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Dear All!
The Er.J.Orchestra's "On The Hill Again" Special CD+DVD edition is finally out in April 2007. This is an extended and enlarged re-issue of a 2002 single audio album. The set includes two disks now: "On The Hill Again" remastered full CD version with two additional tracks, and "On The Hill Again Years" DVD which consists of four LIVE tracks video work and extra material - "Blissful Island" film (put on Er.J.Orchestra's music), "The Third Angel" slide show (put on Er.J.Orchestra's music), Interviews and Photo Gallery. There are also prose fragments of "Book Of Books" by Alexei Alexandrov in a booklet illustrated by Alexander Brodsky and Ilia Utkin.
"On The Hill Again" (full CD version: remastered) is a slightly re-edited repeating of a 2002 version with two previously unreleased tracks "Dawn" and "Ayo Valley". The video work on DVD is filmed and directed by Alexander Dirdovsky and overdubbed on Er.J.Orchestra's LIVE Show, performed at Zoloti Vorota Concert Hall 24 May 2002, Kiev, Ukraine. This video also contains a material filmed by Alexander Dirdovsky in Lithuania: the paintings of Churlenis, sculptures of Vilius Orvidas Gabrielius; installations and landscapes of Lithuania and Ukraine, Er.J.Orchestra's video and photo archives.
"On The Hill Again" Special CD+DVD edition is released by Caravan Records (Dmitry KhovKhun - the Head of the company, Vasyliy Doroschuk - art-manager).
Engineered by Arkady Vikhorev at ArkadiA Studio.
Di-Gi pack designed by Alexander Dirdovsky and Vyacheslav Krishtofovich.
More detailed information see in a booklet.
Produced by
A.Alexandrov,
Oakman and A.Vikhorev
19 November 2006, Kiev's Palace of Sports:
the members of Er. J.Orchestra Valery Koshman - guitar, Vladimir Sorochenko - bass, Viktor Krisko - violin, Alexei Alexandrov - flutes together with Oakman - vocal, music, lyrics, Vladimir Pysmenny - guitar, Usein Bekirov - keys and Sergey Jakson - drums are to take part in a new musical project called OAKMAN supporting the legendary MANFRED MANN'S EARTH BAND.
The very first Er.J.Orchestra's album GABRIELIUS has been reissued now by Caravan Records, digitally re-mastered in a new sleeve designed DJ-pack.
Caravan Records now are working on 2CD DJ-pack ON THE HILL AGAIN reissue containing CD with previously unreleased tracks plus DVD with LIVE shows performed over 2001-2002.
ER.J.ORCHESTRA
was established in 1989 in Kiev (Ukraine). The present band staff, finally
completed in 1992, predominantly perform music of acoustic nature based
on traditions of Slavonic melos, euro-american and oriental music. While
refusing the direct citing, they prefer their individual sensation or
their subjective conception on "musical source" to pure authenticity.
In original pieces one may follow the junction of ethnic, jazz and academic
sounding . The pieces are also characterized by wide using of solo instruments,
which frequently replace each other, processing the special peculiar
emotional colours and shades of meaning. In other words, besides the
general musical idea, the pieces possess an idea of each separate instrument
which, if it can be expressed like that, "plays itself'.
Most of the musical critics are inclined to characterize the general
style and aesthetic orientation of ER.J.ORCHESTRA creation as WORLD
MUSIC. This, probably, explains the main credo of the BAND - music without
boundaries.
"Being aside from the various pop-conveyors, ER.J.ORCHESTRA keeps
doing genuine art".
("The dance with the unicorn" in Dom Kino" by A. Yevtushenko;
"Music Courier", November 1992, #7)
"We see on stage really strong professional band which has its
own individual sound combined with lucid and harmonious spiritual pyramid.
And this means that they stepped onto period of maturity, consideration
and confidence.
One of the most distinguishing feature of ER.J.ORCHESTRA is that everyone
is a true personality and within the boundaries of common play there
is enough space for everybody"... ("Pyramid of Er.J.Orchestra"
or "Tea Ceremony" forever" by A. Yevtushenko; "AUT"
#8,1994)
"There is a triad LIFE-LOVE-DEATH. And Love, being in-between Life
and Death, derives its strength from both sources. We try to find this
triad in art. Subject of our love is our audience. Therefore, the important
moment for us is atmosphere, in which, as well as in intimate relations,
you are influenced by smells, sounds - by everything. Complete devaluation
of Spirit is impending over us. People are so constrained, self-concentrated.
And we are trying to plunge them into the world of music and light where
they would have an opportunity to sense another reality - the reality
which is delicate, harmonious, close to the nature.
Music is streaming from everywhere. There is no more delight than turning
stones, trees, walls into the Music.
(A. Dirdovsky, "Phonograph" #138, October 9,1991)
