by teepoo

Here’s an adorable track that will have you tapping your foot if you’re not singing along. Carrie Clark and the Lonesome Lovers from Oregon bring some enjoyable tunes that draws influence from many styles such as jazz, pop, cabaret with some country instrumentals at times. Her album Between the Bed Sheets & Turpentine will be released October 4th, 2011.
Carrie Clark and the Lonesome Lovers- Bum Bah Dum

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The Dust Engineers’is the recording project started off by Ernest Wheyton who resides in South Dakota, where his latest EP was recorded. Swallowed Up has that country twang but a more pop rock sort of feel. It’s a country psych rock of some some sort that has its hooks. You can order their limited cassette here and it only costs as much as the change in your pocket.
The Dust Engineers- Swallowed Up (And Washed Down)

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By Sweet Sound of Sunrise

Remember the first time you watched Gladiator and thought to yourself, “Wow, that’s a really epic soundtrack! Add that to a historical fiction filled with fighting and a love story…what more could you want?”

Well, maybe that didn’t happen to you but it did to me. And there have been few movies that led to the same reaction – historical films with really, really ridiculous good looking (?) soundtracks that stick in my head long after the movie is over are too just to hard to find these days.

The movie is about two men who fall in love with the same woman and, to make things even better, are on opposite sides of a war between the Polish nobles and the Zaporozhian Cossacks in one of the most tumultuous times in Polish and Ukrainian history. The original score, composed by Krzesmir Debski, reflects this. The tracks range from the sorrowful songs about lost love and the horrors of war to energetic songs about the heat of battle and victory – with, in true Eastern European tradition, some good old folk music in between to remind the listener that the soldiers were not apt to forget the simple things in life like eating, drinking and being merry.

Bitwa (Battle)

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Na Zielonej Ukrainie (On the Green Ukraine) – Traditional

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The following takes place at the Siege of Zbarazh.

by teepoo

Dust Lane is the 6th studio album by Yann Tiersen, most known for creating the beautiful music on the Amelie soundtrack. The album took 2 years to make and is a leap in sound on Tiersen’s part. Continue Reading

by teepoo

I’m so excited to see Apocalyptica on August 23 at Sound Academy. 7th Symphony comes out August 24th, but I got a chance to listen to it before hand. Continue Reading

By Sweet Sound of Sunrise


Think of typical folk music. And when I say folk music, I don’t mean protest songs from the 1960s. I mean Eastern European songs about the life of a soldier, women, and the country so old and familiar that everyone who speaks the language knows the lyrics. Then, pick a folk song you like and make it gratuitously epic by amassing a choir of men with powerful voices – and uniforms, of course – and make it sound like you’re about to march into battle. Now do it in Russian.

That’s the easiest way to describe the music of the Red Army Choir.

The Alexandrov Ensemble, more popularly (at least to slavophile history geeks, a.k.a. my friends) known as the Red Army Choir, has unclear origins, but it has been around since it began touring the Soviet Union in the late 1920s. The following years saw it evolve into a 300-member choir for three voices from its humble beginnings as a small group focusing on military songs. It soon began to receive international recognition. In 1937, it won the Grand Prix at the Exposition in Paris, France. The choir also toured extensively to entertain Soviet troops during the Second World War.

Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov conducted the Red Army Choir until his death in 1946, when he was succeeded by his son Boris. When Boris retired in 1987, Igor Agafonnikov took his place until 1994. His successor, Victor Federov, has been conducting the choir ever since.

One of the ensemble’s more noted soloists is the still-active Leonid Mikhailovich Kharitonov, who was particularly noted for his solo in the 1965 video for “The Song of the Volga Boatmen”.

The song is a traditional shanty depicting the hardships of barge-haulers, or burlaks, on the immense Volga river in Russia. They were extremely poor members of the peasant class whose work pulling barges became largely obsolete following the Industrial Revolution. It is said that the song was inspired by Ilya Repin’s famous realist painting, Barge Haulers on the Volga, pictured above.

Song of the Volga Boatmen – The Red Army Choir

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Since it was first popularized by Feodor Chaliapin in 1902, the song has gone beyond its original incarnation as a Russian folk song. Glenn Miller’s cover topped Billboard’s Best Sellers List – this was long before the Hot 100 – the week of March 15, 1941.