Advantages: Top quality Russian folk music Disadvantages: Lyrics will be hard for non Russian speakers to understand
...quite psychedelic. This album - Voice Letter is their only to date and was released in September 2007. This is an excellent band that are not particularly known in Russia nor even Germany outside of certain circles but are superb musicians none the less and have created an album full of gentle timeless tracks.
Musicians
Irina Doubrovskaja - Keyboards, Accordion, Vocal
Leonid Soybelman - Guitar
Mikhail Zhukov - Percussion
Sergey Vorontsov - Bass, ... ...Drums
Translated Titles
1. Beside myself to you I came 2:33
2. Hey, Gangway! 3:58
3. The gold prospector 2:22
4. Still waters 3:44
5. Antediluvian 2:35
6. Bevelled glasses 1:54
7. And why? 2:30
8. Cranes 4:37
9. Upon the earth 1:48
10. Tsaritsino station 2:20
11. The mushroom hunter 4:41
12. Eh, Kalina 4:14
13. Went and drank 3:13
14. How here's how 4:02
Total playing time 44:33 ...
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...a 2 part CD and Bile refers to the Czech word for white rather than the pukey substance - though that would work too!
The romani violinist has the most insane of voices, it's a warble come hiccup of a sound yet remains not just interesting but also pleasant too. However the novelty of what is a very very unique voice soon wears off and the music created by the duo has more of a Czech/Polish folk sound than that of a roma one, so it's therefore more ...
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