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Release Date: 24-10-2005
Label: Jaro Medien
Catalog Number: JARO4268-2
Barcode: 4006180426827
Musical Style: World
Track Listing:
| Disc 1 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Car's Love Song; Vladiswar Nadishana [03:51] | 7 | Barastylahyy/Song Of Parting; Hulu Project [05:06] |
| 2 | Prayer Part 2; Mikhail Alperin [06:06] | 8 | Wild Village Dance; Moscow Art Trio [03:07] |
| 3 | Lullaby; Farlanders [04:33] | 9 | Pri Doline; Moscow Art Trio [07:11] |
| 4 | Oh Ne Budite; Mikhail Alperin [03:22] | 10 | Skomorohi; Moscow Art Trio [08:38] |
| 5 | Keghe/Cockoo; Stepanida [01:50] | 11 | Sergey's Ballad; Sergey Starostin Vocal Family [04:03] |
| 6 | Fog; Farlanders [04:25] | 12 | Nostalgia; Mikhail Alperin [02:42] |
Description:
In Russia the clocks run differently.... – one way, perhaps, of characterising a musical development that has only been systematically followed in the West since the 1990s. That was when Russian free-thinking collided sharply with the Western European pigeonhole mentality where music was concerned. The highly idiosyncratic developments from Russia were hard to categorize; indeed, they almost defied classification altogether: Jazz, rock (all the way to true punk excess), pop, folk, experimental (from electronic music to the strategic use of techno), forms of classical music, theatre, slapstick, light-hearted play-acting – all can be encountered simultaneously. The Russians seem to have no qualms about combining all kinds of different styles in the wildest and most arresting way possible, moulding them into a harmonious (or sometimes intentionally disharmonious) whole. This CD cannot claim to include every aspect of Russian music, yet the small selection it offers provides highly expressive insights into the many aspects of the Russian soul: radical high spirits, some highly harmonious 'cat music,' and the call of a cuckoo are just a few of the surprises it has in store. Because there's nothing the Russian soul loves more than to surprise and astonish. In Russia, the clocks really do run differently!
