Band:	Kayno Yesno Slonce
Album:	Чакрък
Style:
Release date:	2004
A review by:	Herzebeth

01. Задушница
02. На Заник
03. Константинопол
04. Борнона
05. Кукуд

This CD is one of the most bizarre items I've received in my years as a reviewer, Kayno Yesno Slonce like a bright shining sun In ancient Bulgarian language, is a dark ambient musical piece surrounded by grim atmospheres and chilling choirs that will make you either love or hate this particular kind of music.

The album is actually hard to digest; it's not the usual dark ambient material with cool melodies and catchy tones, this is more about creating new layers and different type of environments, even though the main vein of the music is somehow folk oriented, the tracks will flow in different ways through your stereo, the atmospheres change from really dark to very bright in just a glimpse.

Veselin Mitov is the author of this surreal kind of dark ambient, he manages to produce soft lines in the background with a synthesizer, you'll hear a lot of effects like wind, trees screaming, etc. then he also uses bagpipes to add power to the tracks. The third track is a great example, the wind instrument sounds really powerful, almost like a call for help, and the background keeps a shivering feeling all over the song, everything changes in the fifth minute when the choirs appear just to close this tune in a really odd yet beautiful way; that's more o less the structure of the songs resting in this record.

As in almost every dark ambient album, ×àêðúê has a great production, all the layers sound loud and clear, and the overall music never drowns or blurs by any means. So in the end, it's kind of difficult to tell this CD will be worshiped by many, because this kind of art is actually quite complex for most people, so I really think those followers of the avant-garde music should really give this album a chance, just please remember to be as open-minded as you can.