Nina Matvienko. Kolyskova zori. (Lullaby to a evening-glow)

Finally, some unfair gaps in our music space start to be filled in – it has already been ripening for a long time. In other words, here you will hear songs that actually have not been released earlier. Nina Matvienko... is it possible to estimate how many people all over the world learned about existence of Ukraine due to her singing? And this also means that they not simply learned about it, but through extreme, truthful beauty and depth. Such force and clearness are there in her voice that even songs familiar for a long time sound so fresh, as if for the first time. To say nothing of less known songs – their sounding at once bewitches, grasps all of your attention entirely. And such attention is generously rewarded – at least, I have listened to this disk several times successively, and could not interrupt it. And I will listen to it again – this voice involves you into extreme, huge, real riches. I feel that it is completely not necessary to understand words here – it suffices to distract from the text and just listen how the voice flows, how the force varies, brightness, depth, intonation change... Actually, I even not at once paid attention to that the songs are performed without additional music accompaniment – so densely, harmoniously the voice fills the whole space. However, if we already talk about singing by Nina Matvienko, it virtually always happens - such qualitative filling, content. She sings for one person as if for the whole world – and she sings for the whole world as if for one person...

Anton Jozhik Leyba (Hedgehog)