Aby MC, Tanya Radosteva. F5. /digi-pack/ // www.UMKA.com.ua

My God, I am happy to admit – due to such works as "F5", Your presence becomes more perceptible in this world than usual. There is as much heart in this music, as just cannot exist without love. It has eyes so bright that the world is not reflected but plunges into them, and lives there happily... You know – of course, you know – how it happens when, closer to the evening, you go out of your home and breathe in full lungs of the sky... and the air is so transparent, as if washed with water from a well, and it smells of quiet gladness... and it smells of a fresh kiss – that is your life smiling to you and everyone around... There happen moments in life when suddenly you understand that you are happy not some time after, not some time ago – but right now, right here, just as you are – happy... This album is full of exactly such happiness – it exists right here and now, it quietly shines in each melody. Here, it is very cozy, here are no abrupt motions, and even the dissemination of funk is as though drops of rain on pavestones. Soft... The general acid jazz tone has absolutely organically absorbed unhurried, but so hot African rays – and fogs of the north Atlantics – and green flexible willow sing, warmth and tenderness of the Ukrainian singing – and a bit of cool illumination of cities at night... It rarely happens so that there is not a single weak composition in an album – but "Aby MS" with Tanya Radostyeva have worked out a small miracle. In "F5", all songs are really strong, light, complete and pure, as rivers of ancient times... Let these rivers flow – for our joy, for the world’s well-being...
I do not insist, but. As to my taste. If you place next to this album "Lullabies" by Rosava, "Trip to Kosakivka" by Ocheretyany Kit, "Green" and "Korali" from the series "Modern Interpretation of Traditional Ukrainian Music" (plus we could add Shopping Hour "The Worldest Music", Vezi’s "Voice of the Vepsland", plus something else) – the holiday will last long...

Anton Jozhik Leyba (Hedgehog)

Tanya Radosteva - vocal
Jack Clift - voice samples (7,10), slid-guitar (10), vocal (10)
Petro Yakovchenko - trumpet (7,12)
Serhiy Volodkin - trombone (6)
Vitaliy Ivanov - tenor-saksofon (8)
Maks Kochetov - alt-sax (1)
Ihor Chernov - soprano-sax (7), tenor-sax (5), bass-clarinet (11)
Roman Soluk - sopilka (2)
Andriy Makarenko - back-vocal (4)
Julia Berezovska - voice samples (12)
Yuriy Akop - voice samples (4)
Khor druziv - voice samples (4)
Batacoto - "N'kosi Sikelel'i Africa" (Enoch Mankayi Sontonga) (3)
Tanya Sha - music (2,4), keyboards, string programming
Hennadiy Sydorov - texts (2,4), melodeclamation (11), guitars, drums programming

CAMATA. Fire-show.

If music of the album were not interesting, even then this release would be worth buying – for the sake of the booklet, because it is a separate transparent trip. However, we a lucky – the music also opens for us something new indeed. Or, maybe, you know other works in the style of "Carpathians new-age with elements of ethnic jazz"?

Domestic price: 49.14UAH, International price: $10.92USD

Shopping Hour. The Worldest Music. /digi-pack/

I listened to it in a transparent evening, listened at the crazy three o'clock in the morning, listened during a lazy siesta – this music fits everything, as the aroma of truly fresh tea fits clear thoughts. About such music, it is necessary to write not words, but pictures – and preferably four-dimension one...

Domestic price: 62.64UAH, International price: $13.92USD

Aby MC. Ocetni standarty. (Acid Standards)

They strikingly harmoniously combine clear sorrow, sadness – with joy as clear. And that is why there is inside always a place left for light. Usually, children have this ability – and it does not matter how old they are...

Domestic price: 49.14UAH, International price: $10.92USD

Vezi. Voice of the Vepsland. /digi-pack/

The trip in store for us is blue-eyed, smooth and deep, so get into the corresponding mood. Electronic patterns, archaic singing and the noise of water – that is external surroundings, only the three basic elements. But the internal content is virtually boundless.

Domestic price: 53.64UAH, International price: $11.92USD