Port Mone trio
Minsk, Belarus | Established. Jan 01, 2006 | INDIE
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Another awesome avant-accordion album comes to us from, of all places, Belarus. Pictured left, Port Mone's album "DiP" is an excellent collection of moody instrumentals sporting unusual ethnic percussion and some surprisingly funky poppin' bass. I can now say that I have listened to an entire album from Belarus (and so should you.) - Music for Maniacs
Despite absence of folk themes, the music suggests itself to be called the roots... - Rolling Stone (Russia)
They turn the traditional harmonies of the accordion into what they call a "mix of ambient, noise, experimental, and classical/traditional" forms. The music of Port Mone, punctuated by silence, is more modest - and weighs a lot less on paper. Mobility is everything in unfriendly places. They're the soundtrack to a precious wistfulness - and the kind of private peace shown by the lady in the middle. - Far From Moscow
It's a mistake that best albums comes from the West only. Here is one of the best albums of year 2009 and it is coming from th East, from Belarus. This is something really fabulous... Port Mone brings something new big and geniusly performed to the basement of known cultural legacy. It have to be heared. In my humble opinion this is one of the most original albums of year 2009 in the world. - Terapija.net
Discography
- "Thou" - release in autumn 2014, album
- "Khlib" - 2014, DVD, music score for a silent movie; National Oleksandr Dovzhenko Film Centre, Ukraine
- "Khmeleva project" - 2012, CD, album feat. DakhaBrakha band; "NASH FORMAT" label, Ukraine
- "Dip" - 2009, CD, album. GEOMETRY label, Russia
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The instrumental trio Port Mone is known for its unique, intricate, and complex melodies with a prevalent use of accordion. Music of the trio steps away from the typical stylistic norms and links classical music, noise, experimental music, and folk in refreshingly new ways.
Their ability to understand the beauty and pain of the world around them drove them perform for a group of surrounded Ukrainian soldiers in the Crimea, while Russian soldiers patrolled just a stone's throw from the stage. They received standing ovations from both sides.
Since forming in Minsk, Belarus in 2006, Port Mone have become a favourite of Eastern European music critics. Their music is touched with classical times, rumbling artillery fire and folk music in a way that has won them the hearts of fans in Poland, Croatia and Russia. It is the musical chroniclers of contemporary history that are coming to your city.
Its debut album "Dip" released by an independent label Geometry (Russia) brought them recognition and international acclaim. It was noted by the critics and won “Foreign Experts’ Prize” at Experty.by annual awards in Belarus (voted by critics from Poland, Russia, Lithuania, Latvia, and Ukraine). It was called the best foreign album of 2009 in Croatia, and was nominated for highly respectable "Steppenwolf Award" as "The best album" and "The music" of 2010 in Russia.
In 2012 Ukrainian based label “Nash Format” released the album ”The Khmeleva project” - common project of Port Mone trio and Ukrainian etno-chaos band DakhaBrakha.
In 2013 the trio produced soundtrack to silent movie “Khlib” (1929, UA). The DVD was released in 2014 by National Oleksandr Dovzhenko Centre, UA.
New album "Thou", recorded in the unusual acoustic conditions in the midst of a forest, was released on Hevhetia label (Slovakia) in 2014.
Critics point out that Port Mone is a brand-new phenomenon that is difficult to fit into the stylistic forms as the music of the trio links classical music, jazz, noise, experimental and folk music.
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