VICTOR OSADCHEV

Journey is music about travel, which sometimes, and especially now, is so lacking; about people with whom you rarely see each other because of borders and distances, and about long-awaited meetings that still happen, despite the circumstances.

The album has 13 tracks, arranged dramatically, they tell a whole story that begins with "Ellipsis". "Ellipsis" links this album to the debut "Circles". This is a prologue, an introduction, and then the story develops in "Tango", with a gradually growing passion, reaching the point of screaming. These are emotions from 2020, when people were locked up. Outside the window, the seasons changed, winter began, an unexpected "Rain in January" happened, cold, dank, strange, spring melodies came for it. Spring usually brings relief after months of darkness, but does it always? Once locked up, people, it would seem, should have become closer, but, alas, sometimes we did not hear each other, even when we were in the same room, and the spring outside the window is not able to melt the mental frost. This is a cello duet, it is about the impossibility of being heard and understood.

After that "Farewell" sounds - a farewell to the past, to childhood, to loved ones. The farewell is quiet and touching, the farewell, after which a new path begins, a new life, a journey. Landscapes, circumstances change, new people appear, borders expand or even disappear altogether, paths sometimes diverge, then intersect again, these are "Impressions", "Spirals" and "Lines". The path continues. What is the meaning of the path? Perhaps, in himself, in walking from dawn to dawn. Life is journey.

Music written for chamber ensemble: piano, violin, viola, cello, double bass, vibraphone and flute