I introduced Sergey Kuryokhin three months ago, posting his soundtrack for that wonderful movie titled "Gospodin Oformitel". Now it's time to post something more.
"Sparrow Oratorium" is considered by many his strongest effort as a melodic composer.
It is a disregarded avant-prog gem, and its stylistical variety is impressive. Kuryokhin shows once more his mastery as a keyboard player and sound crafter, with some magnificent ambient backgrounds and dynamic minimal patterns, while all around sounds explodes as fireworks: angelic vocals (mostly provided by Marina Kapuro), subtlety dissonant guitars, saxophone fanfares, ostinato strings, and electronic rhythms made by some powerful synthesizer sequences. The sweet, catchy tunes are placed somewhere between dream-pop and Eastern European folk music.
This is such a beautiful album, you can compare it to Philip Glass, Jan Garbarek, or even Loreena McKennitt, but you'll always be distant from its real, unique sound.
P.S. Forget the first track, "Winter", which is a simply a re-titled version of his old classic "Donna Anna", recorded in 1988. The real album starts with the second piece, "Spring".
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could you kindly upload again this milestone? Thank you in advance. Greetings from Greece.
RispondiEliminacheck it out now :)
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RispondiEliminahttps://www.kommersant.ru/doc/141892
RispondiElimina"In the text, the author is explained on his own by the composed bird language(sparrow language) - a set of smoothly sung syllables. It's supposedly a mixture of Latin, Russian and Ukrainian phonemes. In reality, there is nothing conceptual in alphabetic script - Khlebnikovsky or Burlyukovsky - no. This is more like a shadow of "children's pranks" Lewis Carroll."
Hello, Sam. I'm not sure that you'll check my message... I'm a young South-Korean who really into Russian Rock music. I'm trying to find out the meaning of lyrics in "Sparrow Oratorium". And as I know, the lyrics has no special meaning, but this is just a arrangement of non-meaning words..? Did I understand correctly?
hi. I didn't notice your message, sorry for the delay.
EliminaYes, you are right :)
If you have Facebook, please write me a message on my Soviet Sam page there, I would like to talk with you (I listen to Korean rock too).