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Topic History of: Marc Almond- Orpheus in Exile (the songs of Vadim Kozin)
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david |
I was looking forward to this release and it doesn't disappoint.
Almond was interviewed on radio 4 and radio 2 about it and, surprisingly for such a non-mainstream release, people were enthusing about it on both stations.
It really is very good, here's the amazon write up, followed by a link to the album's microsite which has audio and video clips, which I highly recommend.
Hats off to Almond for yet again throwing caution to the wind and doing something he believes in.
"Marc Almond - a latter day curator of popular song - has rediscovered the songbook of Vadim Kozin. Kozin was the Soviet era's much-loved, exiled then forgotten singer of Gypsy Folk and Russian Torch Song Romances.
Almond discovered Kozin's work on his first visit to Russia in 1992 and was immediately taken with the purity and passion of his voice, as well as the beauty and melancholy of his songs, which are enhanced by the hardships Kozin suffered throughout his life. Marc has joined creative forces with Russian producer and musical arranger Alexei Fedorov who shares both Marc's love of Kozin and his aim to help bring his repertoire to a new audience. The songs have been specially translated for Marc and have never been sung in English before.
"Oprheus in Exile" was recorded and mixed in Moscow, and features Russia's most famous folk ensemble, Orchestra Rossiya, conducted by renowned arranger / conductor, Anatoly Sobolev. who arranged some of Kozin's songs for the orchestra.
The flamboyance and despair of Kozin is juxtaposed by the ever-present optimism of a lost genre of song. Marc gives these universal concerns an overdue airing on a unique album that gives the original songs an all-new big, classy and stylized orchestral production, yet stays true to the original feel and roots of the songs... "
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www.marcalmond.co.uk/orpheusmicro/index.htm |
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