Variances by Paris To Kyiv
Variances by Paris To Kyiv is music from the deepest layers of an ancient culture with a strikingly contemporary edge. Kochan collaborates with premier bandura player Julian Kytasty, joined by jazz violist Richard Moody, West African percussionist Evans Coffie, percussionist Henry Zacharias and multi-instrumentalist Martin Colledge. Exotic instruments such as Northumbrian pipes, udu, djembe and buffalo drum are woven with voices, bandura and viola into multi-layered songs that fuse elements of pre-Christian ritual songs, fragments of medieval chants and contemporary polytonality and jazz riffs and improvisation.
Tracklist
| 1. | Wedding Song | 3:50 |
| 2. | Matins Fragments | 4:56 |
| 3. | Dance Three | 3:03 |
| 4. | Cross. Cradle. Tree. | 3:40 |
| 5. | Vocalise | 2:24 |
| 6. | Blessing | 4:09 |
| 7. | Dance Two | 3:15 |
| 8. | Touman Iarom | 2:28 |
| 9. | Stone Age Carol | 2:14 |
| 10. | Carol | 4:47 |
| 11. | Dance One | 1:29 |
| 12. | Katherine’s Kolomeyka | 2:24 |
| 13. | Historical Song | 5:09 |
Credits
released January 1, 1996
