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Simply Rock
Ocean Elzy, Mandry, Mad Heads XL and others
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From punk to hard-rock, from pop-metal to ballads in the rock-modern manner – however, the features so unnoticeably flow from one to another that they are not worth clinging tight to. The main thing is that energy of these guys is quite evident and nice. And all the rest – is already just a matter of taste.
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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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His audience is growing if not with the speed of a lightning, then – incessantly. At that, in three directions simultaneously. One – the listeners who came to love his own songs. Second – the audience who keep track of his theatrical life (i.e. "Theater 19"). Third – readers who value interesting poetry.
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Strange as it may appear, but you’ll find a good deal of novelties on the disc – the songs that have never been released before. And personally I consider them to be just wonderful songs. Anyway, the famous works also warm the heart. This is like it often happens with cronies whose close relationship doesn’t depend on circumstances. All this makes not a compilation but an album of a full value with incredibly crystal, lyrical and high spirits.
| Domestic price: 27.96UAH,
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This is simultaneously the simplest and the most complicated format – there is nothing but the guitar and voice, and you either sound or you'd better not even start... "Acoustics" is the last real album by Vasyl Gontarsky, the fifth one. No others will follow. If everyone left behind so fair traces – the land would shine under our feet...
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"Vij" is one of a few groups that really know how to keep silent. In a qualitative, saturated way. They say little, but to the point – and then silence falls down for a long time. Sometimes, it even causes cold shiver, so many various meanings are hidden there. And sometimes – everything becomes so simple, clear, clean...
Domestic price: 48.16UAH,
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...this music has its own face, and it, which is good, can hardly be characterized with just one term. Yes, the sounding is characterized by soft lyricism – this could be usual pop-rock unless sometimes it did not swing, say, to the jazz palette...
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Second Breath is a Kyiv group that has been playing blues for 40 (!) years already. It is quite possible that this is the oldest active blues band not only in Kyiv, but also all through Ukraine. Or, maybe, through considerably wider territories – who know...
Domestic price: 60.28UAH,
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...I very clearly feel here the attitude to music as to the goal and way of existence, not a product, however qualitative it might be. I think that it brings the group to balancing on the thin verge – rock, pop, art, magic, bread and show, temptation, the truth of art and art of the truth... this music is in a search. And – it finds.
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...so many modern styles are put on the basis of the traditional Ukrainian music and folklore that it is simply impossible to count all of them. Art, jazz, blues, reggae, rap and simply rock – and so on. Still, we have to give the composer his due – all this almost Babylonian hurly-burly sounds organically, properly and witty...
| Domestic price: 64.32UAH,
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The very first sounds with which this disc starts inspire quite a stable association with rock music of the 1960s and 1980s – actually, a pleasant association. But – and this is also pleasant – the style palette of the album is varied and saturated enough. That is, this is rock, in which there is roll, and hard, and art, and atmospheric poetry and just poem...
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Kolo Hmar is a Kyiv group playing pure rock, without any superfluous stratifications. Currently, we do not have too many of such groups – however, it seems to be quite easy to explain that. Here, you need to create with the help of, so to say, simple tools complicated, voluminous pictures – that is why each of the group's participants must sound as distinctly as possible.
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At present, as known, the composition and sounding of Kontrabass have changed quite considerably. Thus, the debut album is simultaneously rare evidence – there is no longer the Kontrabass that you have anywhere here, except for parallel alternative worlds. It is a pity to some extent – because that was cool...
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And it is difficult to clearly define what the thing is, why exactly these songs warm you – but there lurks behind the external simplicity a sort of correct filling – unobtrusively, as a rain at night in summer...
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A new CD has got a title "The Way" not by accident: this name corresponds to the content of the album and to its mood. The road, journeys, nature, love…
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Rockabilly clothes have obviously become too small for them, that’s why now different trends like rock’n’roll, folk, punk, reggae and even a bit of swing have got mixed in this music. But the main thing is a powerful, like spring, and positive power.
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In the sphere of music, the group has developed and deepened the stylistics set with the album "There Is Hope" – thus, drive has became a bit less hard, but in some respect even more powerful, plastic. But there is also another aspect.Vadym Krasnooky becomes – forgive my loose definition – a lyrically-cheerful philosopher, and this does impress.
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Even their texts alone would already be quite sufficient to advantageously stand out against the majority – no doubt. This, if you wish, already really looks like rock poetry. Well, and plus – actually the music. Two bright constituents perfectly merge in it. On the one hand, this is powerful rock. On the other – warm freshness arising due to participation of not quite ordinary, as for rock, instruments matters here – a pan-pipe, accordion, domra.
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Pay attention at the title of the album – it displays its content and its essence very well. The composition of the album and every of its songs, as well as their forms and content, strive to logical harmonicity, adjustedness of every musical move, every note.
