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Hello everyone! Not long ago we stepped into our old friend Arkady Vikhorev's Studio "ArkadiA" to record our first album. This is going to be a short, but a true glance on our music. Why just a glance? I composed a material for four conceptual albums and each of them is going to sound differently by staff and tendency. So I decided to compile the songs from different albums into one for you to try to spot the whole spectrum of our band in one quick go. Mind you, this release is already going to be a sort of unique in its kind, and I'll tell you why. First of all, there are going to be the tracks on it that will never go into any of the albums. Second of all, there'll be a track recorded with Er.J.Orchestra's musicians in quite unique and previously unreleased version that won't be repeated in forthcoming editions. And the last! The rest of included tracks will be re-recorded over again with new looks on them, probably with new musicians (you never know!) to avoid repetition in new albums.
The musicians that involved into this project:
Vladimir Pysmenny - guitar
We are facing a lot of problems on the way of finishing this work as quick as possible, but we're trying our best! Mykola Dubinin (a.k.a. Nik Oakman) 
Good news though! Finally Caravan Records issued Er.J.Orchestra's very limited special edition On The Hill Again CD+DVD album. Previously released in 2002 by Rostok Records as a single audio CD it did not contain two LIVE tracks on it: Dawn and AyO Valley. Rejected by Oakman and Alexei Alexandrov those tracks got shelved for several years, but now they are on and sound even better!. In this reissue on audio album (disc one) Dawn is given as a short introduction to AyO Valley. And it is given in a full length on DVD (disc two) in Extras as a sound track to a short film Blissful Island. Not long ago there were overdubbed Oakman's vocals and drumming to AyO Valley and now it sounds just great! Besides, the rest of the tracks went through some Oakman's re-editing, so now they are a bit shorter but sound more dynamic. DVD contains LIVE show dedicated to the first On The Hill Again issue plus Extras. The audio tracks on DVD sound absolutely fantastic! Besides, there's a brand new track Fanteas Magor on it, composed at that period of time, but never performed LIVE before. The whole DVD Menu Set is provided by new soundtracks from Oakman, and on the top of that, DVD contains new Oakman's titled On The Hill Again soundtrack version recorded LIVE specially for DVD credits in the end of 2005 (short version of it you can download at mp3 page). Really great and highly recommended edition featuring Oakman. It reveals him not only as a musician or composer, but shows his arranging and producing skills. But don't get confused with the other two Er.J.Orchestra's albums - they sound absolutely different from On The Hill Again, as if it was a different band though. Please note! Beware of Italian pirate version of this album issued by Mauro Moroni's Mellow Records. AyO Valley on that one is recorded without drums and it is issued only as an audio album (no DVD disc!) with horrible graphic design! The original Caravan Records release is done as a magnificently designed triple folded Digi-Pack containing fabulous book in it. Ask for this Caravan Records issue right here, on this website!
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