Enver Izmaylov. With My Best Wishes!

When I first listened to this album – it was not so long ago – I did not know yet that his author is Enver Izmailov. And, frankly speaking, I was indifferent almost to everything for two days – since I was listening to nothing more, but to this album for two days at a run. I was listening only to this music, to this mad and divine (if you wish) mixture of everything with everything – the mixture, in which rhythm, melody, harmony and beauty are simple synonyms. Here emotions have an eastern shape of eyes, blood is full of southern temperament and skill has an absolute regularity and beauty of northern snowflakes. It is a secret known only to this person how he manages within several minutes to join radically different, if to judge outwardly, motives in his melody. As for us, we have nothing to do but to be enamoured in an unusual, effervescent and cosmopolitan talent of Enver Izmailov. Being one of the best virtuosos of the world, he does not flaunt with his skill and technical perfection of his personal performance. Like any real master, he plays notes in exact quantity and exactly there, as many and where it is really necessary. He creates a universal folk music of the nation that lives not on the earth, but on the Earth – creates confidently, gently, thrillingly, earnestly, simply and wisely. This music is worth listening to. Thanks to such music, our planet remains round.

Anton Jozhik Leyba (Hedgehog)