Molotov 20. Korali. The modern treatment of traditional Ukrainian folkmusik. /digi-pack/

I do not know if this disc will become an unexpectedness for you, but I know for sure that for me it is a part of that movement for which I have been waiting for a long time. I mean, being a city-dweller and an average person, I cannot listen to an authentic singing, for example, for quite a long time. I can listen to it only for a short period of time, though I wish I could do that longer as I find it to be very interesting. But unfortunately I lack patience as I need not only voice melodies, but also more or less complicated rhythms and some additional melodious lines. I would like to hear an organic interweaving of old and new melodies, sensible eclecticism and universality. I would like the language of music to be understandable irrespective of social and aesthetic stereotypes, in which a person has been brought-up. One may certainly say that the language of music is universal and understandable for everybody. It’s true. But when we are talking about the roots, about the interpretation of something old with the help of modern means, we’d rather prefer there were no primitiveness and vulgarity in that. That’s why it is very good that the projects like this one appear, because it is search and movement. Sometimes it is more successful, sometimes it is not so successful. Still the search is taking place. Let’s watch it go on.

 

Anton Jozhik Leyba (Hedgehog)