Kyiv-based Revenko music group issues debut CD
The Revenko musical group first appeared onstage in October 2001. The ensemble was created on the initiative of Oleksiy Revenko, who previously played in the Povilny chai [Slow tea], Stary khram [Old Temple], Piramida [Pyramid], and Klondike groups. His recent project, in addition to Revenko himself, includes Anfisa Revenko (cello), Yevhen Smaltsuha (flute), and Maryna Kuchma (violin). Revenko’s debut album is titled Felicity and includes opuses composed by the group’s leader in the last decade.
The whole album represents a dozen of chamber instrumental pieces, played by the quartet. In fact, this is a collection of stylizations to bosa-nova, jazz, romances, Latin American, medieval, or renaissance tunes. Every piece makes the listener recall something already heard, however, without creating even slight tension for him or her. Such music is quite acceptable precisely as background, which the musicians themselves do not deny. It makes no sense to look for some deep meaning in it.
In essence, Revenko Music is a certain acoustic lounge, a cocktail mixed of adoptions from various styles, though, in contrast to other fashionable cocktail groups, played on classical instruments. It is, in a sense, a part of a cozy home, absolutely bourgeois and philistine music designed to decorate the interior, like old-fashioned china elephant figurines on a chest of drawers. This is what makes it useful.
Philistines should also have their small joys. While the bourgeois is dormant, everything is calm in the country, and thereis even some order.
Very useful music. Very.
