Five-Storey Ensemble "Night en Face"

Country: Belarus
Genre(s): Avant Prog, Classical, Chamber
Label:  AltrOck (ALT053)
Format: CD, digital
Release date: June 27, 2017
Tracklist: 

1. Night Across The Street (4:43)
2. The Respectable Booksellers (4:39)
3. Makaò (2:10)
4. Postmonition (3:33)
5. Rearrive (5:57)
6. The Road Away From... (6:12)
7. Woods Are Worried From Boredom (6:31)
8. Jupiter (5:06)

Total Time 38:51

Line-up: 
Vitaly Appow (Rational Diet) — bassoon, soprano sax, bass guitar
Olga Podgaiskaya (Rational Diet) — piano
Olga Polakova — flute
Anastasiya Mosse — violin
Ilona Ies’ — cello
Vyacheslav Plesko — doublebass
Nikolay Siamitka (Rational Diet) — percussion (4)
Aliona Sukliyan — oboe (5)
Vladimir Pashkevich — clarinet (7)
Andrey Verishka — marimba, vibraphone (1,2,6,7)
Ekaterina Maretskaya — piano (3)

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Five-Storey Ensemble "Night en Face"

Country: Belarus
Genre(s): Avant Prog, Classical, Chamber
Label:  AltrOck (ALT053)
Format: CD, digital
Release date: June 27, 2017
Tracklist: 

1. Night Across The Street (4:43)
2. The Respectable Booksellers (4:39)
3. Makaò (2:10)
4. Postmonition (3:33)
5. Rearrive (5:57)
6. The Road Away From... (6:12)
7. Woods Are Worried From Boredom (6:31)
8. Jupiter (5:06)

Total Time 38:51

Line-up: 
Vitaly Appow (Rational Diet) — bassoon, soprano sax, bass guitar
Olga Podgaiskaya (Rational Diet) — piano
Olga Polakova — flute
Anastasiya Mosse — violin
Ilona Ies’ — cello
Vyacheslav Plesko — doublebass
Nikolay Siamitka (Rational Diet) — percussion (4)
Aliona Sukliyan — oboe (5)
Vladimir Pashkevich — clarinet (7)
Andrey Verishka — marimba, vibraphone (1,2,6,7)
Ekaterina Maretskaya — piano (3)

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The Archestra "Arches"

Country: Belarus
Sub Genre: Avant Prog, Chamber, Jazz-Rock/Fusion, Classical
Label: Soleil Mutant
Release date: March 20, 2013
Tracklist: 

1. Hymn of Another Reality 1:27
2. Birth of a Different Reality 3:29
3. Window 3:58
4. Flowering Another Reality 4:16
5. Train 7:57
6. Simplification of Another Reality 2:17
7. Triptych "Man, Penetration" 1: The First Day 7:21
8. Interlude 1:27
9. Triptych "Man, Penetration" 2: Night 3:49
10. Triptych "Man, Penetration" 3: Last Day 7:29
11. Tocsin 3:33
12. Anthem 1:01


Line-up: 
Kiryll Krystsia - violin
Nadia Krystsia - violin, cello, vocals
Evgenij Lukjanchik - sax, clarinet
Nikolay Semitko - drums
Ivan Lichko - piano

Viktoryia Bychkova - piano
Artem Frenkel - bass
Yuri Korogoda - guitar

Vitaly Appow - wind instruments
Viacheslav Plesko - contrabass



Description/Reviews: 

The Archestra is one of the 2 bands resulting from the split of Rational Diet. Septet "The Arches"- is the core of the same titled interdisciplinary project. The septet plays at the junction of such styles as Prog-rock, Rock-In-Opposition, Modern Jazz, New Chamber Music. One of the main stylistic features of the ensemble - is the duality of the musical material, so the music gets cinematographic bulge. Moreover, when the main character of the musical material is rather accessible, it interacts with the material of the second layer which was composed in sophisticated techniques of contemporary classical music such as concrete, aleatoric, sonorus or serial techniques. A company of professional musicians who have extensive experience playing in a variety of musical formations (from rock and jazz groups to symphony orchestras) came together to carry out this complex musical conception.

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3 tracks online

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Five-Storey Ensemble “Not That City"

Country: Belarus
Sub Genre: Avant Prog, Classical, Chamber
Label:  AltrOck
Release date: February 27, 2013
Tracklist: 
1 - The Harbinger
2 - Bondman's wings
3 - The Incommunication
4 – To Ringfly
5 - Disappearing road
6 - The Unpainted
7 - Yesterday Dormant
8 - The Protector
9 - Fear-Dream
10 - Amid The Smoke And Different Questions
11 - Not That City

Line-up: 
Vitaly Appow - bassoon, saxes;
Alexander But'ko - accordion;
Andrey Evdokimov - acoustic and electric guitars;
Natalja Malashkova - oboe;
Olga Podgaiskaja - piano, keyboards, vocal;
Olga Polakova - flute;
Anastasia Popova - violin;
Nikolay Semitko - drums, percussion;
Sergey Dolgushev - vocal.
Vyacheslav Plesko — doublebass
      With the assistance of:
Dmitry Maslovsky - bass guitar
Jury Korogoda — guitar electric (tracks 6,9)
Cirill Christia — violin (tracks 6,8,9)
Nadia Christia — cello (tracks 6,9,11)

Description/Reviews: 

After Rational Diet’s experience, Five-Storey Ensemble is born. Several members of the band from Belarus – they shocked the avant-prog world with At Work and On Phenomena and Existences – take part to the project. In an extended line-up, the style of Vitaly Appow and Olga Podgaiskaya, among the main RD composers, is well recognizable. So Not that city is the natural prosecution of a well established course, yet now more spontaneous, melodic, aching: the listener will be surprised by these sound alchemies, able to crystallize the moment, making it magic.

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Post Tyrannica part III
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