Serhij Grimalsky. Dva. (Two) // www.UMKA.com.ua

If I am not mistaken, before 1994 Sergiy Hrymalsky was a participant of the famous group Tabula Rasa – exactly at the beginning of the 1990th first popularity came to the group. But Sergiy decided to start his solo music career – and has managed to do quite a bit during this time. To his credit, he has a few interesting instrumental albums, as well as participation as an invited musician and composer in a number of successful pop-projects. But, strangely enough, exactly the album "Two" is actually not mentioned in Hrymalsky's discography. Why – I do not know. But I think that this is just unfair – taking into account how beautiful, elegant this album appears. Nothing apart from the fortepiano – but it is the case when you don't need anything more. Nothing superfluous, nothing too difficult, hasty, empty. Black, white – and soft shades in pauses, the ability to put a full stop, to hint, to step back in shade leaving in light – the music... It seems to me that he could give no names to his plays – just because this music is lighter than words, more precise. Deeper – and thus simpler than them, truer. In the end, the whole album is perceived not quite as a collection of separate plays. Yes, they are different, and there are distances among them – though not sharp, but smooth. This is as though parts for something integral – something that does not need definitions.

Anton Jozhik Lejba (Hedgehog)

Nataliya Lebedeva. Medium Cool.

Strange: although you could hardly characterize the album as quiet, unemotional – it leaves the feeling of tranquility...the heart and mind sound equal, do not argue, search for harmonious interlacing. And discover it – not only in sounds, in the whole atmosphere.

Domestic price: 36.04UAH, International price: $8.92USD

LoTus, Rosava. LoTus feat. Rosava.

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: 36.04UAH, International price: $8.92USD
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Vagif Mustafa-zadeh. One Day in Kyiv.

Masterly patterns painted in the air by gentle movements of fantasy and skill are extremely tender and tempestuous at the same time. They resemble the southern heat reproduced at the transparent windowpane by frost and rime.

Domestic price: 56.24UAH, International price: $13.92USD

Neonila Lagodyuk. Pershi kroky u svit dzhazu. Oryhinal'ni dzhazovi kompozyciji dlja fortepiano. (The first steps toward jazz. Original jazz compositions for piano)

An extremely light and transparent record – though one would not say that it is easy music. Actually, jazz is never too simple – even if it looks so. That is what we may observe in music by Neonila Lagodjuk – simplicity that appears as a result of extensive experience and persevering work.

Domestic price: 44.12UAH, International price: $10.92USD

Serhij Grimalsky. Dva. (Two)

Nataliya Lebedeva. Medium Cool.

LoTus, Rosava. LoTus feat. Rosava.

Vagif Mustafa-zadeh. One Day in Kyiv.

Neonila Lagodyuk. Pershi kroky u svit dzhazu. Oryhinal'ni dzhazovi kompozyciji dlja fortepiano. (The first steps toward jazz. Original jazz compositions for piano)

Aleksandr Saratsky. SaraBanda. (2+)