Band: Jelonek
Title: Jelonek
Label: Mystic Productions
Distribution: Suburban
Release date: 02/04/2010
Review: CD

The instrumental Jelonek solo-project is a rather special one. For fifty minutes, Jelonek combine different musical styles, like (Heavy / Power / Doom) Metal, Traditional / Folk, Classical (era sixteenth to eighteenth century), Electronics, Dark Wave / Ambient, Operetta, and Gipsy. Besides ‘pure’ Metal instruments (electric guitars and bass, drums and percussions), the multi-instrumentalist uses lots of violins, keyboards and so on.
The spirit behind the album dwells within different spheres: emotional, mystic, self-conscient, Oriental, aggressive, folksy, soundtrack-alike, integer versus extravert etc.
To listen this album out completely might not be that easy at all, and I can imagine it will bore some after a (short) while; yet at the same time, Jelonek does surprise from time to time with some refreshing and/or renewing parts. And what’s more: the individual songs do differ from each other – it’s not as if the first song gets repeated time after time.
I read the comparison ‘mixture of Nigel Kennedy and Apocalyptica’, so what else can I add?

70/100

Ivan Tibos.