Psychedelicfolk
Reviews of Russian Contemporary, Acid,
Underground Folk page 3
CDR Review
This young voice from St.Petersburg
immediately brought me in mind one of my favourite voices, Ewa
Demarczyck from Poland (from which I highly appreciate her
"live" album from 1979). I'm one of those people who
like a lot deeply melancholic songs, sung with deep feelings
and with a poetic approach. Inspired by earlier Russian bards,
Julia writes beautiful love & friendship-songs simply
accompanied by acoustic guitar, but with a beauty it becomes a
must for acid/wyrd folk lovers. Highly recommended !
CD Review
I was pleased to hear that Julia Vorontsova
has now released a full CD. Her debut EP was more than just
promising. On the back-cover we see here a very beautiful young
girl. Her songs are very minimal but emotionally expressive.
Sometimes the guitar has some echo but nothing more. There's
included a text-book of her songs translated into English, with
some additional comments. For me her songs don't necessarily
need textual comprehension, for Julia is one of those few
voices that speak immediately to the heart, but the notes are
welcome to bring us even closer to the songs. With a certain
melancholy Julia Vorontsova succeeds with all songs to achieve
a direct effect on the listener with her singing.
"Love" from the demo still is one of those highlights
for me. I also like very much "One kitten", where
Julia imitates kitten sounds in the song. Most songs are
between 1 and three minutes long, very short, all with a
sensitivity as 'a poet from the heart'. "Grandfather"
received a slower, even more melancholic version with second
vocals. At first listen I was slightly disappointed by a couple
of tracks where she had the tendency to go out of tune with her
singing ; although the emotionality compensates, I wondered a
first how a little bit of training could have overcome this,
but then I also thought that any such accompaniment, when not
understanding Julia's essence of being, could destroy as well
the purity of her voice and of her approach to music. Although
Julia is a very young bard, she still expresses as "an old
soul" and seems to have lots of depth in her expressions,
which are definitely infused with love, from St. Petersburg.
Beautiful !
