Breaking Free: A Century of Russian Culture
Nick Luscombe digs into 100 years of experimentalism to mark October Revolution Day. Expect futurism, throat singing, and free jazz, with a celebration of All-Russian Music.
To mark the centenary of the October Revolution, which began on 7th November 1917, presenter Nick Luscombe digs into 100 years of Russian experimentalism.
The 大象传媒 has commissioned programmes across television and radio, spanning art, culture, and politics, to examine this revolutionary moment and its continued impact on society.
Tonight Late Junction celebrates the underground, the avant-garde, the suppressed, the suspect, and the subversive music that emerged from tumultuous times in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia.
Hear futurist experiments with sound and phonetics, Music On Ribs, free jazz, Sots Art, Tuvan throat singing, and Soviet synthesizers. Particular attention is also paid to the country's contemporary electronic music scene, with tracks from Kate NV, HMOT and Pixelord.
Produced by Jack Howson for Reduced Listening.
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Breaking Free: A Century of Russian Culture
大象传媒 Radio 3's exploration of the 1917 Russian Revolution and its cultural reverberations.
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Vladimir Resnikoff
The volga boatman's song
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Arthur Louri茅
2 Kolibeln'ya (2 Berceuses) No. 1. Pussy-cat, don't go there...
Performer: Jascha Nemtsov. Lyricist: 袗薪薪邪 袗褏屑邪褌芯胁邪. Singer: Verena Rein.- Russian Songs.
- Profil.
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Kate NV
Thinking
- 蝎.
- Orange Milk.
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Fanny Kaplan
shema ustarela sekundu nazad #2
- vsjo dozvoleno ili net.
- Self-released.
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Mikael Tariverdiev
Moscow Morning
- Olga Sergeevna (Soundtrack).
- Earth UK.
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Vladimir Shainsky
Chunga-Changa
- Katerok (Soundtrack).
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Sofia Gubaidulina
Vivente - Non Vivente
- Electroshock Presents Electroacoustic Music Volume IV: Archive Tapes Synthesizer.
- Electroshock Records.
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Komar & Melamid
The Most Unwanted Song (Fewer Than 200 Individuals Of The World's Total Population Will Enjoy This)
- The People's Choice Music.
- Dia Center For The Arts.
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Pyotr Leshchenko
Stakanchik
- X-Ray Audio.
- X-Ray Audio.
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Kosichkin Tapes
Side A
- Kosichkin Tapes.
- Klammklang.
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Hmot
Catharsis
- Our Golden Age Is Now.
- Klammklang.
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Albert Kuvezin
Song to the Spirits
- 大象传媒 RECORDING, JULY 2010, BANKS OF THE YENNESEY.
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Yanka
My Sorrow Is Luminous
- Angedonia.
- BSA Records.
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Sergey Kuryokhin & Boris Grebenshchikov
Mad Nightingales In The Russian Forest
- Mad Nightingales In The Russian Forest.
- Leo Records.
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Ganelin Trio
Live In East Germany (Excerpt)
- Live In East Germany.
- Leo Records.
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Phurpa
Live in St. Petersburg (feat. Alissa Nicolai)
- Mantras of B枚n.
- Zoharum.
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Yuri Morozov
Avidia
- Strange Angels.
- Buried Treasure Records.
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Vladimir Komarov
Voice Of Theremin
Featured Artist: Lydia Kavina. Featured Artist: 袥械胁 小械褉谐械械胁懈褔 孝械褉屑械薪.- Music From The Ether - Original Works For Theremin.
- Mode.
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Holly & Pixelord
Want To See You
- Near Field: Region 001.
- Renraku.
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Dziga Vertov
Enthusiasm - Excerpt 1
- Enthusiasm: The Symphony of Donbass.
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Dziga Vertov
Enthusiasm - Excerpt 8
- Enthusiasm: The Symphony of Donbass.
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Jan Ryhalsky
The Wall of an Abandoned Silo
- Iron Skeletons.
- LOM.
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Dmitry Evgrafov
Kintsukuroi (feat. Beno卯t Pioulard)
- Comprehension of Light.
- 130701.
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Komar & Melamid
The Most Wanted Song (A Musical Work That Will Be Unavoidably And Uncontrollably "Liked" By 72 卤 12% Of Listeners)
- The People's Choice Music.
- Dia Center For The Arts.
Broadcast
- Tue 7 Nov 2017 23:00大象传媒 Radio 3
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