ОРКЕСТР ВЕРМИШЕЛЬ  Vermicelli's Byzantine Fantasies

The name of the album is "Byzantium." The composition of the same name has already gained massive popularity. The music was written by Sergei Schurakov over a two-year period. Practically all the compositions on the disk have been regularly performed by the group for over a year and a half. Vsevolod Gakkel and Nail Kadyrov, no longer with Vermicelli, took part in the recordings.

The disk was made with the participation of the company Boheme Music. It was recorded in January-April of 1999 at Melodia studios. The Moscow presentation will be held on April 19 at the Central Artists Hall. The concert, apart from compositions from the first and second albums, will include several absolutely new songs, which will go into the third album, the material for which will be ready in about a year. The difference between this album and "Anabasis" can be heard immediately. Most of all, the sound has become less like underground performed in basements and more like rock-n-roll, while maintaining a level of complexity in the performance, and at the same time, ease for the listener.