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amity62

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Topic: Great band from Ukraine
Posted: March 28 2012 at 11:57

From debut album -ELEGIA (2009)

Edited by amity62 - March 28 2012 at 12:02

yam yam

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Posted: March 28 2012 at 13:09

This is the debut album of Ukrainian Gothic Progressive Neo-Folk band 'Обійми Дощу' - aka 'Obiymy Doschu' (Hugs of Rain) from Kiev. Acoustic guitar with great orchestration accompanied by sad lyrics and emotional vocals by Volodymyr Agafonkin. Great music for a rainy autumn day!

Recording, mixing and mastering were performed by Oleksiy “Shaddar” Romanchenko at Blacklight Studio in Kiev, February – August 2009. Due to the complexity of the material and the amount of recording equipment required it took over 200 hours of work in the studio.

Released on August 29th 2009 online as a free download - You can get it from the band's website: http://rain.in.ua/en.html as a zip archive (mp3 ~245vbr, 103M)

Or listen to samples at myspace: http://www.myspace.com/obiymydoschu.

Tracklist (Ukrainian):
1. Під Хмарами (5:23)
2. Мертве Дерево і вітер (7:05)
3. Зоренько Моя (4:18)
4. Її душі зів'ялі Квіти(7:36)
5. Згасаюча Осінь (8:23)
6. Зимова Елегія (10:04)
7. Самотні Ночі (5:42)
8. Дорогою Вічності (7:06)

Or the English equivalent:

1. Pid Hmaramy (5:23)
2. Mertve Derevo I Viter (7:05)
3. Zorenko Moya (4:18)
4. Yiyi Dushi Zivyali Kvity (7:36)
5. Zhasayucha Osin (8:23)
6. Zymova Elehia (10:04)
7. Samotni Nochi (5:42)
8. Dorohoyu Vichnosti (7:06)

Band:

- Volodymyr Agafonkin / vocals, acoustic guitar
- Oleksiy Katruk / electric guitar
- Mykola Kryvonos / bass guitar, recorder
- Serhiy Dumler / drums, percussion
- Maria Kurbatova / keyboards
- Olena Nesterovska / viola

with
- Olexandra Vydrya / violin
- Hanna Kryvonos / backing vocals

Music by Volodymyr Agafonkin.
Lyrics by Volodymyr Agafonkin (1–7), Mykola Kryvonos (8).
Arrangements by Obiymy Doschu.

There was also a single released in 2010:

You can download the above video and the mp3 files as a single zip file here: http://rain.in.ua/svitanok/en.html

Enjoy, and spread the word about this band, they are certainly worth it!

Edited by yam yam - March 28 2012 at 13:22

amity62

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Posted: March 29 2012 at 02:49

yam yam, thanks a lot for add info about group, i hope you will see them in England Smile

and you may see info here http://vk.com/obiymydoschu

Bosh66

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Posted: March 29 2012 at 04:18

Nice album indeed, but isn't it already here under Crossover?

http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=33661

You can also pick up the CD at a reasonable cost at www.caerllysimusic.co.uk/

Best regards.

yam yam

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Posted: March 29 2012 at 04:45

Bosh66 wrote:

Nice album indeed, but isn't it already here under Crossover?

http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=33661

Indeed it is!! - Well spotted!

There were two previous threads in the forums for them too:

http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=65676 (This forum, March 2010)
http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=60919 (Get The Word Out, August 2009)

So engrossed was I with my attempts to find out who they actually were from the o.p., I never even thought to do a search on here for them!

Edit: They had a tough time getting here - spent a long time being kicked around in Prog Metal before a narrow 3-2 verdict finally got them added into Crossover: http://progfreak.com/Obiymy-Doschu-52506.html?path=pa/recent.

As an additional thought - maybe admin (or Andrey himself) would like to edit the topic title to include the name of the band as it appears in our database? The bio we have for them at the moment doesn't give a lot of info, and this thread would show in the list of forum topics on their page if the title were amended accordingly.

Edited by yam yam - March 29 2012 at 05:34

amity62

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Posted: April 02 2012 at 07:00

DVD "live in Kiev " (2010) here:
http://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2785947

Edited by amity62 - April 03 2012 at 07:39

Andy Webb