Digital Manuscript Store

 This CD contains 10 songs recorded in 2003 and 3 songs from 1997. CD includes as well bonus materials; 8 tracks in MP3 format specially recorded for the 2004 year Russian blockbuster movie "Night watch" (Nochnoy Dozor) and also has it a demo video clip telling us about Drum Ecstasy band.

 Drum Ecstasy is a "live"; band that plays heavy dance music using various bass guitar sounds, supported by a massive background of three and more drummers. In individual compositions Bosch electric drills and saws noises and sound effects are used. In average Drum Ecstasy performance lasts 40-90 minutes, often slides and videos are used. There is also another variant of sounding (European percussion instruments + industrial percussion). This variant is often used during shows and presentations.

 Ihar is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, and producer making quirky, adventurous music that is as comfortingly familiar as it is disarmingly strange. His new album — "Soliky sonyka" (2005) combine instruments with lo-fi electronics.
 This record offers colorful, organic instrumental textures, lush harmonies, and skillful songs-writing with only a touch of electronics. Released by Belarus (Grapes records), "Soliky sonyka" works on many levels; its smooth pop surface gives way to richness of detail that invites listening and re-listening. Ihar plays all of the instruments on the record himself: guitars, piano, drums, matumbass, vocals, melodicus, and many more.

 Ihar's electronic music -- is extremely harmonious where fine melodies meet sympathetic rhythms. Ihar's deep sensitivity just breaks through his music. Armed with a portable recorder, he has worked outside, in a grass, in the open air, playing and recording acoustic guitars and a voice in the woods or rhythms in the country. Sometimes the recording is minimalist and simple as some fingers snapping on a wood - but he also recorded; keyboards, melodicas, flutes, tumbass, xylotones, bala-bala-voices and harps. The result is a magnificent collection of acoustic and electronic pop with a touch of folk!