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A lovely space ambient album... Bluebells and Recurring Dreams are my favorites.
Nice, relaxed, effortless piano improvisations. There is a lot of natural and fresh beauty of music here, flowing gently from the player to the listener.
Haha Jane Birkin is getting some serious modern competition, and it was a high time for that too! :-) Nice composition and production for a sensual nightclub/bedroom atmosphere. Daisylis's voice is perhaps mixed unnecessarily high as this eats away the nice nuances of the orchestration and makes the erotic aspect perhaps a bit too 'pushy'. As a producer I might even recommend more experimental approach to the processing of the voice so that it would mix & intervene more organically with the music. Anyway, a nice track that made me smile. :-)
Congratulations to Cvijaxo for producing what must be one of the most interesting and inspired concept albums of 2009!
It is a real pleasure to hear music that has some serious artistic and philosophical ambitions behind it, especially when the implementation has been so successful. Ivan and Mary are doing a great job as contributors, and Cvijaxo's own musical and production work is excellent. The narrative elements remind me of some of the more ambitious progressive projects from the 70s (e.g. Rick Wakeman's Journey to the Centre of the Earth) – but in this modern age you can build with a computer just as interesting soundscapes as you could do then with a symphony orchestra.
The album is full of ideas and nice production detail, being a very visual story and adventure. This kind of works take a lot of time and mental investment from the producer, and I can say that the time has been well spent. The album is also another proof of how potent the free music scene has become in artistic terms. The commercial labels operating in their short attention span FM playlist world would have a high threshold to publish an album like this even from a well-known artist. What was possible in the commercial music world in the 1970s is no more possible – the most fertile ground for serious artistic creation has already moved over to the free music scene.
A well-produced peaceful chillout track. Nothing musically intriguing or ambitious there, just for easy relaxation, but I suppose this was the purpose, and the track serves that purpose well.
A great ambient album, a lot of musical creativity and imagination for the sound has been put onto these tracks. The beat keeps the first track more on the surface but from track 2 onwards the submarine starts a serious dive into deeper waters. The long last track is simply brilliant, deep and curious at the same time. Sound & production are first class, and the sampled nature sounds work very well. It is uplifting to hear this good ambient, bravo to the artist and big thanks for sharing it!
Pleasant 70s-like space/cinema sound and feel with fittingly stylish and dramatic spoken material. Would be nice to have an English translation of the lyrics/poetry available. Good work!
Excellent soundtracks, good compositions with professionally made and emotionally capturing orchestrations. A must-hear for the friends of the genre.
A dark and serious personal work with a considerable charge of Weltschmerz in it, emphasized with painful, naked vocals and fitting sound effects. This musically talented young artist deliberately leaves this time away the musical playfulness that we have heard on his previous albums but delivers instead a cold menu of darker emotional statements or declarations with minimal entertainment value and just a hint of humour. Not an album for everybody, but at the same time in its dark, non-compromising nature a good indication of an artist making his music out of deeper, non-calculating inner motivations which is a healthy foundation for serious art.
What a lovely concerto this is... smart, creative and interesting all the way, reminding me of Shostakovich in its swift movements and humour. The electronic implementation is not bad at all, but a classical work of this caliber and depth would really deserve to recorded with a real orchestra playing it. Truly well done, thanks and congratulations!
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