Tin Sontsa. Nad dykym polem. // www.UMKA.com.ua

I’ll calm you down at once (or won’t I?) – this is not quite usual item of our programme. A bit of hard-rock, a bit of metal, a bit of gothic – without too harsh manifestations, so that one might smoothly overflow into another. Folk motives are also present here – but it mostly shows in lyrics and not in music. No, you won’t find adaptation of folk songs here. But the album is devoted to the Ukrainian Cossacks as an embodiment of a national self-consciousness exactly of Ukrainians – this is the main motive. Still, the quantity and the depth of interpretations of any kind of topic can’t be limited by anything, except for the personal depth of an artist. And it is pleasant that in this particular case they did not expose the Cossack topic to a deliberate profanation, but tried to comprehend it somehow in their own way, and at that, to do it in the right way. How much in the right way – each listener will identify by himself in accordance with his personal likings. Personally for me it seems that the whole album is a physical yearning for freedom. And freedom is one of few things in life that really deserve attention. As well as the songs about it, of course.

Tin Sontsa. Polum’jana ruta. (Flaming Rue)

Although the new disc also contains quite a bit of historical alliterations, they are, however, rather conditional, poetic. Here, foremost, the issue is already longing for pure freedom, the freedom to live and die by one's own choice, the ability to make such choice – and not to be afraid, not to retreat.

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Arachnophobia. Arachnophobia.

Powerful, sated musical grenade, in which classical, pure rock borders on the Gothic sound – and this is already good. But Valery Vlasenko’s vocals are something really so deep, rare, genuine that one even gets surprised...

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Vombat. Visim hodyn na dobu. (Eights Hours a Day)

Though there are no obvious and faultless ties with Australia and its fauna here, still something marsupial is felt in this music. I cannot explain that. Fortunately, there’s something else. For example, as for sounding, in it gothic notes and moods are mixed with neo-romantic ones.

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Ukrainian Gothic Vol. 1.

“Komu Vnyz”, “Skryabin”, “Pirata band”, Yulia Lord and a lot more people – is it strange that they are all here? You see, they and suchlike people are looking for purity and light, plunging into the deepest darkness.

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Tin Sontsa. Nad dykym polem.

Tin Sontsa. Polum’jana ruta. (Flaming Rue)

Arachnophobia. Arachnophobia.

Vombat. Visim hodyn na dobu. (Eights Hours a Day)

Viy. Chorna Rillia.

Ukrainian Gothic Vol. 1.