Anno Domini. Galilee.

If we begin from the end, we could do it so: this is a wonderful, heartfelt, clear, high-quality album – and at present this is the best album in the reserve of Anno Domini. And if we begin from the beginning... "Galilee" was recorded in a far not easy way. One night, the three came together in the concerto hall of Kharkiv Philharmonic Society and recorded live the whole album at once – the vocal+piano, guitar and percussion. This became the basis. Then the recording traveled to Israel – the guitar of Dmytro Gorelik was added some more. From there – to the Crimea, where Narket Ramazanov recorded the flute, then to the USA, there a small chamber orchestra was added, then again to Ukraine. Last strokes of percussion, and – months of laborious assembling, for they had to overlay all studio parts on the live master record, remember? Thus, it is not by chance that the polygraph contains a large photo of the sound producer Evgen Astafyev, he became one of main heroes of the album. The album is, let me repeat, wonderful – without any exaggerations. All previous experience, all best qualities of Anno Domini acquired new depth here, started shining with new colors. Tolerant (you want to say – tender) combination of classics, varied ethnics, transparent jazz charms, warms. Special gratitude to Boris Zaharov for the poems, these are not texts – this is poetry. And the voice of Marina Zaharova... only a woman who knows love and freedom – knows the both at the same time – can sing so. The mother conscious of that every child has his/her own way can...

Anton Jozhik Lejba (Hedgehog)

Marina Zakharova – vocal (1-8), grand piano (1-5,7,8)
Dima Gorelik - guitar (1-8), 12-string guitar (1,4,8), percussion (2), bass (4)
Rustem Bari – congas (3-5,7), bongo (3-5,7,8), snare (3), percussion (3-5,7,8), darbuka (4,7), daf (4,7), guitar case (8)
Orhan Agabekov – darbuka (1,2), tambourine (1), bongo (1,2), percussion (1), congas (2), church bells (2)
Narket Ramazanov – flute (5,6,8)
Jamil Bashrawi – cavala (1,3), nay (1,3)
Ben Eilon – djembe (1,3), doundoun (1-3), snare (3)
Timur Babushkin – steel drum (2)
Teimur Fel – double-bass (3,5), bass (8)
Yoni Gertner – violin (3)
Hilla Heller – viola (3)
Yoni Niv – cello (3)
Andrey Atabekov – congas (5), bongo (5)
Hadar Noyberg – flute (6)