"I advise you to listen to this album, because even today the hurdy-gurdy remains a unique instrument with a special sound, her voice - a great guide to the imagination and inner worlds. The history of the polyphonic wheel lyre stetches back for about a thousand years - and thus, in this music live medieval castles and roving musicians, and the air is clean, which is so lacking in our modern cities.

Not every player is able to breathe life into old instruments, let them sound bright, deeply, to sparkle and sing. Olexa Kabanov though is undoubtedly capable. He plays traditional tunes that sound as if they have not been played for hundreds of years but they are alive, close, and warm. There is such a feeling as if the melody and you yourself have gone beyond the confines of this time - and no one is getting older, nothing disappears, while the music pulls you back.

The polyphonic wheel lyre played by Olexa Kabanov has become versatile orchaestral instrument- really enriched. I think you will appreciate the depth of her voice, the grace of shades - and want to know more..."

1. Metelitza
2. Old Castle
3. Mystery
4. Shepherd
5. Appeal
6. Ladkanka
7. Irish Hymn
8. Marsh
9. Sonet
10. Dance
11. Silva Rerum
12. Dale of Muses
13. Times Blowing
14. Sarasvati

Listen to: the entire album.

Release date: 12/15/2012
Olexa Kabanov lives in Kiev Ukraine

Tagged as: World, Folk, World Influenced

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