Russia #1 – Traditional Folkloric Themes
With its deeply complex and emotional history, Russia has been the theater of intense cultural turmoil for centuries. This album is a testament to the Russian musical heritage, thread together by a strong, emotional melodic sense that encompasses Russia’s contradictions. Russian music spans across every human nuanced feeling. Cheerful guitars or delicate mandolins, high-pitched ethnic flutes and lively percs, stirring or solemn accordions, upbeat or melodic clarinets and violins, piano, evocative or plaintive male vocals, ethereal female vocals, harpsichord, whistling. At times energetic and bright, lovely and excited, at others, sorrowful, melancholic, mysterious, these themes all draw their inspiration from different folkloric traditions, driven by the contradictions inherent to the nostalgia-infused Russian spirit, at once fueled with excitement and sadness. They’ll find their place in any relevant Documentary or sequence about Russian topics, as well as strong storytelling of Russia’s culture and events…
