Black Bread 4/22/08

Underground rock and experimental noise from the USSR, Czechoslovakia, Poland, and the Baltics

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Black Bread 4/8/08

Ukrainian folk, pop, rock, punk, undeground

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Black Bread 3/25/08

Classic Soviet songs and Russian Rock

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1. Soviet National Anthem
2. Stalin anounces victory over Germany
4. Товарищ Сталин - Юз Алешковский (Comrade Stalin - Yuz Aleshkovsky)
3. Synyi platochik - the blue handkerchief (WWII song)
4. Katiusha
5. Na bolshom karetnom - Vladimir Vysotsky
6. moi adres sov soiuz (pro bomzhov)
7. Auktsyon
8. idu, kuriu (I walk, I smoke) - Nol'
9. Guinea Pigs Tango - Aleksei Aigi and 4'33"
10. mobilnik - Leningrad
11. grob - Khvost' i Auktsion
12. gde zhe ty bladky? - Leningrad
13. utekai - Mummy Troll
14. Yanka Dyagileva
15. Egor Letov
16. Grazhdanskaya Oborona
17. beziadernaya zona - Kino
18. vladivostok 2000 - Mumy troll
19. pod nebom golubym - akvarium
20. Temnaia noch'
21. Oi, tumany, rastumany (Oh, Mists! Oh, Foggy Dew!) - Piatnitsky Chorus - Folkways Records: Russian Folk Songs
22. prinesi menja reka
23. videli noch' - Kino
24. do svidania, Tanya - Vladimir Vysotsky
25. Birthday comes but once a year - Krokodil Gena

Russian Folk Songs: Black Bread with special guest Karen Bovard

03/11/08
Special guest Karen Bovard of Middletown talks about her experience 12 days spent on a folkloric expedition in the village of Morechovo, Russia and plays us some of her field recordings of "screamers," chastushki "limericks," and "he done me wrong" songs.

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Black Bread 02/26/08

vocal and instrumental polyphony in the Baltics, the Caucasus, the Balkans, and Togo!

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Playlist:

1. Saulala - Veronika Povilionienė ir Blezdinga - Parlek Blezdinga
2. Kas tar teka - Veronika Povilionienė ir Blezdinga - Parlek Blezdinga
3. Ka tu, bitela - Trys keturiose - Sutartinės CD 1
4. Liaj, sese, liaj, pana - Trys keturiose - Sutartinės CD 1
5. Skranc Biteale - Ensemble Gadula - Lithuanie
6. Išsivedžiau oželį, tatatėla - Jievaras - Sutartinės CD 1
7. sutartine - Artistes Lituaniens - Voix Des Pays Baltes
8. Intakas - Various Artists - Lituanie - Le Pays Des Chansons
9. Penkiese - Griežikai - Sutartinės CD 1
10. Danses de la Pluie - Village de Sara-Kawa - Collection Radiodiffusion Outre-Mer: Musique Kabrè du Nord-Togo
11. Voix de primptemps - Artistes Latviens- Voix Des Pays Baltes
12. Voix des laboureurs - Artistes Latviens - Voix Des Pays Baltes
13. preparatifs - Artistes Estoniens (Setu) - Voix Des Pays Baltes
14. des parents - Artistes Estoniens (Setu) - Voix Des Pays Baltes
15. presages - Artistes Estoniens (Setu) - Voix Des Pays Baltes
16. Lyrical polyphonic song - Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic - Musical Atlas - UNESCO Collection: Musical Folklore of the Byelorussian Polessye
17. don't awake me - Folk Choir of the "Rassvet" Kolkhoz - Russian Folk Songs and Tunes of Belgorod region
18. Вспомним Братцы-Сталинградцы - Русичи - Не Посрамим Земли Руской
19. Gonja (Weather Song, K'akheti) - Ensemble Mzetamze - Traditional Songs Of Georgian Women - Vol I
20. Basiani (Georgian men's choir)
21. Ali P'asha - Men's Chorus of Hayrire Village - Georgian Folk Music from Turkey
22. Vosa Vorera - Men's Chorus of Hayrire Village - Georgian Folk Music from Turkey
23. Tirini Horerama - Men's Chorus of Hayrire Village - Georgian Folk Music from Turkey
24. Aerg - The Golden Fleece - Songs From Abkhazia & Adzharia
25. Akruashaga - The Golden Fleece - Songs From Abkhazia & Adzharia
26. Shvidkatsa - The Golden Fleece - Songs From Abkhazia & Adzharia
27. Madlobeli Vart - The Golden Fleece - Songs From Abkhazia & Adzharia
28. Alhsmonw kai xairomai (I forget and am glad) - Syllogos pros Diadosin ths Ethnikhs Mousikhs - Songs of Epirus
29. Deropolitisa - Syllogos pros Diadosin ths Ethnikhs Mousikhs - Songs of Epirus
30. Fradza vearde di sicara (Aromanian)
31. Rrofsh sa moshë e kësaj toke - Grupi i Bënçës (Albanian)
32. Ganga: Odkad Seke Nismo Zapjevale - Rahima, Mejra, and Habiba Sultanić - Bosnia Echoes From An Endangered World
33. Dai Se Vase Rachisata/To A Bouquet - Bisserov Sisters And Nadka Karadjova - Bulgarian Polyphony III

