What to listen to in July

Tori Eimos once said that when she introduced the representatives of her label with the third album, the minimalist piano “Boys for Pele” , he was met as sour physiognomies as possible: “Only a dude from the classics department.” Listening to the new album of Ksenia Fedorova, the second one in a year, you feel like a dude from the classics department - adjusted for the fact that the dude from the classics department would probably have more knowledge to talk about such music. The record is based on a cycle of poems written by Xenia several years ago in the imitation of Japanese poetry; In it, a lyrical heroine, having parted with a young man, turns into a bird. However, their unincenting, floating rhythm is much more important in these texts - musical accompaniment, mainly consisting of one piano, but periodically quite effectively growing other sounds (whistles, violins, bass, digger, noise, electronic bits) tries to respond to this variable, often with difficulty with difficulty perceptible rhythmics and acquires as a result of amazer A sparse, mysterious character. Here, fascinating, ghostly songs, based on the techniques of academic, then avant -garde, then folklore music, but do not fit into the framework of any of them - rather, Fedorova comes up with an individual, terribly interesting and incredibly beautiful musical language. To some extent, the "Bird Songs" can be considered the back of her recent album "Waves" . There were improvisational plays, here, on the contrary, complete composer control is realized, but the effect is still similar: as if you are sitting in thickening twilight on the shore and listen to how the waves roll - unevenly, irregularly, but bewitching.