Label: Offen Music
Catalog#: OFFEN 003
Format: Vinyl, 12"
Country: Germany
Released: 2016
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1 Come, Angel
2 Roses For The Poet
3 By the Sea
Vladimir Ivkovic（ウラディミル・イフコビッチ）が主宰するデュッセルドルフの新興レーベルOffen Music。Rex Ilusivii、Toreschに続く第3弾、ウクライナ・リヴィウの詩人/シンガーソングライターIhor Cymbrows'kyj（イゴル・ツィンブロヴスキ）が、95年に録音、96年にKoka Recordsからリリースしたカセット・アルバム「Come Angel」収録曲より3曲のセレクション。2016年6月リリース。
It doesn't make much sense to describe the music - just click on the link below and listen. But there is a short, raw story, from Vitali Bardetski who produced the album in 1995:
"I don’t remember much when recalling what happened over 20 years ago. I met Ihor thru my older brother who was studiyng architecture at the polytechnical institute of Lviv. I believe Ihor was studying construction or maybe architecture too. I was much younger than Ihor and already managed a few pop artists. I used to spend most of the time in Berlin. Once my bro played me a demo tape by Ihor, and i got really excited and asked brother to introduce me to him. I proposed to go to a studio. At that time there were probably only 2 studios in Lviv. We recorded everything in a single day, all 100% live, no edits, nothing. Just some crazy delay - Ihor liked it sounding a bit "dubby“. The whole session was a pure magic. I just told our engineer "touch nothing now and relax". "Come Angel" - we recorded it twice as there was a malfunction of a tape recorder. I believe I paid something like 100 US$ for everything. That was actually a lot - my rent for a 1 room apartment in the very center was around 25 bucks a month. First we released it ourselves on cassettes with b&w sleeves copied on xerox. I met a crazy guy in Berlin (Gogo was his nickname) He was already working with some ex East Block artists and offered a mini tour in Berlin and the area around it. We came to Berlin and played a few gigs, really strange venues, mainly bars in squats, but it was lots of fun. I remember a couple of young ladies literally loosing conscience along with Ihor's high frequencies. Financially that was of course a flop. We had been cleaning windows a few days to buy return tickets…" ▲
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[related] Untitled from va "Music The World Does Not See" (Nefryt, 2000)
