Angelophrenia consists of ten original and conceptual tracks none of which can exist separately. This is neither a folk album nor a rock one. Angelophrenia is a big step forward – this album was created without any frames of genre, lyrics or expectations. In the basis of this album lays an old Melnitsa's slogan "New music of the ancient world". Life of the ancient world goes on with the music of new world yet the balance has become brighter. Here everything lives and naturally co-exists - warlike angels and unflying birds, sky cats and goose-swans, fornicatresses and smugglers, constellations and zeppelins, Memphis and Moscow, king Elvis and Mercury. This is the modern world of Melnitsa. Angelophrenia - is a clinical record and nothing in excess.Sound and arrangements were composed in the atmosphere of absolute freedom, beyond any borders, without any references to the previous albums. Aleksander Samoylov, professional arranger, is the person who brought to life the ideas doing it on the top of musical quality. In the album "Angelophrenia" co-exist both - flesh of drum section and guitars and the light air of harp, flute and percussion. No doubt that every musician involved into recording has improved their creative and professional skills.

Баллада о борьбе/Ballad about battle

Ангел/Angel

Что ты знаешь/What do you know

Поезд на Мемфис/Train to Memphis

Не успеваю/Can not get to you

Гори, Москва!/Burn, Moscow!

Река/River

Контрабанда/Smuggling

Неперелетная/Unflying

Дороги/Roads

Одной крови/One blood

Navigator Records presents the "Native-Grasses" which is the fourth full album of Melnitsa, a popular band on russian folk-stage. The second song from this album "Faraway" was already on top of the charts two month before the official CD presentation. The album "Native-grasses" tells a story about love, adventures, genuine feelings, about giving birth to a child and a song itself. This is a complex and multifarious album which combines great vocal, light acoustics, funk, thick electro sound with jazz influence, rock ballads and pure folk. Every song is a potential hit as Melnitsa used the indo-european legends, classic western poetry and ideas of Spanish poets.The presentation of the album "Native-grasses" was held in the biggest stadium in Moscow - SC Olympiyskyi where the band showed its magic in action!

Океан/Ocean

Ушба/Ushba

Волкодав/Wolfhound

Шаман/Shaman

Ветер/Wind

Княже/Prince

Кувшин/Pitcher

Ведьма/Witch

А если бы он/And if he would

Шелкопряд/Silkworm

Navigator Records presents the "Wild Herbs" which is the fourth full album of Melnitsa, a popular band on russian folk-stage. The second song from this album "Faraway" was already on top of the charts two month before the official CD presentation. The album "Wild Herbs" tells a story about love, adventures, genuine feelings, about giving birth to a child and a song itself. This is a complex and multifarious album which combines great vocal, light acoustics, funk, thick electro sound with jazz influence, rock ballads and pure folk. Every song is a potential hit as Melnitsa used the indo-european legends, classic western poetry and ideas of Spanish poets.The presentation of the album "Wild Herbs" was held in the biggest stadium in Moscow - SC Olympiyskyi where the band showed its magic in action!

Далеко/Faraway

Опасное лето/Dangerous summer

Береги себя/Take care

Овечка/Little sheep

Дождь для нас/Rain for us (Victor Tsoi cover)

Неукротимое Племя/Indomitable tribe

Melnitsa is the most famous Russian folk-rock band founded in Moscow on October 15th in 1999.

Five full albums have created a phenomenon in folk-music which puts down roots deeply in the entire music industry.

Melnitsa's way from tiny Moscow clubs till the largest capital stadiums took ten years full of triumph on the radio, changes in the line-up and enormous number of live concerts. Band has managed not only to make public change its attitude to folklore but they also succeeded in making folk-rock as popular as it is nowadays. Music of Melnitsa is mainly considered to be an acoustic or electroacoustic folk-rock though there is a mix of folk-jazz ("Witch"), rock-ballads ("Rain for us") and even lullabies ("White cat"). A very careful listener can hear influences of such bands like Led Zeppelin, Jefferson Airplane, The Rolling Stones and Janis Joplin as they are creative reference points for Melnitsa.

The authorship of the majority of the songs belongs to Hellawes (Natalia O'Shea) yet band has some songs based on W. B. Yeats, Rudyard Kipling and Robert Burns poetry. Hellawes also has constant co-writers Olga Lishina (Lazuri) and Ivan Malyutin (Lancer). Adorable folk-diva Hellawes is a professional linguist, so she constantly uses a wide and vivid palette of indo-european mythology while writing songs. Lyrics and music are often based on russian, celtic, scandinavian, balkan ballads, legends and folk beliefs.

Malnitsa at present consits of:

- Hellawes (Natalia O'Shea) - lead singer, acoustic celtic harp, electro celtic harp.

Natalia was born and grew up in Moscow. She got musical education in piano yet she plays the guitar and lever harp.

- Sergey Vishnyakov - acoustic guitar, electro guitar, back-vocals.

Sergey has been playing the guitar since he was twelve years old yet has musical education in piano. He has graduated from College of Arts with pop-jazz guitar specialization.

- Dmitri Frolov - drum set, percussion.
Dmitri wanted to become a drummer already at the age of four and from seventeen started touring actively. He has graduated from Gnessin Musical College.

- Aleksey Orlov - acoustic cello, electro cello.

Aleksey has wide musical education including several Musical Colleges and private jazz teachers.

- Aleksey Kozhanov - bass guitar.

Aleksey joined the band in 2005. He is also a sound director in several Moscow clubs

- Dmitri Karguin - flute, whistle, melodica

Dmitri has joined the band in 2013.

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