Sergey Starostin's Vocal Family

Kameralna, medytacyjna, pełna skupienia płyta legendy rosyjskiego poszukującego folku. Starostinowi towarzyszą wokalistki: Sonia Iovkova, Tatiana Douparinova, Youlia Koleva, Nadia Vladimirova. Materiał zarejestrowano w zabytkowym kościele w Edynburgu w sierpniu 1999.

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"Music comes closest to meditation. Music is a way towards meditation and the most beautiful way." (Osho) These words of the Indian master I remember today, when the album "JOURNEY" is ready to meet the public. This music can bring you into the peace, peace for your soul." The Vocal Family" invites us to a celebration of sadness. M. Alperin

MUSIC TO 'BE' IN

Journey is not an ordinary collection of songs. It consists of just one composition, in which Russian and Bulgarian traditions are blended together in a surprising new way. Musical director Mikhail Alperin combined four folksongs from both Russia and Bulgaria, which each have their own story to tell. Still, together they sound as one.

Two of the folk songs ('Travelling Tartars' from Russia, and 'I Was Fooling The Turkish' from Bulgaria) form the main theme of this 35-minute composition. They are repeated throughout. The repetition combined with the intense sound of both Russian vocalist Sergey Starostin and four Bulgarian female vocalists gives Journey a strong, meditative quality. It is folk music in it's most pure form - no instruments, just deeply felt stories being told.

The result is not just music to listen to, it is music to 'be' in. Mikhail Alperin explains: "When you listen to these songs they slowly become part of your whole being. The repetition pulls you into the music. I think all folk music in the world has this strong, meditative base. It has to do with the basic needs of folk people. They have a strong connection with nature. Meditation in the form of prayer - for sun or rain - is part of peasant life. Singing repetitive songs also .......
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