B.G., The Anna Karenina Quartet: Soulful songs (Квартет Анны Карениной. Задушевные песни)

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Track Listing

  1. Bargelda's Mirror
  2. Morning in the Pine Forest
  3. Captain Voronin Meets the Giant Ant
  4. Tremularch
  5. Flutes of the House of Anakreontov
  6. Advantage Natasha Rostova
  7. The Life, Death, and Other Miraculous Deeds of the Great Anakhorete
  8. My Childhood in the Bitter Hut
  9. Big Strepetarch Goes Out Hunting
  10. Horse, What's Your Name?
  11. Moscow Subway Hymn
  12. The White Birch Rides High In The Saddle Again
  13. Sunrise on Apple Island

Musicians

  1. Boris Grebenshikov
  2. Andrei Romanov
  3. Andrei Reshetin
  4. Sergei Schurakov
  5. Oleg Sakmarov
  6. Alexei Zubarev
  7. Sergei Beryozovoi
  8. Lord A. Ratsen

The equivalent of Eno's Music for Airports period. Groovy in a way that someone who's been in the far north of the far east far too long might appreciate. I'm trying to develop a further appreciation of it during those rare moments when Lucy is not home to protest. Dzhrew says: "This has to suck." No. Not really. But it's not for the uninitiated or the right-in-the-head. First in the series of three "Aquarium Incognito" albums that see Boris and the guys going out on various strange, gnarled musical limbs.

First released in 1994.

Review by Dji

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Mad Washing Machines in the Next Apartment is one loooooong track of tumbling socks. Ambient Karenina has tumbling socks driven over by trucks carrying Irish fiddle players engaged in courtly romance with multiple flautists whose earrings praise the buddha by chiming together every time the heads that are wearing them choose to disappear...

But that's just my first impression. Give me a couple of years of listening time and I'll have more to say.

Wish me luck, though, because the album should bear a warning label: Do not listen to this album whilst walking to work! Those truck horns I heard this morning... were they live or were they Karemorex?

AK Reactions from sundry Bodhisattvas:

Dzhubchik: I bought AK once at the smelly, now-defunct Mos-Film shop. Then I left it on a train. Whoever found it is either out of their mind or enlightened.

k.p. tikka-ri: Quartet with acoustic guitar, flute, washing machine and vacuum cleaner! And still I paid 350 roubles [for] it last August in St. Petersburg, so I like it a lot. I do not compare it to Bardo... Do you know the Mitki-Maier-video? It's a soundtrack by BG & there's many familiar songs given the Anna Karenina-treatment in it…