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Мельница (Melnitsa)

Melnitsa is a Russian folk rock band. It was founded in 1999 by Natalia "Hellawes" O'Shea and Alexey "Chus" Sapkov around the remnants of a local folk band 'Till Eulenspiegel'.

For the first several years the band had worked the club and festival circuit, earned a bona fide cult status in the folk-n-fantasy teenage sub-culture and released an acoustic album Doroga Sna (Дорога Сна, The Road of Dream) featuring the underground hit Gorets (Горец, Highlander) set to the Russian translation of Robert Burns' Highland Harry Back Again.

Luck struck in 2005, when the lead single Nochnaya Kobyla (Ночная Кобыла, Night mare) off their second, more pop-infused album Pereval (Перевал, Mountain Pass) had been sneaked into rotation on Nashe Radio (the name and lyrics of the song are a complex allusion to Mara, a Norse mythical entity that caused nightmares). A grass-roots chart effort by fans propelled the song to #1 position in the "Best Of Year" chart, and the band to the small arena circuit (sparsely populated in Russia).

Their latest albums Zov Krovi (Зов Крови, Call of Blood) and Dikiye Travy (Дикие Травы, Wild Grasses, released early 2009) features the same lyrical and melody themes underscored by more rhythm section support from the band.

Video: Мельница (Melnitsa) - Невеста полоза (The Snake Bride)

 

Download the record "Dikie travy" here

Kornog - amazing Scottish/Breton folk!

 

 Kornog is a Breton folk music band formed in the 1980s. They are notable in that they have been perhaps the only Breton band to have had a serious touring presence in the United States, so for many in North America, Kornog defines Breton music. The word ‘kornog’ means “west” in the Breton language.


In the northwest of France lies the province of Brittany, where a unique Celtic culture has flourished for centuries. Kornog merged traditional Breton tunes with the Scottish vocal repertoire, creating an exciting new acoustic music. The quartet’s complex arrangements result in a style quite unlike any other, at once graceful and thrilling, ancient and contemporary.

1980 saw the creation of the trio Kornog (meaning “West” in Breton) with vocalist, bouzouki, mandolin, and cittern player Jamie McMenemy, Breton guitarist Soïg Siberil, and French-born Breton fiddler Christian Lemaître. Soon flautist Jean-Michel Veillon joined the band, and the formula was complete. 

Their unique sound, created by a focused unison of flute and fiddle, a complex bouzouki and guitar rhythm section, and complex arrangements, was ideal for the Western Europe concert circuit. When Kornog toured the United States for the first time, they had such an enthusiastic public response that they recorded a live album in Minneapolis, Premiere, released on Green Linnet.

In 1986, Soïg Siberil left the band, and guitarist Gilles Le Bigot joined in order to record the album Kornog IV. After a Yugoslav tour and a stint with the Irish traditional powerhouse the Chieftains, Kornog disbanded. Veillon and Le Bigot founded Barzaz, Lemaître joined Storvan and then the Celtic Fiddle Festival, and McMenemy took a nine-year break before guesting in several recordings throughout the 90s.

Then, in 1999, Kornog reformed with the addition of guitarist Nicolas Quemener. After the reformation, they toured the United States and recorded Korong, 2000.
 

You can download some of their music at the wonderful "Folk yourself" blog HERE

Breoghan project - Inisheer & Valsen till mig

Here follows a video of one of my projects: Breoghan Project, where we play Irish and Scottish music (and some other things). The first tune is a waltz called Inisheer (also known as The Eagle's Feather, Inis Oírr In Inis Oírr, Inis Oir, Inis Oirr, Inisfree, Inish Iar, Innisheer, The Old Arm Chair, The Women's Lament For The Dead.) by Thomas Walsh and the second tune is also a waltz but created by the talented Swedish multi-instrumentalist Esbjörn Hazelius. The song if filmed live at Salón de Representantes in Manzana de las Luces (one of the oldest extant buildings of Buenos Aires).

