1. Intro
2. Boginya (Goddess)
3. Bezdna (Abyss)
4. Aromat (Aroma)
5. Tajny Izlom (The Fissure of Enigma)
6. Lilija (Lily)
7. Noch. Teni I Vremya (Night. Shadows & Time)
8. Sad (Garden)

There's the first & opening part of the "Sad" (Garden) trilogy.

This album is named "Sad: Zvery, Oblaka I Echo Ritualov" (in Russian — " The Garden: Beasts, Clouds and Echo Of The Rituals") and it's sound can be described as "psychodelic folk rock" with beautiful Russian texts. The music of Biblioteka Prospero is totally acoustic, it sounds very distinctive and dramatic, sometimes even abrasive. A lot of different simple, but vintage acoustic instruments were used for recording: acoustic guitars with nylon and steel strings, pianos, violin, flutes, Ukrainian wooden flutes, various percussions made of iron, wood or even glass…In other hand, the electronic devices as soft-generator in one track and some fx-modules were present too, but their presence on record is minimal and strictly limited. This CD sounds simple, transparent and powerfull at the same time, it was created in the best Ukrainian Studio Svoboda in Kiev.

But, the genre of this record is still far away from sweet and nice sound of modern "neo-folk" records, so popular in Ukraine today. Biblioteka Prospero creates difficult and strong "contemporary mythology", where the fantasy and casual life, the ancient wiseness and modern fantastic are combined. In the "Garden" the traditions and avant-garde do not contradict with each other, but they are merged into unusual and exoitic harmony.

Biblioteka Prospero (metaphorically) — is living "out of life", the world out of "our world", out of our understanding, controlling, dominating.

There is no wonder that the "text" in Biblioteka Prospero's songs has almost nothing to do with modern pop-rock lyric writing, but has a lot of elements, that are similar to the ancient Ukrainian folklore and Japanese samurai poetry, Russian symbolists and Euro-American avant-gardists.

The sound of this album is a bit unusual too. For example, during the recording process the group used a vintage Soviet-made microphones and old-fashioned analogue reverberating algorithms. It's noticeable that these artistic and technical methods are similar to aestethic of Kraut Rock and Psychodelic Folk of 70th (Sand, Emtidy, Amon Duul etc). But in the realm of contemporary music it's too difficult to clearly describe the kind of that music. Maybe, this record can impress first the listeners who like Legendary Pink Dots, Swans or even Animal Collective.

This is the co-release with Cardiowave label.

Distribution:
A-Musik — Germany
Monitor Records — Hong Kong
Fulldozer — Russia
Chicken Skin — Ukraine
UMKA — Ukraine
Nexsound — Ukraine

Reviews:
machine.radionoise.ru [rus]
SEIDR webzine [rus]
Russian Gothic Project [rus]
FNORD! [rus]