1 – 2)
Konstantin Strelchenko: bayan (CD2 – 3)
Yong Ya: koto (CD1 – 3)
"The Elfian Scale" Chamber orchestra (orchestration and conducting by Gregory Nemirovsky): (CD1 – 3; CD2 – 1,2,3)
"Hurtopravtsi" (Shepherds): ethnic vocal (CD1 – 3)
Publisher: Karavan CD
Catalogue number: KCD 603/604
Year: 2009
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 | Sirynga
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| The Bamboo Forest Temple |
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| The Unicorn:
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| | | a) Magic Woods
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| | | b) Madrigal
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| | | c) The Battle Hunt
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| | | d) The Coming Home Pastoral
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| | | e) Dance With the Unicorn
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| | Total playing time: 51:54 |
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...the album at once creates elated, festive mood – but in a surprising way. In the correct way. Because, although about a half of the compositions can hardly be called merry ones – a smile is very expressly felt in them. Somewhere dim, somewhere transparent, somewhere dreamy, somewhere thoughtful – but it is present in each piece, and it warms.
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