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| Title: Fragmenti |
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| Artist: Paris To Kyiv |
| (c): (C) 2005 Olesia Records |
| (p): (P) 2005 Olesia Records |
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Paris To Kyiv further expands the "world music" definition, fusing its new world variant Ukrainian music and contemporary sounds with new threads of Latin and global percussion, multi-tonal singing, and electric and Spanish guitar.
On "Fragmenti", Paris To Kyiv continues its evolution from the more typically Ukrainian sounds of earlier records to a truly universal sonic tapestry. The usual Ukrainian folk poetry and chants and prayers and song fragments are now heard in an expanded global fusion with a greater use of percussion -- both acoustic and Latin, classical and electric guitar, and even overtone chanting.
This new direction is fuelled by the playing of musicians new to Paris To Kyiv. Drawn from the endless pool of exciting Manitoba talent, the group resonates with the rhythmical drive of multi-genre percussionist Christian Dugas, the Latin and Afro-Cuban pulse of Rodrigo Munoz who also contributes his Spanish guitar talents and vocals, fretless bassist and recording engineer, Paul Yee, and overtone singing artist, Alan Schroeder.
The connection to earlier Paris To Kyiv projects is maintained by bandurist and sopilka player Julian Kytasty and violist/guitarist/singer/songwriter Richard Moody, who also produced "Fragmenti". Both of these musicians, bards from different cultural worlds, have been part of the Paris To Kyiv project for the last 10 years and give it its unusual and distinct flavour.
The catalyst for all of this innovative music is, of course, singer and culture maker, Alexis Kochan, who has taken those unique pieces of "folk jewelry", the "fragments", and with her collaborators , turned them into priceless musical gems.
She describes the new recording "...more as a body of work than a collection of songs. It's conceptual. Of all my projects, this one feels most like a film score. The bells that open the recording and reoccur from time to time throughout it, immediately pull the listener into a sound environment that is at the same time ancient and modern, sacred and secular; a sound that is mysterious, haunting, perhaps even eerie; a sound which is so full of imagery that it begs for illustration.
Like the previous Paris To Kyiv recordings, "Fragmenti" is a tapestry made up of Ukrainian folk poetry and musical elements - bits and pieces (fragments) of the left overs from times past - woven together with new threads - a new interpretation by a chosen group of musical collaborators creating new work that is distinctively Ukrainian. It's bold, truthful and definitely "music in the cracks". It invites revisits - with each new listen something new may be heard...
...These fragments - these jewels - are rather special. For the first time in my work I feel that I've moved beyond the Ukrainian psyche to a universal one... All (songs) are comments on the human experience.
"Fragmenti" is cathartic - mantra-like - almost healing in nature. I'm not sure but perhaps it's meant to heal the Ukrainian people - or to heal me." |
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