Sarah Gorby - Chansons russes et tziganes

These songs where recorded back in the eraly seventhies. Title means (if you don't get the french) "russian and gypsy songs", indicating the typical communist distinction. Some of the songs in here are just a bit to bright and shiny for my taste, but there is also some very nice orchestration of some of the more melancholic themes, and some fabulous russian accordeon. The cover does however not provide any information about the performing artists other than, of course, Sarah Gorby.



[from cover] There can be no-one better than Sarah Gorby for interpreting these popular Russian and Gipsy songs which she collected and selected so lovingly, for Russia was the land or her childhood and Russian her mother-tongue.

With its exceptional sensitivity the voice of Sarah Gorby clearly expresses the feelings of the Russian soul : melancholy, violence and nostalgia, the language of passion, the sponta-neous appeal which is both strong and gentle in these popular songs whose synthesis engendeed Russian lyrical writing. In its sincerity are to be found the gravity, the emotion, the fervour and all the riches of the Slav soul.



sarah Gorby died in 1980



01. Chante, Chante [Sing, Sing]

02. Chant Dans la Plaine [Sing in the Plain]

03. Lumieres Lointaines [Distant Lights]

04. Deux Guerriers [Two Warriors]

05. Miracle, Miracle

06. Ne Me Parlez Pas de Lui [Do Not Talk to Me About Him]

07. Vie Tzigane [Gypsy Life]

08. Mains [Hands & Feet Mix]

09. Obier en Fleurs [The Guelder-Rose in Bloom]

10. Tu Ne M'As Jamais Aimee [You Have Never Loved Me]

11. Nostalgie

12. On Raconte [It Is Said]

13. Gaida Troika

14. Parfum des Lilas [The Scent of Lilacs]

15. Assez! Separons-Nous! [Enough! Let Us Part!]

16. Colporteur [The Pedlar]

17. Nuit Est Silencieuse [The Night Is Silent]

18. Asters d'Automne [Autumn Asters]

19. Flammes Sont Eteintes [The Flames Have Died]

20. Chanson du Berger-Clochettes de la Troika [Shepherd's Song-Troika Bells]



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