CD Details

CHERDAK

OLIVE MESS
2008 , LATVIA - EURO 13.00

Label: MELLOW RECORDS

ALBUM REVIEW
Cherdak is the second album by Olive Mess, which is very close stylistically to the first one, Gramercy. Cherdak include 4 rather long tracks, one of which is instrumental. In this album, again, you can hear influence of the classical, baroque, renaissance and modern academic music. The sound became more dense with more drive. The keyboards play now bigger role in the sound. Instead of soprano of Ilze Paegle, on the second album, you can hear barriton of Maris Jekabsons, who sings in the classical (opera) style. Maris have made available for the band, to use in their music, such a great instruments like bagpipes, which you can hear in Beowulf. In this album, again you can hear the beautiful sound of archlute, and this is what is giving some similarity with the early baroque operas.