Ed Prizant - three albums
I’m afraid I’m going to have to plead ignorance when it comes to Russian bard music. As I understand it, Bard Music is sung poetry usually accompanied by a guitar. The lyrics are centered on Russian life or has potilical concerns. One of my readers was kind enough to point out these three free and legal albums by Ed Prizant, a young musician that stays in the tradition of this music. The web site is in Russian but with the help of the not-so-reliable Babelfish I’ve translated the album titles to Step From The Love (2007), Fire of The Large City (2004), and My Clownish Desire (2001). (Update: Mr. Prizant has replied and given me the corect title translations; One Step Away From Love, Big City Lights, and My Buffoon Majesty) These albums are difficult to review as the lyrics are so essential to this music and my Russian vocabulary is limited to “Vodka”. However I find Prizant’s voice quite expressive and have no trouble enjoying these very melodic songs despite the language barrier. Check out these three albums. You will not be disappointed.
Again we have albums available in lower than usual bitrate; 64kbps Mp3. However they still sound pretty good and shouldn’t distract too much from your enjoyment.
Here is a approch to the titles of the tracks of the 2007 album I would say “Step Of Pleasure”.
Translated from russian to german by help of a dictionary and the into english by www.leo.org dictionary.
I hope it is near the real meaning.
01 - Knock-out
02 - Rock N’ Roll on
03 - Cockroaches
04 - For Now She Is With You
05 - Speak To Me
06 - To Konstantin
07 - luna!!s
07 - On The Way To Heaven
08 - Princess
09 - Step Of Pleasure
10 - Song For Shenia
11 - Song Of Raccon-like Tomcat
12 - Depaint Me (Womans Song)
13 - Dislike
14 - And I Was There (Epilog)
The album is in 128 kbps. Sounds good.
And thank you for the effort to find all this good and free music. Regards, Helmut
Comment by Helmut — June 26, 2008 @ 6:20 pm
Hey, you featured it - cool :)
Here’s another link: translations and recordings of many songs of the famous Vladimir Vysotsky. Click on the link under every title to get the original Russian text and a RealPlayer sound file.
“In the far-away galaxy of Tau-Whale
Something freaky has been going on.
We send them a signal: What are you, nuts?
And they…They send us somewhere else…”
Comment by 'One of your readers' — June 28, 2008 @ 11:28 am
Thank you for the article. I was pleasantly surprised to find it while searching for something under my name.
The name of albums are:
1. One step away from love
2. Big city lights
3. My buffoon majesty
Songs of ‘One step away from love’
01 - Knock-out
02 - Rock N’ Roll on the leash
03 - Cockroaches
04 - While She Is With You
05 - Talk To Me
06 - To Konstantina (Greek’s ladies name)
07 - On The Way To Heaven
08 - Princess
09 - One step away from love
10 - Song For Senya
11 - Song Of Main Coon
12 - Paint Me (Womans Song)
13 - Un-love
14 - And I Was There (Epilog)
Thanks again and happy Holidays! :-)
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Comment by Ed Prizant — December 1, 2008 @ 8:55 pm
Thanks, Ed!
Comment by Marvin — December 2, 2008 @ 5:37 am