An enjoyable, highly atmospheric and often cinematic collection of piano based pieces; which are weaved by field recording detail and other instrumental flourishers. And as always with anything on the Spekk label the disk is presented in their distinctive house style oversized folder style- which features rather lovely yet simplistic line drawings by Olga Indovina which fit’s the albums tone and feel wonderfully.

Using the Piano as his main instrument, Kiritchenko recorded the basics of the tracks himself, before calling upon two of his favourite drummers, Jason Kahn and Martin Brandlmayer, to bring them to life. The result will astound fans of all three artists, as its lightfilled optimism contrasts with their often serene and serious main oeuvre. And yet, the process didn’t end there: “After their part was done I still had some tracks for which I wished a percussion part too, so I decided to try that out myself and bought a snare and a set up of cymbals”, Kiritchenko remembers, “By that time I had wonderful field recordings of insects I made on the half-island of Crimea (Ukraine) and they blended in very well with the rest and also with my usual instruments: guitar, glockenspiel, mouth harmonica, auto-harp, Tibetan bowls and objects.”

As mentioned, ‘Misterrious’ is already Andrey Kiritchenko’s second album on Spekk, following up on his 2005 effort “True Delusion”. That album was realised in conjunction with his own Nexsound imprint, which is now considered one of Ukraine’s first professional labels for experimental electronic music, and paved the way for a style which he has himself characterised as “slow, melodic and minimalist”.