COMP Music - ABY MC "Otsetni standarty"

Professional arrangers are, in a sense, music special operations detachment as they should meet the challenge of any difficulty and stay open-minded to all the new trends in contemporary music. “Otsetni standarty” is a rare example of the case when such people have enough time to release their own product. It doesn’t claim for popularity among, say, vocational school students or housewives. But instead, it’s a comp of ABY MC’s thoughts in audio format – the thoughts dealing with band members themselves and their favorite music. Besides, it’s kinda certain music acrobatics and the case to provoke the stable market rules.

ABY MC is generally quite unusual project for Ukrainian show-biz. They’re seldom seen in public, they ignore music hangouts and don’t reveal any interest to give concerts. In return, they espouse fanatically to the studio job and experiments with different genres.

Lately ABY MC participated in numerous interesting projects and achieved the reputation of perhaps the best remix-makers. There were works for “Tartak”, “Faktychno Sami”, “Krykhitka Zahes”, Richard, “BraviBelli” to name a few. ABY MC are the authors and arrangers of non-official anthem for Ukrainian National Olympic Team. On this record ABY MC managed to work with Natalya Mogilevs’ka, Kuz’ma Skryabin, Sashko Polozhinskiy and Fagot from “TNMK”.

“Otsetni standarty” is the 3rd CD released under the brand ABY MC. The album is somewhat crazy mix of contemporary electronic music and songs considered as jazz standards (that’s where the album title stem from). It took a very long time for the musicians to record the album – 5 years – since they constantly had to digress to something else. In spite of it, the disc is all-in-one. And due to it, the album is multicolored. It comprises the tinges of house, drum’n’bass, trip-hop. It displays the curious experiments in blending such genres-antipodes as funk and techno. However ABY MC don’t have any complexes as for the names of renowned composers which compositions are compiled on the album. And they nourish all of it with the trademark humor.

The most commercial song is presumably the closing track – “Stykha” – sort of disco-action being performed brilliantly by Olena L’vova.

The album feature a bunch of well-known musicians-guests – Sashko Polozhinskiy (rap in “Yedyne, scho ya mozhu skazaty”), Arkadiy Shilkloper- the world’s best French horn player (“Funkfurt”) and important sidemen: Vitaliy Ivanov on sax (“FEST”, Taisiya Povaliy’s band, Maria Burmaka, Mlada); Olexander Beregovskiy on percussion (“RJ Orchestra”, “Okean Elzy”, “Lama”); Valentyn Matiyuk on turntables (“Boombox”); Oleksiy Sagitov on trombone (“Vasya Club”) etc.