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Bakhtinian polyphony

Black Bread 02/12/08

Little Water's annual
Bagpipe Blowout
OR
Dudes of Duda
OR
Gajda Guys

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Playlist

1. Valle e gadhes - Folk Music of Albania
2. Gutsul Kolomyika - Ethnic Folkways Library: Music of the Ukraine
3. Kozachok - Ethnic Folkways Library: Music of the Ukraine
4. Sajaju - Recorded in Hungary 1903-1939 under the supervision of Bela Bartok - Ethnic Folkways Library: Hungarian Folk Songs
5. Vasvari - Recorded in Hungary 1903-1939 under the supervision of Bela Bartok - Ethnic Folkways Library: Hungarian Folk Songs
6. Hora oltaneasca - Romania
7. Hora de Mina - Romania
8. Schioapa - Romania
9. Staro Planinsko - Serbia
10. Graovsko Horo - Bulgaria (Sopluk) - www.dunav.org.il
11. Pomasko Sirto - Bulgaria
12. Starceska Racenica - Bulgaria
13. The Green Room - Stamen Gardiev - field recording from Zlatne Uste Golden Festival, New York City 2007
14. Ferusko - Macedonia - www.dunav.org.il
15. Sadilo mome - Macedonia
16. Arap - Macedonia
17. Koackata - Macedonia
18. Vourgarouda - syrto kalamatiano (Bulgarian girl) - Society for the Dissemination of National Music - Songs of Eastern Macedonia
19. Simera Despo m' paskhalia - "Today is Easter" Paschal dance - Society for the Dissemination of National Music - Songs of Western Macedonia
20. Mavro xelido - xoros (Black Swallow) - Society for the Dissemination of National Music - Songs of Thrace
21. Katou ston trano ton kampo - tragoudi tou therou (down in the broad plain - wheat harvesting song) - Society for the Dissemination of National Music - Songs of Thessaly II
22. Gaida - Music Of The Balkans : Vol. 3-Greece
23. Pidichtos - Crète - Grèce - Chansons Et Danses Populaires
24. Anevaseme mana mou -siganos kai trexatos (Lift me, Mother!) Society for the Dissemination of National Music - Songs of Mytilene and Chios
25. Tik - Pontic Greek
26. Embropis - Haris Kazanzidis - Dora Stratou Collection
27. Macka Yollari - Turkey
28. Rize-Pazar Oyunu Türkülü (Rize-Pazar Folk Dance Song) - Cevdet Topaloğlu, with tulum accompaniment (Laz) - Georgian Folk Music from Turkey
29. Артемий Воробьёв (Artemii Vorobyov, russian bagpipe player)
30. Dzianis, desan - Belarus dance
31. Hungarian duda (bagpipe) tune - Istvánfi Balázs
32. Hungarian Electric Bagpipe