Gunesh is a Progressive Jazz Fusion band, which was and still remains more than just famous in the former USSR and one of the most well-known outside of it - together with the Russian band Arsenal. Gunesh's first CD released by the only Russian Prog-label "Boheme Music" consists of the band's two first LPs that originally were released by the well-known Soviet 'recording monopolist' "Melodiya" in 1980. These LPs are the band's self-titled debut album of 1980 and "I See the Earth" of 1984. Both these LPs are, however, 'placed' on the Bohemian CD in the reverse order: the CD tracks from the 1st to the 6th are the same that feature the
second Gunesh LP and the tracks from the 7th to the 12th are identical to the first LP's tracks 1 - 6. As you see, there is a significant difference between two first LPs of Gunesh. There is only one song (track 2) among instrumental compositions on the second LP, and the other way round, the first LP contains only one instrumental (also track 2). So, the CD kind of presents two different sides of Gunesh's early creation. But, despite the fact these 'sides' are, on the whole, so different between themselves, the highest 'musical' quality of all the twelve pieces, and also practically the same way in composing, arranging and performing of pure instrumentals and of instrumental parts within each song, helps to perceive this CD as a monolith work with just a unique approach to assembling of tracks. Of course, first of all exactly pure instrumentals show what Gunesh is really capable of. Almost totally consisting of specifically 'spicy' Eastern motives, these instrumentals with such a unique sound to them can thrill you wonderfully, though at the same time you understand that they're among the most complex and masterly, truly progressive things you've ever heard within the Jazz Fusion genre. Gunesh's songs have often quite sorrowful vocal themes, and the Turkmenian language is one of the most 'listenable' in Rock Music, by the way. Gunesh, in general, is undoubtedly one of (just a few, maybe) the most unique Progressive Rock bands of all time. But while their second LP is, in my view, the most colourful and picturesque among the other complex, really progressive fusion albums, their one of a kind debut is undoubtedly the only real prog-fusion album with plenty of vocals in it. Both these 'sides, as you know already,
are presented on one CD released by "Boheme Music" for all you, and first of all for those who think there is already nothing in Progressive Music that could really surprise them.
