Cukor Bila Smert’ – Cukor Bila Smert’

This compilation, clocking in at over 30 songs and nearly 90 minutes, throws you headfirst into the gloriously eccentric and intimate chamber folk of the three-piece band led by Svitlana Nianio, whose solo work was recently been given the reissue treatment over on Shukai. With her almost operatic vocals and the strings and keyboards of her two colleagues, she gave the Ukrainian underground a stunningly cool and droning left-field pop sound in just a few years in the early 1990s.