ON PHENOMENA AND EXISTENCES

On this, the second album on which gifted composer Olga Podgaiskaja is teamed with Vitaly Appow and the Rational Diet mainstays, we find Olga exerting more of her quite considerable vision upon the group. The result is a very sophisticated avant garde/RIO leaning more and more toward the marriage of classical and folk that results in Olga's next project, the amazing FIVE-STOREY ENSEMBLE--one of my favorite groups of the 21st Century (and one that has, sadly, been rejected by the ProgArchive admissions teams.) The music here reminds me of earlier works by Hungarian band, AFTER CRYING--especially the more avant/classical explorations the band did in it's first decade. Like After Crying, I find the presence and inputs of the guitar--both acoustic and electric--the most incongruous; the music here seems to require classical, i.e. acoustic representation.

How lucky are we that Francesco Zago and the AltrOck Productions record label were supporting musics like this in the late Naughties and early Teens?