The
debut album of a Moscow neoclassical band is now available on CD (originally
it was released on MC only). With a bonus track!
On this page you can read some CD
reviews and listen to a couple of tracks from the album in MP3.
You can order the CD on our distribution page.
CAPRICE "Mirror" Reviews
A couple of tracks from the album in MP3
CAPRICE "Mirror"
Reviews
The debut album of a Moscow band called Caprice, "Mirror", was first released on MC only, on the expenses of the musicians themselves; only lately they made the CD version with one bonus track ("I Want to Wait"). Frankly speaking, the content of this album cannot be called "elvenmusic", though there are some fragments of it featuring small instrumentals like "Interlude" and "Waltz". The musical material of this CD is much more spooky and hopeless than the one of the next album, "Songs of Innocence and Experience", and only short and rare embeddings of airy instrumentals make it a little bit less depressive.
In contrast to its descendant, whose lyrics belonged to the pen of William Blake, all lyrics and music of "Mirror" were written by Anton, and are in Russian. Right here I'd like to mention that the Russian language still doesn't suit the music of the kind, except some rare cases. And although the wonderful voice of Inna Brejestovskaya dramatically conveys all feeling and emotions to the listener, the Russian lyrics sounds clumsy and not to the point, although this could be excused to the debut album.
In general, this is a very worthy album: spooky neoclassical arrangements, strong vocals, and evident mastery of the eight musicians promise good impressions, and even some shortcomings don't spoil the general atmosphere. Strongly recommended to all lovers of serious spooky music.
Sergey Merenkov
Russian Gothic Project
A couple of tracks from the album in MP3
Interlude
(03:06)
Intro
(03:11)
(c) 1999 Russian Gothic Project
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