Part organic ambient excursion, and part country lullaby, this album (of which I have an advance, and most likely incomplete, copy) has really grown on me since the first time I heard it. Utilising electronic instruments, “sound objects,” harmonium, and vocals; Grundik & Slava have really created some beautiful music of startling complexity. Sometimes, it seems innocent and pleasant as I listen to it, other times, rather menacing. While it’s somewhat close to things I’ve heard before, it’s never “quite there”– so I think any comparisons would do it injustice. This is superbly-crafted music. I’m really at a lack for words, I want to tell you this is experimental country music, if there is such a thing. Definitely an album for the repeated listening pile.
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disturbing, brilliant, creative, beautiful and
powerful, not to mention mysterious and profound, at
times.
that was really something, folks, thanx a lot, it is
really something for a true music lover who
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Kasyansky and Slava Smelovsky, and their first release with a
worldwide distribution trying to get more attention. These Russians
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