There would be something inappropriate about a long, involved text dedicated to the work of Scaly Whale. The keyword here is "simplicity": Scaly Whale is a one-man outfit whose music is replete with the naive hopes and fears of childhood. Although, by way of example, a fair collection of his wor...
A quick overview of instrumental music in Anglo pop culture shows that its heyday as a marketable format on 45s was arguably in the 1960s and '70s. The subsequent evolution of electronica and club culture led to longer instrumental forms that were unsuitable for radio. In Russia, too (if we excl...
Classifying instrumental music for a portal such as this, especially when we're talking about melodies from another cultural tradition, is tricky. Although we've voted to box this recording as "electronic," one could easily argue that it's better suited to another category, given the foregroun...
