Десять стрел на десяти ветрах Лук, сплетенный из ветвей и трав Он придет издалека Меч дождя в его руках
desyat' strel na desyati vetrakh, luk spletenniy iz vertvej i trav on pridet izdaleka
mech dozhdya vego rukahk
и не медленно выпили
on one hand, this is both extremely friendship of peoples "increase levels of national dress to 11" also extremely VIA, but in a good way
ВИА "Айгуль" is my new "very much not available on spotify" vintage music jam
why arent the people at whatever owns Melodia's back catalogue republishing this
in some ways i want to say this reminds me of slower white+ with more guitars
but chronologically i guess it should be that white+ reminds me of faster hualun with less guitars
asked a prominent american scholar when their new book about russian popular music from the late 80s to the present day will be out
apparently it's delayed several months because the (russian) publisher like, actually needs to sit down with the relevant organs and confirm what they need to strike from the original text to avoid getting labeled an inoagent or whatever
it's a book about fucking music culture goddamnit (okay, there's a bit of academic discourse about whether the more ah... state-friendly acts are complicitly building fascism, but still). i hate this world
anyway, the "the best rap group in china" bit from the SMZB docu is evergreen relevant