"Calendar" - "River of Gods"

Group "Calendar" - one of the most striking phenomena of the musical movement at the turn of the centuries, the paradoxically united Russian traditions, customs and everywhere ponaderganny Celtic mysticism and magic. CD. "Crossroads Records", 2010. In the literature, this is manifested in the creation of plump novels in the genre of "Russian Fantasy," a painting - to numerous paintings of bearded heroes, to write the old men, but in the music - loose keltoobraznyh groups. Many of them are easily combined in Setlist Irish jigs and Russian songs. And then arrived in time and the ideological basis for these mixtures. "Calendar" - "River of Gods" "River of Gods" - the third studio album, "Calendar", which brought together more than impressive composition. Here and famous folk ascetic Eugene (Lada) Cherkasov and leader of the "host Sydow" Yuri Andreychuk and keyboardist Anton Elkin (ex-"naive") and bassist Nikita Popov (ex «Pep-See"), and the ideologue of "forbs "Paul Davidovich. Why, as a guest guitarist in one of the songs Sergei Kalugin was the "Righteous orgies!" Ideology and the semantic content of the songs "Calendar" still for them, "Velegroy" Grashina - she is the author of music and words to all the songs on the album, with the exception of the Russian folk song "Oreshene." Rock Fantasy "calendar" was to include a wealth of polyphony (work choirmaster Alexander Saltykov), acoustic folk-rock as the foundation, and the treatment in songs all the ghosts that only you can remember. Submission does not have a variety of songs, but they all played hard and well to create the artificial world of the folk elements from different countries in North and Western Europe again. Of course, every other word in the texts written with a capital letter, for more reliability. Of course, the hero of the songs, the problem of space relate to, at least, scale: the blessing of the gods I built the house again, went a for a welcome home that was - was up would love my clan, at the behest of forces fire the sunset, and the day I met luminaries eclipse - you. In printed form, it looks quite Graphomania. But effectively under the toms, bells, violin, cello, guitar and other an atmosphere of mystical fantasy television series with unexpected splashes of vocalizations in the spirit of the Russian and Irish Folksongs creates (the theme from Borodin's opera "Prince Igor" adequately woven) . Artificial folk from the "Calendar" synthesized various traditional cultures and issues to the surface stilted meaningful message for fans of the fantasy genre. Track listing "Calendar" - "River of Gods": 1 Pechal2 Oh daleko3Reka4 Oreshene5Ballada6 daleko7Samayn8 Going Somewhere face mirov9 Drakony10 Falcon Not to mention that many of the polyphony in the trail against the "Calendar" played - hard despite the obvious efforts Saltykov, voice not merge, vocalists push down the stairs, heard wrong in almost every track. This studio recording! In these songs, where choral pieces are missing or has been removed from the foreground, the musical fabric is much more professional - pretty strong instrumentalists, singers sing and clean alone. The album "River of Gods" marks a new stage in the development of a "Calendar". Arrangements have been much wiser treatment of Russian folklore, accurate, and send a single group in a sufficiently strong form crystallizes. However, musicians still address a small layer of the creativity of the fans of the genre "Fantasy". This weakness or strength - time will tell. Vadim Ponomarev, "News Showbiz NEWSmusic.ru»