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From the one hand, the songs on this disc are very different, but on another hand, they have common energy deeply inside. This album is a juicy mixture of hard rock music of 70-th, Oriental melodic and modern electronic rhythms.
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On this album they are still young man, which inherent children's awkwardness, any other "thoroughbred puppy". It is frank music, and outstanding Vyacheslav Vakarchuk's lyrics. His songs are as silent light in a fog.
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All compositions on a CD together obey as the uniform indissoluble whole as if flexible arrow, started up in the transparent autumn sky.
| Domestic price: 23.92UAH,
International price: $5.92USD
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This group represents Ukrainian rock'n'roll music of today. It is popular in Ukraine and in Russia by its drive music, strong, unusual vocal, own style. This is their second album. Their style has slightly changed according to modern music tendencies.
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"Frankly speaking, seventy percent of our songs I like much more in this variant then in album versions. Especially Divchyna" (S. Vakarchuk, leader of OE)
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May be, for the sake of that it was worth while changing the group members – with the exception of Guru, of course. Now it is interesting what will happen next. Because judging by ears – to be continued.
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Okean Elzy advances – and freedom sounds in its music. There is no pursuit for the sake of acknowledgement – and there is no temptation of observing style limitations, but there is the ability to make it maximally as exact as you consider necessary. Sheer rock music grows from this root, creativity not for the sake of freedom, but as its direct result.
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Unlike many other rock-groups, lyrics of the songs of "Plach" written by "exterior" poets - Hrytsko Chubay, Victor Neborak and others. And it is a poetry, strong and expressive, is a pivot of the art of the group. Rock music significantly strengthen perception to poetry, sounds in unison with words.
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“Pomaranch” is the energy of colour. It is a cheerful, fresh, flexible, hot, not completely fluid, but quite a pellucid energy.
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Not too simple, but quite light, melodious – just rock. As it should be, it has enough drive – but enough romanticism as well, that is why the album is on the whole not tense, not aggressive. Melodious and energetic songs of young people, who, it seems, are almost in love.
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Siryk B.A.N.D. is as though the voice of such metropolis in which everything is mixed up but has not got lost. So, elements of synth-pop, hip-hop, psychedelics, punk, ethnic hints coexist incredibly harmoniously – one should have truly impartial views in order that this kind of mixtures sounded qualitatively. They have them.
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"Skryabin" group has changed it's style several times. Punk, new-wave, neo romantic. At the same time, musicians never loose their face. Skryabin songs are always cognate and a big army of funs like it.
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These songs seem to get out from a dusky fog into a sunny light – and to become simply honest, without any decorations. They are not always pleasant, still they are not less pure and thanks to this, they are even more valuable. In the sense that when only the truth remains, you can’t call it good or bad – it is better than such appraisal.
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This is relatively light music – but on each album by Skryabin there are always songs on social topics. And sometimes so serious and poignant that it hurts – although externally they, without unnecessary showing off, may look humorous, or quite simple, or sentimental...
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This album was about to become the third work of the band 5'nizza – but unfortunately, while working at the album the musical concept was changed so much that the group broke up. Nevertheless, on the basis of it there appeared a new project the front man of which is Andriy “Sun” Zaporozhets. So the name of it derived from the leader's one.
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Maximally simple, clear concept – the acoustic guitar plus singing. And it means that lyrics come to the first plan – and, believe me, they are worth being listened to attentively, and not once.
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...the limited composition – three musicians – dictates the need of playing distinctly. Otherwise, it will make no sense. The group manages to play the alternative without applying open sound aggression. The atmosphere is created not due to external drive, but by internal accumulation of tension..
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"TIK" is a group that right from the first song conquered admiration of the entire country. At that, it was not a protest march or hymn, no heroic lyricism, pathos, aplomb – no. They simply quietly, with a somewhat sad smile began singing about "...weird creatures without brain and without roots" – and this was enough..
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And we will hear the music that is quite rare today in Ukraine – pure rock. Clear rhythms and texts not deprived of the existential, firm guitar turns and energetic male vocal – yes. This is just the color that has been recently lacking in the variety of Ukrainian music, and it’s a pity.
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It took about two years for this triple union to finally ripen – and, justifying all expectations, the drink has appeared really interesting and decent. You cannot gulp it in one go to forget the next instant – no, here you will want to savor, to come back repeatedly. And attractiveness of this music in that it lives on the border among absolutely different styles, takes something from each but belongs to none of them in full.
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At some instant this sort of music simply divides the dense mass of the audience into a sum of separate selves – in order to reunite them later, but already at another level. Then this is no longer a crowd, then these are people... It is possible to say otherwise. In this music, beauty is dissolved – which you listen and hear staying alone with yourself, even if there is someone else around...
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