crystal sound rests an experimental and conceptually-driven album at its core, although it displays folk, art-pop and jazz music facets. it is primarily a story-telling work. one that could lead you on a journey far north in the nordic countries, in haruki murakami's fictional world or in a bizarre setting of a david lynch movie.

crystal sound project's debut carves the initial path bilyana furnadzhieva and viktor benev took when they started this multi-disciplinary art collaboration. the project englobes a vision, which reunites different cultures and their proper traditions (in this case, the collaboration with the finnish singer selma savolainen), sculptures in porcelain used as musical instruments, electroacoustic music, all marked by evident eclecticism.

throughout the eight tracks, you can hear the original or variously manipulated sounds coming exclusively from the sculptures created by furnadzhieva (singing drums, gong drum, singing bowls, chênecelaine). savolainen is singing inside one of the sculptures in order to play with its acoustic properties and frequency response.

on suuri sun rantas autius and läksin minä kesäyönä käymään are both finnish traditional songs uniquely arranged for the album, whereas cassiopeia shows how sculptures can be united and/or juxtaposed with the double bass - classical instrument under the experienced hands of the french contemporary music and free jazz figure jean paul celea.