Son by Obiymy Doschu

72 minutes, 11 songs, 15 musicians including a string quartet, 10 sound engineers, 200 hours of recording in 7 different studios across 3 cities and more than 8 years since the debut album release. These are pretty unusual numbers for the Ukrainian rock scene, but it barely scratches the surface of how much effort, sacrifice and love for music it took for Obiymy Doschu to finish their second album “Сон” (“Dream”). It’s 72 minutes of complex, beautiful, poetic rock music with lush string arrangements, progressive rock, neoclassical, neofolk and post-rock elements, and songs perfected over a decade.

The album has been mixed by British musician and sound producer Bruce Soord, the frontman of the band The Pineapple Thief, who also worked with such grands of progressive music scene as Opeth, Anathema, Riverside, Tesseract and Blackfield.

Songs from the album tell a story about the struggle and difficulties a person faces in a modern urbanistic, globalized world, a journey from the lowest point of fall to a free flight, from death to rebirth. “Сон” (“Dream”) is a metaphor for life which you don’t fully accept, which you see as an illusion… But “After you wake from it, you will never fall asleep again”.

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Tracklist

1.	Остання мить / The Last Moment	8:36

2.	Крила / Wings	10:10

3.	Разом / Together	7:33

4.	Темна ріка / The Dark River	11:09

5.	Назустріч тиші / Towards Silence	4:10

6.	Кімната / The Room	5:13

7.	Інтерлюдія / Interlude	1:13

8.	Сон / Dream	7:12

9.	Земле моя мила / My Beloved Land	5:07

10.	Новий початок / A New Beginning	4:34

11.	Янгол / Angel	7:25

Credits

released November 17, 2017

Obiymy Doschu:
Volodymyr Agafonkin — acoustic guitar, vocals, music (1–6, 8, 9), lyrics (2, 3, 6, 8, 9)
Mykola Kryvonos — bass guitar, music (7, 10, 11), lyrics (1, 4, 11), sound producing, choir vocals (9), percussion (10)
Oleksiy Katruk — electric guitars
Olena Nesterovska — viola
Yaroslav Gladilin — drums, percussion
Yevhenii Dubovyk — keyboards, piano

Guest musicians:
Kyrylo Bondar — violin
Anastasiya Shypak — violin
Andriy Oleksandrov — cello (1, 2, 4, 5, 9, 10)
Artem Zamkov — cello (1, 3, 4, 11)
Boris Khodorkovskiy — sax (1, 10), flutes (2, 4, 6, 11)
Olga Skripova — vocals (11), back vocals
Serhiy Gryzlov — solo guitar (11)
Oleksandra Kryvonos — choir vocals (9)
Maksym Homyakevych — choir vocals (9)

Arrangements by Obiymy Doschu.
String arrangements by Volodymyr Agafonkin, Mykola Kryvonos, Olena Nesterovska.
Album art by Volodymyr Agafonkin and Mykola Kryvonos, model — Olena Nesterovska.

Recording and sound production:
Bruce Soord — mixing
Steve Kitch — mastering
Ivan Lubyanyi, Alex Burkov, Artem Bondarenko (JustStudio) — recording guitars
Vadyk Lazarev (LipkyZvukozapys) — recording vocals and electric guitars
Denys Yambor (Bambrafone) — recording strings
Vitaliy Kandyba (Different Sound) — recording drums
Igor Rabinovych (RY Records) — recording sax and flutes
Anton Blaschuk (Soundplant Studio) — recording congas

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