a r t i s t : Ersatzmusika
t i t l e : Voice Letter
d a t e : 2007
l a b e l : asphalt tango
g e n r e : Folk
r l s. d a t e : Okt/2007
t r a c k s : 14
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 59,4 MB
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These 6 Berlin-based musicians spent a large proportion of
their lives in the USSR - that mythical and legendary place
beyond the iron stage curtain where Gypsies sing of woollen
boots, worshippers of Mammon decry broken hearts and glasses
sing paeans to lost love. And where, what's more, the
troubadour is an outlaw. Several band members have already
caused a sensation in the Moscow underground scene. They
immigrated to Berlin at the beginning of the nineties and have
been enriching the Russian diaspora with various musical
projects ever since. The multifaceted artist Irina
Doubrovskaja founded ErsatzMusika in 2006, also writing the
songs and lyrics for their debut album. Despite the remove
from dub, urban folk, world, minimalism and balladeering at
which ErsatzMusika stays, the group's music proves strangely
familiar to audiences of these musical strains. Yet their
music is not an eclectic lucky dip, but rather a collection of
acoustic letters in a strange vernacular, a
human-made-for-human ersatz for the sounds of information-age
intercourse. It goes out with love...
Musicians
Irina Doubrovskaja - Keyboards, Accordion, Vocal
Leonid Soybelman - Guitar
Mikhail Zhukov - Percussion
Sergey Vorontsov - Bass, Guitar, Vocal
Igor Vdovchenko - Bass, Harmonica
Roman Bushuev - Drums
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01-Beside myself to you I came [02:33]
02-Hey, Gangway! [03:58]
03-The gold prospector [02:22]
04-Still waters [03:44]
05-Antediluvian [02:35]
06-Bevelled glasses [01:54]
07-And why? [02:30]
08-Cranes [04:37]
09-Upon the earth [01:48]
10-Tsaritsino station [02:20]
11-The mushroom hunter [04:41]
12-Eh, Kalina [04:14]
13-Went and drank [03:14]
14-How here's how [04:02]
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44:32 min