TO ALL ALIVE CD review
- Mar 25
- 1 min read
Thank you,dear Ondrej Vesely for the amazing review on our album TO ALL ALIVE!
"....Au vent sur la pointe des pieds (On tiptoe in the wind) literally "flies" across the keyboard in chromatically teeming motifs. The aesthetics of expression in this part is more contemporary and tense, but does not lose its communicativeness. An even greater culmination of tension is brought by the final part To All Resurrected, in which the original signal motif escalates into a fascinating multi-layered counterpoint. Both marginal parts of the cycle are the bearer of vehemently tense music, where Baryshevskyi leaves his whole soul, as if he plays it with superhuman energy, acquired at the cost of a pact with the devil.
However, what brought me the greatest joy was the way Shalygin works with simple, straightforward motifs. He finds inspiration in means that most would overlook. Moreover, he manages to process them in such a way that they sound extremely contemporary and expressively up-to-date. The entire project is the result of a long-standing friendship and artistic journey of two artists who, in a time of war and personal upheaval, transformed their experience into music, full of unyielding beauty, hope and strength. If you find the time and a moment of concentration, you will beautifully lose yourself in this recording.
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