Musics of the Soviet Union

The musical selections on this album represent the styles of musicians who came to Washington, DC, in the summer of 1988 for the 22nd annual Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife, offering 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 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

Track Listing

101	Lithuanian Lullaby (To Make Children Laugh) Veronika Povilionienė	01:16
102	Lithuanian Lullaby Veronika Povilionienė	02:56
103	Estonian Bagpipe Music Estonian bagpipe player	01:14
104	South Russian Solo Song from Belgorod Province M.K. Maltseva	01:56
105	South Russian Wedding Dance Song from Belgorod Province M.K. Maltseva	01:35
106	North Russian Wedding Greeting Song from Arkhangelsk Province Folk ensemble of the village of Kamenka, Mezensky district	05:05
107	North Russian Wedding Lament Evdokiia Alexandrovna Oreshkina	01:15
108	North Russian Lyric Song Singers from the village of Shostova Gora, Arkhangelsk Province	06:03
109	Tuvan Folk Melody S.B. Manchakai	01:35
110	Song from Khomeizhi M.C. Daknai	02:37
111	Azerbaijani Classical Mugam Bayat-i Kurd	07:16
112	Georgian Song (1) Lile song and dance ensemble of the Lintekhskii House of Culture	03:00
113	Georgian Song (2) Gugava Dzohkia	02:48
114	Georgian Wedding Song Lile song and dance ensemble of the Lintekhskii House of Culture	02:42