Russian Music
 

Here are some gems from the gold age of Russian music.
Anyone else a fan of Russian music?

ВИА "Верасы" Я у бабушки живу
[VIA] of " [Verasy]" I in grandmother live

I think the singer's name is Jadwiga.

ВИА "Верасы" Любовь моя
[VIA] of " [Verasy]" Love is my
The melody of Jadwiga's backing vocals from 2:13 to 2:19 sounds like Ave Maria by Franz Schubert - imo.


ВИА "Здравствуй, песня" Не обещай
[VIA] of " How do you do, [pesnya]" Do not promise


ВИА "Пламя" Идёт солдат по городу
[VIA] of " [Plamya]" [Idet] of soldiers around the city


Some of these songs may not be too familiar so I have to include this unforgettable rendition of a more popular Russian song.
Moscow Night - A Russian folk Song - Interpreted by Stanley Power

I like Arsenal which I guess could be called a jazz fusion band that incorporated a range of influences in their music.

I didn't find the track I wanted, but here's the opener from the debut album. Some of this is quite RIO-y, but it's in no way representative of their music as a whole.

I don't know much but one or two modern bands:





Post-jazz, instrumental 8-piece group from St. Petersburg I believe.

one word - Auktyon:-

That was wild. There were different parts in the piece that reminded me of a few bands from the 70s like one phrase in the piece was like Chicago and another phrase sounded like King Crimson and it's mixed together with a bunch of other stuff too. It was interesting. The one Russian band I really like is Trio Voronezh. I don't know how to categorized the type of music Trio Voronezh plays. Their stuff reminds me a little bit like the David Grisman Quintet. Grisman mixes Jazz, Bluegrass, and Folk and other music together in a type of music which he calls Dawg. There's a stronger folk sound in the Folk-Jazz fusion by playing on traditional folk instruments. TV seems to have the same approach (to music as DGQ) except where TV mixes folk with other types of music in a progressive way with a definite Russian flavor. Vladimir Volokhin on the domra (closely related to a balalaika), Valerie Petrukhin on the double-bass balalaika and Sergei Teleshev on the an (accordion).



I thought the court jester was going to hit the other guy over the head with that instrument.

One thing I've notice with Russian music is that the bass players can play exceptionally well.

Yeah, they're a 70s band and their range of influences is impressive :) they're not easy to pigeonhole.

After some more searching, I was able to find one of my favourite tunes. I have their music from a box-set containing all their work, but I believe this is from their second studio album.



I'm afraid I have to run to work, but I'll check out Trio Voronezh when I come back :)

Russian old song are a amazing songs here. Keep it up.!

Auktyon are awesome!! I have a big collection of Soviet era records but haven't managed to find Auktyon's albums yet. I'll definitely be posting some stuff here soon because I love Russian music! (or at least some of it) :)

I only know Vladimir VISSOTSKY. I don't understand the smallest word but that's the kind of job that touch my soul.

Having posted more than 15 posts I think I'm now mature enough to put some links here so here we go. :) As an example of a genre that was well represented in Soviet Russia & other Soviet states I can post some old skool electronica from the 80s. Zodiak from Latvia are a pretty legendary band. You could easily call them the Kraftwerk of Latvia. Here's the opening track from their 1980 debut album "Disco Alliance":


For some reason, some of the coolest Soviet electronica I've found is featured on LPs that are intended for sports / aerobics background music. "Pulse: Sport and Music" LP trilogy has some really cool electronica tracks by various artists (Arsenal is also featured there btw!). Perfectly fit for the dancefloor b-boys & fly girls. Here's a couple of examples: