Russian Music

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https://twitter.com/tass_agency/status/1222433172329324545

Who would've though that our Vlad was such a romantic!

[SteK]

Gave her a listen for the first time in over ten years -- very nostalgic. It's surprising how many songs I still remember so well.  Not something I'd listen to these days though to be honest.

Did you like Tsoy/Kino? They made a film...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8ftavdKq_s

[jobotic]

His Choir Concerto which he composed near the end of his life is prolly in my top ten albums.  Although, admittedly, my top ten albums list is over a thousand strong.

(Polyansky's Russian State Symphonic performance, that is.  This one: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2GBwgNB0XVU)

Meant to say that is amazing. The Polyansky version costs three times as much as the Layton version. Do you think it's worth it?

[Sin Agog]

Meant to say that is amazing. The Polyansky version costs three times as much as the Layton version. Do you think it's worth it?

I did get into this once on Julian Cope's site.  A choral aficionado was pushing the technical benefits of the Belgian version.  Think the word 'earthy' was being used.  But the number of singers on the Russian take must have been immense.  Earthy is insufficient for that piece.  Nothing less than otherwordly will suffice.  I mean, it was likely Schnittke's attempt to commune with a rapidly approaching afterlife.  As you noticed, there was definitely something special going on with that recording.  Some rare synergy of acoustics and setting and recording techniques.  It never leaves me less than reeling back in awe.  Sounds like it had the same effect on you.  Doubt any other version could pull that off again.

Or in corny advert parlance: a slice of heaven?  Priceless.

[jobotic]

I used to post on there!

Yeah you've sold me. I'll get the right version.

Gonna go back to see if this got a mention on the choral music thread I started a year or so ago. If it did I'm ashamed for not paying attention.

[jobotic]

Listened to this on the train today.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06g6s0v

Great stuff. I've enjoyed quite a few of these.

[idunnosomename]

Donald Macleod is the best broadcaster the BBC have imo. I loved composer of the week. always a really great introduction to an oeuvre. of course the podcast versions have the performances cut down to a minute or so.

[jobotic]

Yeah it is a real shame but if you like the sound of a piece you can look it up instantly now at least.

Was at a conference in Portsmouth last year and in the evening enjoyed walking round the harbour in the dark listening to the Thomas Tallis one.

Agree about Macleod

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Did you like Tsoy/Kino? They made a film...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8ftavdKq_s

Yeah, I know Kino, but never listened to them before, maybe only briefly in my childhood. I remember my grandad had some Kino records in his big vinyl collection, and he was a proper ledge. Had a listen to "Grupa Krovi" the other day -- and I have to say, I liked the album quite a lot.

Thanks for mentioning them, I certainly feel like I was missing out on some good music. Might check out the movie as well, been a while since I've seen any Russian cinema.

[Lisa Jesusandmarychain]

Kino were rubbish, St. Petersberg's very own INXS. Give me Messer Chups any day.

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Is it because you like the stripper lady on the bass?

[Lisa Jesusandmarychain]

Please don't refer to the lovely Svetlana as a " stripper lady". I prefer to refer to her as overbite girl Talented Woman On Bass Who Wisely Stays In Her Comfort Zone.

[Sin Agog]

Fucking language barrier.  Only thing I can find by them on youtube is a weird vid of them listening to their own music play in the backroom of a mouldering studio that looks like it could double up as an underground bunker, but the group "College Assessor" have this dead inneresting typically wonky album from 1989 I spin occasionally.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3Zr9SajdGw

Don't think anyone's mentioned Leonid Fedorov's group Auktyon yet, but this track from their album Bird always gets me hyped-up.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ejiE1jHwSA

His solo album from 2003...the one with the pink cover (fucking language barrier) is a bittuva classic.  It sometimes sounds like three albums playing at once: a terrifying Russian bard, an industrial field recording taken from a compactor plant, and some noisy underground psychedelic group.  Fuck it, here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mX_9ths7t4

And Industrial Architecture did one of the better coldwave dark synth albums in my collection. Singer hanged himself shortly after its recording. Russia sounds like a delightfully dandy place.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SD7Kze9OFI

[Pauline Walnuts]

Please don't refer to the lovely Svetlana as a " stripper lady". I prefer to refer to her as overbite girl Talented Woman On Bass Who Wisely Stays In Her Comfort Zone.

Wasn't she replaced by Polina Draculina?

Anyway, another vote for Kedr Livanskiy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vL2OOMoZ34

Also, boobs.

[Famous Mortimer]

One of the most dense conversationalists I know (as in he can't drop a sentence without it being a fractal diamond littered with unexpected references and wordplay)

He sounds like a prick

[Sin Agog]

He sounds like a prick

English is maybe his third or fourth language so it's pretty cool that he's about 1000 times more eloquent in it than I'll ever be.

[Lisa Jesusandmarychain]

Wasn't she replaced by Polina Draculina?

Briefly, while yer woman did some work with her own Dark Wave duo Bleak Engineers. I think she returned to the fold last year at some point, though.

[jobotic]

I did get into this once on Julian Cope's site.  A choral aficionado was pushing the technical benefits of the Belgian version.  Think the word 'earthy' was being used.  But the number of singers on the Russian take must have been immense.  Earthy is insufficient for that piece.  Nothing less than otherwordly will suffice.  I mean, it was likely Schnittke's attempt to commune with a rapidly approaching afterlife.  As you noticed, there was definitely something special going on with that recording.  Some rare synergy of acoustics and setting and recording techniques.  It never leaves me less than reeling back in awe.  Sounds like it had the same effect on you.  Doubt any other version could pull that off again.

Or in corny advert parlance: a slice of heaven?  Priceless.

I've ordered this, should come in the week. Can't wait to hear it without YouTube ads popping up.

[Pauline Walnuts]

I think I've just fallen in love with Луна's Music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDCyy8JLAt4&list=RDSDCyy8JLAt4