Kosmodromm “Будет ласковый дождь...”

Looking at the domination of guitar music specific to the majority of Belarusian musicians, the debut album of the synthpop project Kosmodromm “Tender rain will fall…” is like a sip of mulled wines in bad winter weather.  It does not matter that the mulled wine a bit bitter, the synthpop is cold and the concept of the album returns us to the tragic 1986 and makes us recall the horror of Chernobyl. However, the musicians Eiden Dark and D_Emsi recall Chernobyl from the new generation’s point of view looking at the consequences of Chernobyl from above. That is why they can clearly see “Atomic Dust” and “Wormwood Star” and everything happening “At #7 height”.

Listening to the album of Kosmodromm, you agree that synthpop is a good style for depicting “the truth of Chernobyl”. The musicians use the classic synthpop of the 80s. Everything corresponds to the genre – archaic synthesizers, fluent narration, the mellow voice and the social and scientific topics. The compositions have traces of symphonism witch violates the very idea of synthpop, claim some synthpop experts. For example, member of the oldest Belarusian synthpop band “Logika Metro” Syarhei  Diacoustic claims that “the charm of the style is in its dilettantism and the ways of overcoming it”.

Nevertheless, “Tender rain will fall…” is an atmospheric album with a grounded approach and idea performed with the help of expensive musical instruments. The last song of the album promises that “a merry morning will come” after a trip above Chernobyl. It is like the classic light at the end of the tunnel. And you wish the musicians put off the synthesizers and computers, took pipes and ukulele and started plying merry Belarusian melodies. You want “a merry morning to come” in the lively world where the birds are singing and children are playing in a sand-box rather that in the world of iron and industry.