Are you in a hurry ? Such things happen. In this case, you can download and stream this release legally and for free, from Jamendo thanks to the as great as usual AF Music label.
Beware ! There's something heavy here, something that you cannot handle. Beware ! Think twice before, cause once you hear this album, the game is over for you, this album got you. It is an album recorded in live conditions, one track recording, no overdubs, first take is the good take, oh, well, I like a lot this approach of music. It is a collection of various Shino songs, and also a few Russian bands' covers, including some from legendary punk band Grazhdanskaya Oborona (see wikipedia).
This album is open licensed, you can make copies for your friends. Cause, hey, Shino was nice enough to take care of the job of asking, for covers, the grant to open-license his versions of the songs, just for you to be able to make copies for your friends, so be thankful and share widely !
Because this album is huge. I added it to my playlist, launched random play, listened to a few songs... Stopped the random mode, started to listen to it in the right order... And started to write this paper. Because, first I already knew that it was a gem, and then, because this issuing is quite big news in history of music and I want to live report the mood that exhaust from it, while listening to it.
Oh yes this is a moody album. A great, monumental moody album. It blows cool and hot air alternatively, while staying in the meanwhile very coherent - yes there's a real approach of music as an art discipline here, and the approach chosen is of the kind I like the best.
No compromises here, you got, I guess, someone who has an high opinion of the value of music by itself, and he gives us his own vision.
And once you shared this vision, you'll want to share it with other people, to take turn.
The production is just perfect. Subtle and raw, a great achievement in the "honest" side of nowadays music makers. Precise and powerfull basses, sharp high frequencies, a presence of the guitar and the voice which, with Shino great talent to modulate power, will make you think he's actually in front of you, with his guitar, singing. Oh yeah you'll feel bloody close. Shino tries to talk from heart to heart, and I say beware, you cannot handle this.
Be prepared to be haunted.
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