Russia, 1989, avant-prog / experimental rock

Вежливый отказ [Polite Refusal] – Вежливый отказ: The press release really nails the sound of this album: “Jazz aesthetics in compositional development, elements of avant-garde conceptualism and neoclassicism, folklore roots in subtly nuanced vocals – this is what makes up…the essence of Polite Refusal’s music”. Free, confident vocals, intimate but not uncomfortably so; smoky nightclub piano; wailing fiddle leaping like unruly flames through reggae-tinged rhythms.