Sunchild is yet another prog project from talented and prolific Ukrainian musician Antony Kalugin. Kalugin currently records under three band names, Karfagen, Hoggwash and Sunchild. Under the Sunchild name, he brought together a plethora of other Ukranian musicians to supplement his impressive keyboard and writing talents. The music is an all out prog feast with many varied tempos and loads of keyboards washing over everything. A wide array of horns and woodwinds are used to great extent as well. Kalugin does the bulk of the singing (in English) with perhaps a slight accent. He also brings in guest vocalists, both male and female to add even more dimensions to the proceedings.
This is the second in a series of albums by singer/keyboard player Antony Kalugin, but while the first 'Messages From Afar: First Contact' was by Karfagen (their ninth studio album in all), 'Messages From Afar: The Division and Illusion of Time' is by Sunchild (their eighth). Kalugin writes a lot of material, and he uses his more song-based with Sunchild, and the rest with Karfagen. But, if that isn't confusing enough, apart from saxophonist Michail Sidorenko, all of Karfagen who played on the first 'Messages' album are also involved with this one, along with a few additional musicians. Although one may guess this album began life in Eastern Europe due to the slightly accented vocals, for the most part this feels like a very British album indeed. Camel and Pink Floyd are obvious influences…
AKP special exclusive "Breaking Free Tour" compilation CD! Karfagen & Sunchild is the projects of the composer, multi-instrumentalist Anton Kalugin. Since 2006, he released 15 albums in English label Caerllysi Music. Musicians actively and successfully represents Ukraine on the world progressive rock scene. Behind performances of the team in the famous international rock festivals, numerous reviews, reviews of the major recognized Internet portals. France, Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, United Kingdom - the countries where Karfagen / Sunchild professionally presented interesting, melodic, dynamic and at the same atmospheric material, roots stretching into the legacy of bands like Pink Floyd, Camel, Focus, Happy the Man , Yes, Genesis, Marillion.
Antony Kalugin is a prolific musician and composer from Ukraine. His bands Karfagen, Sunchild and Hoggwash plus his solo albums has gained him many fans.
Hoggwash is a project who begun to take form around 2006 when excellent musician Antony Kalugin (Karfagen, Sunchild) from Ukraine and Will Machie from Wales got together and since then the collaboration between them was a real succes. Hoggwash released so far two albums, one in 2007 and second in 2013 named "Spellbound". Besides Kalugin and Machie are lots of invited guests to complete the overall sound of these albums. The music is on the symphonic/neo-prog side, well performed and with good musicianship, what suffers little bit are the ideas, who are far from bad but kinda same with what was done in the past by other bands from this genre. Influences taken from Camel on the smoother parts, Genesis for symphonic side, Saga for the pompous passages…