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40. Endless Melancholy – Fragile Endless Melancholy is the brainchild of Ukrainian musician Oleksiy Sakevych and if one thing, you can be sure that Sakevych knows how to title his project and albums when the falling piano notes of opener “Whereever” hit you. And it is with this lack of place and the idea of melancholy much of Fragile can be explained. Sakevych draws much of his musical credo from the darker sides of emotion, with the dichotomy of happy/sad of melancholy still imbued. His piano compositions, accompanied by cello, viola and sometimes even drums are a gaze into the distance, or the expression of nostalgia as Sakevych himself alluded. Nostalgia can be either restorative or reflective in nature. In the first you want to harken back to a time or place that went missing, meaning there is a home, a place to return to. Fragile rather finds its place in the latter category, a yearning for a place that never existed and thus there is no way of retrieving it. Fragile for ...