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YARGA Sound System "Live"
ethno, electronic, Karelia
A new project of Aleksandre Leonov (Va-Ta-Ga) is exploring song material of the Russian North.
Mystification of Russian folk music is created through implementing of computer electronic vibes into the structure of ethno-fusion and world music.
Karelian Folk Music Ensemble "TOIVE"
Early instrumental records
instrumental, folk
Folk music ensemble of Petrozavodsk State University "Toive" opens to us the world of traditional music, songs and dances of indigenous peoples of Karelia.
The disc features the very first instrumental recordings of the ensemble "TOIVE" in 1985-1988. In this period the musicians were performing a lot of Finnish violin music, were the first in contemporary Karelia who played diatonic kantele and youhikko singing Kalevala runes.
SKMR – 051 Trigon «7 Steps»
ethno-jazz
Trigon from Moldova land, they are children of Balkans! Playing ethno-jazz, Trigon has introduced a new term into the world of musical styles – Balkan jazz!
The CD «7 Steps» is one of the latest works of the group recorded in Kishinev.
This work appears for the first time ever on world music market!
SKMR-050 Lespromhoz GROOVE "Various"
ethno avant-garde; experimental fusion; world music
This disk is introducing to audience music created by a company of musicians collaborating in a project entitled Lespromhoz GROOVE. Its leader Aleksandre Leonov is joined by musicians of the band Va-Ta-Ga, Anatoly Kuular (ex`Huun-Huur-Tu), Aleksandre Ulaev (Samosad Band) and others.
SKMR-049 GEN DOS "Bay-Tayga"
folk rock, Tyva
The next album of the famous Tuvan musician and shaman Gennady Chamzyrin, whose style of throat singing is known all over the world. The musician’s mates decided to focus on rock sound in the release, which makes it different from the album with profound electronic element «Shizo I.D.», which had been released by our label in 2006. The CD also features a professional video of one of the songs.
SKMR-048 TROITSA/TRINITY "Sem"
folk-rock, Belarus
The style of Belarusian band Troitsa is characterized by originalapproach to sound – synthesis of warm-hearted folk sound and complex, sometimes mystic passages of academic and avant-garde music.
SKMR-047 LEO SEVETS Osa Poika Onni Poika "Lucky Fellow"
world music, folk, Karelia
Works presented in «Lucky Fellow» (that is how the album’s title is translated from Finnish) is just a small part of music Leo Sevets has composed in recent years. All songs of the album are performed in Karelian; majority of them have folk lyrics. The author himself defines style of the CD as «PRIMITIVE FOLK», implying not just content-free music, but purity, even some kind of «clearance», freedom from everything artificial and electronic. And this is the best thing about it. Unique musical instruments the performer plays once and again prove the point. 15-string kantele, jouhikko – are of great value just because they are among the rarest instruments in the world. But when Maestro touches them – and the album’s author is definitely one – they become really invaluable.
You should also pay attention to the CD’s cover, depicting Leo Sevets as a cartoon character. The image is not taken by chance, since very soon musician’s friends plan to finish production of animation series based on Leo’s adventures in Karelian villages!
SKMR-046 Vedan-Kolod (Prophetic tree)
"Dance of the Wood Spirits"/ "Tanets leshih"
ethno, Russia
The music of the ensemble from Siberian city Krasnoyarsk is oriented around pagan past of Slavic peoples. The ensemble’s leader Tatyana Naryshkina together with a musician and a master of Russian folk musical instruments Valery Naryshkin have revived rare ceremonial songs, legends and Russian epics, which existed many centuries ago. Scythian horn, gusli, zhalejka, horn, Slavonian bagpipe, Slavonian drums and others are among the instruments the ensemble members use.
The ensemble performs pieces composed by the musicians, including songs in Old Slavonic, authentic songs of Siberia and Western Russia, songs of Siberian migrants from Belarus, Ukraine, Bulgaria, instrumental compositions and throat singing. All adaptations of folk songs were made by Tatyana and Valery Naryshkins.
SKMR-045 OSIMIRA "Druva"
ethno, Belarus
The group`s new release is based on archaic melodies and ceremonial songs of Kryvia ( Belarus) and includes 17 original tracks. This album differs from the previous CD «Proshcha» and can be classified as «inner», «sacred». It’s not pure folk, but rather a reflection of ancient Tradition through the experience of reviving it.
Though “DRUVA” has songs taken in the original version and performed almost in the same way they were performed ages and ages before. Moreover, all the material was deliberately recorded «live» without any sound processing for easy perception of natural singing and playing. Most of the instruments are rare and very carefully chosen by the musicians: charot, duda (Belarusian bagpipe), kankli, kasa, skuduchai, kolavaya lyre, kalyuka, drymba, parnyaty, dudka, surmy, sopilka, zhaleika, original percussion, okarina.
The traditional line-up of OSIMIRA has also changed. Besides the usual members of the band, Alyona and Tatyana Lyutorovich were invited to a recording session as guests, their voices you can hear in the tracks «Kupalka» and «Chuta Ruta». New members of the band – Volga Pytkova and Volga Brazyankova performed main female vocals.
The album “DRUVA” is seventeen breathings in and breathings out of genuine Belorussian soul.
This is music of dark forests and swamps, endless rivers and blue-eyed lakes,vibration of ancient sacred places and silence of dateless settlements. Pulse of the inner heart of Europe, archaic of Everlasting Kryvia.
SKMR-044 Vily "Idi, beda"
folkrock, Russia
The band recorded their debut album «Idi, Beda» independently in 2003. Amongst the songs composed by the singer Vasilisa Vvedenskaya, the album contains a song with lyrics by Innokentiy Annensky, one Russian folk song and one Mongolian folk song in Mongolian. It’s remarkable the band is not afraid to be too close either to classics or to people, since all this together supports the album’s idea. The first album is introducing to listeners fairytale characters of Russian folklore and can be regarded as more «Russian» than the following band’s releases.
Sattuma "Kudelma" SKMR-040
ethno, world music, Karelian
Sattuma (Finnish word for «occasion») – a folk music quartet from Petrozavodsk, republic of Karelia. This is a «family quartet», whose line-up includes internationally known folk musicians Arto Rinne and Dmitry Dyomin (members of the well-known group Myllärit) and their children– Eila and Vadim. Interpretingtraditional material including Finnish, Karelian and Russiantraditional tunes and songs, the band creates absolutely unique atmosphere and mood, in which two musical generations enter into lively and creative conversation. Polished through years of practice «fathers» artistry (the two musicians play more than 15 traditional instruments – from violin and accordion to chipsan and didgeridoo) and somewhat naïve, spontaneous perception of music by «children», harmoniously combined,create the specific sound, which has won hearts of large audiences worldwide.
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