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Live at the Babooinumfest #17

by Fair Wind Pleases

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"A bit rough but pretty charming their stage is. They say the album "Live At The Babooinumfest #17" was recorded as their fourth opus (and third live album) at the Prog festival in June 2022. Regardless of saying, it's been tough for all of us to live in an ordinary manner but we can notice they have been active on stage for the audience and also for themselves via the creation. This album consists of smooth, mystic melody lines filled with their original chamber-musical vision. It sounds like they gently talk to the audience with a couple of instruments. Namely their melody lines and rhythmic bases are complicated and eccentric but at the same time it's easy to find the audience would not feel such a complexity nor eccentricity.
This texture can be heard for example through the second track "Let It Shine" featuring Ivan's beautiful but dynamic piano storytelling. Slightly tribal, oriental atmosphere in "Wavering" reminds us that some mixed emotion might be in their inner mind, and we can feel the mutual understanding with them on and in front of the stage.

In conclusion, let me say their sincere and sensitive performance on the stage should relieve and encourage us under such an unstable (mentally, economically, and diplomatically) situation and with uneasiness in unfavourable development all over the world."

(c) DamoXt7942
www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=2846166

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"Here we have the latest release from the trio of Yury Khomonenko (drums and percussion), Ivan Rozmainsky (synth piano) and AndRey Stefinoff (clarinet). As can be seen from the title, this was recorded at the last Babooinum festival held in Saint Petersburg, on June 22nd, 2022. I have known Ivan for years due to the band Roz Vitalis, and over the years he has also been working with other musicians, taking music in different directions and here he describes the music being delivered as chamber prog - clarinet/piano/drums-based music - with the spirit of creativity, improvisational energy, unpredictable developments, unanticipated turns and twists, strange modes and chords and odd time signatures.
None of the music on this album is available elsewhere, but that is probably as for the most part this sounds completely improvised. Although Ivan normally takes the melodic lead in Roz Vitalis, here his role is to set up repeated patterns which then allow Yury to come in underneath and find his spot with AndRey taking the lead with long fluid melodies. There are certain sections that sound more as if they have been charted, but for the most part this is eclectic avant garde music which is somehow bringing together modern classical, jazz and progressive rock. There are times when they come together in passages of sheer brilliance and beauty, and others where there is a little more of a struggle as together, they look for the right direction, but they always find a way forward. This is not music to ever be played in the background but instead needs to be on headphones when the listener has the time to be able to pay close attention and get inside the minds of the musicians and understand what they are attempting to achieve.

While the band have made this album available free of charge to both listen to and download, people can also make a contribution if they wish and all monies raised will go towards the financial support of Ukrainian refugees living in Hamburg, Germany."

(c) Kev Rowland
www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=2928531

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"В отличие от самой давней группы петербуржца Ивана Розмаинского Roz Vitalis его другой проект Fair Wind Pleases сравнительно молод. И хотя Fair Wind Pleases существует только с начала 2020 года, представляемый сегодня альбом – уже четвертый в дискографии группы. Он же – третий концертный альбом Fair Wind Pleases. Как понятно из названия, записан он был на традиционном для Питера фестивале прог-музыки Babooinumfest, проводившимся в июне этого года уже в 17-й раз усилиями его организатора Сергея Горчанинова.

На Live at the Babooinumfest #17 ансамбль представлен в том же составе, что и предыдущий альбом Jump into Autumn (2021), тоже концертник и единственный альбом Fair Wind Pleases, о котором наш сайт не рассказывал. Это трио, где вместе с Иваном Розмаинским, игравшим в тот вечер на фортепьянном синтезаторе, на сцену вышли кларнетист Андрей Стефинов и ударник Юрий Хомоненко. Все трое запечатлены на обложке альбома, которой группа обязана Андрею Стефинову.

Fair Wind Pleases предложил посетителям Babooinumfest программу, составленную только из новых композиций. В альбоме их семь, считая две части Journey into the Unknown Summer, представленные в альбоме первым и последним треком. Но скажу откровенно, слушая альбом, я, конечно, фиксировал вполне заслуженные аплодисменты публики в конце каждого трека, но всю программу ощутил, как единое целое. Почему? А дело в том, что вся она – как светлый и теплый луч, согревающий сердце и помогающий ему немного оттаять.

…Когда-то Владимир Маяковский написал такие строки: «Для веселия планета наша мало оборудована». Наверное, многие, как и я, особенно остро почувствовали это после 24 февраля. Поселившиеся внутри боль и тревога с той поры не оставляют. Музыка Fair Wind Pleases помогла ее хотя бы ненадолго притупить. Я не назову ее «веселой», отнюдь, она именно светлая. Инструмент Розмаинского, несмотря на электронное происхождение, больше всего мне напомнил по звучанию клавесин и, соответственно, его линия в пьесах этой программы мне показалась нео-барочной. Кларнет Стефинова, изощренно вездесущий, гибкий, парадоксальный, отсылает прежде всего к джазу с его импровизационным началом, причем джазу порой весьма авангардному. Наконец, максимально чуткие к своим партнерам ударные Хомоненко не дают забыть о том, что в сумме мы имеем дело все же с очень изящным, рафинированным вариантом прог-рока. Прекрасная работа, с которой музыкантов можно только поздравить.

Наконец, не могу не упомянуть об еще одной детали этого релиза. Альбом можно скачивать на bandcamp группы бесплатно: fairwindpleases.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-the-babooinumfest-17. Но вы можете внести любые суммы, которые коллектив собирается перевести одной из семей украинских беженцев в Гамбурге. No comments."

(с) Леонид Аускерн
jazzquad.ru/index.pl?act=PRODUCT&id=6293#

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released September 5, 2022

"Live at the Babooinumfest #17" is both the 4th release by Fair Wind Pleases and the 3rd live album of the band! It was recorded on June 12, 2022, at the Prog Festival organized by Sergey Gorchaninov (who is famous promoter and musician). The album includes only newest stuff!

The album is available for free downloading! However, you can pay for it, and all payments will go to the financial support of one of the families of Ukrainian refugees living in Hamburg, Germany.

lineup

Yury Khomonenko - drums and percussion
Ivan Rozmainsky - synth piano
AndRey Stefinoff - clarinet, artwork

with thanks to

Andrey Burtsev - recording
Sergey Gorchaninov - organizational support
Sasha Shifter - mixing, mastering

Fair Wind Pleases is a band formed at the beginning of 2020 in St. Petersburg and performing non-trivial instrumental music at the junction of neoclassical, avant-garde, ambient, progressive, post-jazz, chamber music, modern creative and other genres. In the sound of the group, the winds play the most important role, and its main goals are to generate positive energy and bring the spiritual dimension to everyday life. All these aspects are, to one degree or another, reflected in the name of the ensemble.

We hope that you will feel warmth and charm of the concert musical energy! If you like chamber prog with unpredictable developments, unanticipated twists and turns, strange chords and odd time signatures, this can be your cup of tea!

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Fair Wind Pleases is a band formed at the beginning of 2020 and performing non-trivial instrumental music at the junction of neoclassical, avantprog, avant-garde, ambient, progressive, post-jazz, chamber music, modern creative and other genres.

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