Musics of the Soviet Union

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Very little indigenous music from the former Soviet Union is known to the West. This recording, from 1988, offers a rich sampling from many of the more than 100 ethnic groups within this vast region. The record begins with passionate Lithuanian lullabies and proceeds through ancient seasonal and ceremonial village songs from southern and northern Russia and the asymmetrical dance rhythms performed by Estonian bagpipers. From the distant Mongolian frontier, the amazing art of Tuvan multiphonic "throat singing" can be heard as well as the richly harmonic male choral singing still practiced in Georgia. "...[A] compelling taste of sounds from a country with a huge amount of indigenous music..." — Option

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101	Lithuanian Lullaby	Veronika Povilioniene	1:16
102	Lithuanian Lullaby	Veronika Povilioniene	2:56
103	Estonian Bagpipe Music	Estonian bagpipe music	1:14
104	South Russian solo song from Belgorod Province	M.K. Mal´tseva leading vocal ensemble from Podserednee	1:56
105	South Russian wedding dance song from Belgorod Province	M.K. Mal´tseva leading vocal ensemble from Podserednee	1:35
106	North Russian wedding greeting song from Arkhangelsk Province	Kamenka village ensemble	5:05
107	North Russian wedding lament	Evdokiia Alexandrovna Oreshkina	1:15
108	North Russian lyric song	Singers from the village of Shostova Gora in Arkhangelsk province	6:03
109	Tuvan folk melody	S.B. Manchakai	1:35
110	Song from Khomeizhi	M.C. Daknai	2:37
111	Azerbaijani classical mugam	Bayat-i Kurd	7:16
112	Georgian song	Lile song and dance ensemble of the Lintekhskii House of Culture	3:00
113	Georgian song	Gugava Dzohkia	2:48
114	Georgian wedding song	Lile song and dance ensemble of the Lintekhskii House of Culture	2:42

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