 On this video:

Sergio F. Ribnikov (me) on low whistle

Martin Fuchinecco (also in Huldreslåt) on fiddle

Santiago McCarthy (also in Derwyd) on cittern

The Klezmatics - Come when I call you (Woodie Guthrie)

Come When I Call You

(Original song by Woodie Guthrie)

Oh, will you come when I call you?

I’ll come when you call me.

I’ll call you at half-past one!

One’s for the pretty little baby that's

born, born, born and gone away.

Oh, will you come when I call you?

I’ll come when you call me.

I’ll call you at half-past two.

Two's for the love of me and you.

One's for the pretty little baby

that’s born, born, born and gone away.

Oh, will you come when I call you?

I’ll come when you call me.

I’ll call you at half-past three.

Three’s for these warships at sea.

Two's for the love of me and you.

One's for the pretty little baby

that’s born, born, born and gone away.

Will you come when I call you?

I’ll come when you call me.

I’ll call you at half-past four.

Four's for the guns of this war.

Three’s for these warships at sea.

Two's for the love of me and you.

One's for the pretty little baby

that’s born, born, born and gone away.

Oh, will you come when I call you?

I’ll come when you call me.

I’ll call you at half-past five.

Five's for these warplanes that fly.

Four's for the guns of this war.

Three’s for these warships at sea.

Two's for the love of me and you.

One's for the pretty little baby

that’s born, born, born and gone away.

Oh, will you come when I call you?

I’ll come when you call me.

I’ll call you at half-past six.

Six for the cities all wrecked.

Five's for these warplanes that fly.

Four's for the guns of this war.

Three’s for these warships at sea.

Two's for the love of me and you.

One's for the pretty little baby

that’s born, born, born and gone away.

Oh, will you come when I call you?

I’ll come when you call me.

I’ll call you at half-past seven.

Seven for continents blowed up.

Six for the cities all wrecked.

Five's for these warplanes that fly.

Four's for the guns of this war.

Three’s for these warships at sea.

Two's for the love of me an you.

One's for the pretty little baby

that’s born, born, born and gone away.

Oh, will you come when I call you?

I’ll come when you call me.

I’ll call you at half-past eight.

Eight for my eight billion graves.

Seven for continents blowed up.

Six for the cities all wrecked.

Five's for these warplanes that fly.

Four's for the guns of this war.

Three’s for these warships at sea.

Two's for the love of me and you.

One's for the pretty little baby

that’s born, born, born and gone away.

Oh, will you come when I call you?

I’ll come when you call me.

I'll call you at half-past nine.

Nine for the crippled and blind.

Eight for my eight billion graves.

Seven for continents blowed up.

Six for the cities all wrecked.

Five for these warplanes that fly.

Four for the guns of this war.

Three’s for these warships at sea.

Two's for the love of me and you.

One's for the pretty little baby

that’s born, born, born and gone away.

Oh, will you come when I call you?

I’ll come when you call me.

I’ll call you half-past ten.

Ten for the atom bomb loose again.

Nine for the crippled and blind.

Eight for my eight billion graves.

Seven for continents blowed up.

Six for the cities all wrecked.

Five's for these warplanes that fly.

Four's for the guns of this war.

Three’s for these warships at sea.

Two's for the love of me and you.

One's for the pretty little baby

that’s born, born, born and gone away.

Words by Woody Guthrie, 1949
Music by Lorin Sklamberg (Klezmatics), 2005
Words © Copyright 2001 Woody Guthrie Publications, Inc.

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Hello everybody,

I´ve started this blog to share some of the music I make in the several different projects I am currently involved in (or was, why not?) and also to discuss interesting topics related to all things folk.

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For now, I leave you with....


The Klezmatics

The Klezmatics are globally-renowned world music superstars — and the only klezmer band to win a Grammy award. The Klezmatics emerged out of the vibrant cultural scene of New York City’s East Village in 1986 with klezmer steeped in Eastern European Jewish tradition and spirituality, while incorporating contemporary themes such as human rights and anti-fundamentalism and eclectic musical influences including Arab, African, Latin and Balkan rhythms, jazz and punk. In the course of over twenty years and nine albums they have stubbornly continued making music that is wild, mystical, provocative, reflective and ecstatically danceable.

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