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Domestic: 32.00UAH
International: $7.92USD
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Just Almost Jazz
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Domestic price: 95.99UAH 86.38UAH
International price: $23.76USD $21.38USD
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I think that modern interpretation of the traditional Ukrainian music, which is presented in this album, is one of the steps not only forward, but also deep down. In the first place - deep down. As for me, this attempt seems to be a success.
| Domestic price: 52.20UAH,
International price: $12.92USD
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...if we could hear what we say – probably, we would keep silent. But – we do speak. And what is then left for our words but for the echo of our pace? What is then left for our eyes but for memory? And who are we then if not prophets? – for we walk in a circle, that is why we as though know everything in advance...
| Domestic price: 40.08UAH,
International price: $9.92USD
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I could say something about the reflection of the musical universe here, as several musical trends and styles got skilfully and gently entangled in this album. Still it seems to me that it would not be groundless to speak about the reflection of the Universe itself, as it is a musical stream, which is characterised by generality.
| Domestic price: 27.96UAH,
International price: $6.92USD
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"Under the Window" is just a frankly beautiful album. Tenderness and force are mixed here really exactly, delicately, you start admiring it – and already just do not notice how you submerge in the music deeper. For still correct, harmonious combination of the female and masculine is not a trifle, it is from such ground that real women and men, beautiful people grow.
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The trip in store for us is blue-eyed, smooth and deep, so get into the corresponding mood. Electronic patterns, archaic singing and the noise of water – that is external surroundings, only the three basic elements. But the internal content is virtually boundless.
| Domestic price: 32.00UAH,
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Yuri Gnatkovsky does something quite different, not in line with the general massive of Ukrainian pop and rock music. But – yes, it is light, and bright, and beautiful, and with a taste of jazz. The taste is, actually, not weak – because half of compositions of the album are based on old, known, classic jazz plays.
| Domestic price: 32.00UAH,
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It is just extraordinarily beautiful music – deep, transparent, illuminating meditation of sound. In it, there harmoniously revolve round Ukrainian melodies and lyrics – the Asiatic guttural singing, Southern percussion, bells and electric guitar... You listen – and understand: strange is this world, and its wonders are – joyous.
Domestic price: 27.96UAH,
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She decided not to squeeze her debut album in any harsh thematic or stylish frames. Actually, the name "Travelling by Crimea" testifies exactly to this – during the trip, it will be possible to meet various, absolutely differing compositions here. The main thing that unites them is the oriental intricacy in melodies and the southern passion in performance.
| Domestic price: 64.32UAH,
International price: $15.92USD
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Actually, melodies of these Christmas carols are beauty in themselves. But here they just charm with fairy-tale transparency, the feeling of lightness and, simultaneously, saturation, filling. They absolutely naturally balance on the border between celestial and earthly music, between ordinary and elated joy. Wonderful work.
| Domestic price: 27.96UAH,
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The album "Valley of Muses" is, in fact, a Ukrainian project in the domain of world music – at that, presumably, virtually the first one in Ukraine. It is strange and nice to hear how organically there sound together, for example, the lyre, the deeply Ukrainian violin, – and the Indian percussion. Or the mandolin with the drymba – why not a couple?
| Domestic price: 32.00UAH,
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In skilful hands, it is capable of anything. The triptych "Bravo, Sax!" is called to prove it – and it copes with the task very convincingly. There is the whole palette. Delicately? Yes. Delicately enough to look simple. Interesting? You bet. It is a very bright release.
| Domestic price: 199.94UAH,
International price: $49.49USD
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Just an ideal balance between affability to the listener and self-absorbed contemplation. Conditionally, a sort of semi-acoustic, minimalist trip-hop. But far not any trip-hop would afford so much fresh, transparent air in sounding as here.
| Domestic price: 40.08UAH,
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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.
| Domestic price: 32.00UAH,
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Any concrete definition would seem too narrow here – even though such directions as new-age, fusion, jazz-rock imply a wide palette of sounds and technical tools. But here you will find all this – and something more, for what there are rather not names, but feeling.
| Domestic price: 48.16UAH,
International price: $11.92USD
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As a rule the idea of heroic nature has never even crossed the minds of the heroic figures. Moreover they can even get frightened if one alludes to this. But still they continue doing their work. Just because it is their... It’s no use in objecting to the fact that real musicians, the same as the real music, begin with an ability to listen carefully. To listen and to hear.
| Domestic price: 32.00UAH,
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...being a city-dweller and an average person, I cannot listen to an authentic singing for quite a long time. I need not only voice melodies, but also more or less complicated rhythms and some additional melodious lines. That’s why it is very good that the projects like this one appear...
| Domestic price: 52.20UAH,
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Here, there is place for a boyish smile, but as a whole I would call the album – strict. That is, here there are no superfluous movements, only pure, exact lines – and in it their beauty lie...
Domestic price: 40.08UAH,
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Airy, almost weightless, joyful – although with a light pensive note, but without anchors of sorrow. This is not slow, heated summer – rather, fresh coolness of early spring, which is not afraid to become an attentive autumn in the course of time.
| Domestic price: 27.96UAH,
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Skoryk is both a famous person and multifarious author. In particular, his piano music is included into concert repertoire of many performers – Ukrainian, as well as foreign ones. Having heard at least one or two melodies, you will at once understand why.
Domestic price: 40.08UAH,
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this music sounds timely – although, possibly, the point is that it simply does not belong to any definite time. And for this reason, having no rigid anchors, it feels comfortable anywhere, in any surroundings. In the end, one can hear in it echoes of the rock heat of the 1960s, and passion of flamenco, and blues and jazz greetings, and the school of the classic guitar, and country...
| Domestic price: 32.00UAH,
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...the songs, which are well-known to us, are performed in a jazz manner, and people say that Skhid-Side ("East-Side") is in fact one of the best jazz bands of Kharkiv... Especially because in this particular case it is not only jazz, but also TNMKongo - this mixture turns out to be strikingly successful...
Domestic price: 27.96UAH,
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I listened to it in a transparent evening, listened at the crazy three o'clock in the morning, listened during a lazy siesta – this music fits everything, as the aroma of truly fresh tea fits clear thoughts. About such music, it is necessary to write not words, but pictures – and preferably four-dimension one...
Domestic price: 40.08UAH,
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