Krobak (Ukraine)

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   Review for KROBAK ( New Track Added ) 
Igor Sidorenko :
-guitar
-drums
-computer effected imagery
-heart, soul, moods

1. They`re All Shot This Winter
2. Album`s Preview
3. Fried Bull`s Blues
4. Three Tired Hands

Almost  trance inducing minimulistic explorations and dreamy images. Suggestive of absence, emptiness, longing and tragedy, even if these cleverly thought out passages never resolve themselves they are constructed over texturized canvasses which build and mesmerize. There are excursions into the chaotic but control constantly prevails and all is restored with reassuring conclusions as if rescued by an omniscient guardian. Fried Bull`s Blues is perhaps the most devious piece on this sampler which is demonstrative of this, with a frantic threatening crescendo which builds up and explodes into brief dramatic choas which almost reaches heavy metal proportions but then abruptly returns to calmity. 

Despite the obvious melancholic intentions, the pieces are nevertheless actually very soothing as if to remove the strife and despair that they almost seemingly seek to depict. Adventurous but not as dangerous as some ambient music. After experiencing these short compositions it`s like returning refreshed from another peaceful region of ones consciousness where reality is compressed and rationalized. The music has a lot of depth and understatement with expert use of minimilistic tools and can be interpreted in many ways. It`s going to be interesting to hear the first full length album by this very promising one-mind band which hopefully will occur in the not too distant future. 4 out of 5 stars.