Pelageia / Пелагея

RU

Adult contemporary, Aor, Celtic Rock, Classic rock, Folk, Folk rock, Neofolk, Prog, Rock, World Fusion

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Nachalo Veka: Saving a Folk Tradition from Angry Ethnographers

The new album by Volgograd folk-rock outfit Nachalo Veka was released online today. It does an admirable job of giving modern relevance to some traditional folk themes - and burying them in Nietzschean musings!

Pelageia: Twenty-One Songs Made for Patriots... and Loved by Pirates

A couple of months ago, Pelageia (Khanova) and her fellow musicians released an album called "Paths" (Tropy); it appeared on the heels of a maxi-single with the same name. Now, with almost frightening insistence, a double-CD has been published, bearing precisely the same title. It has just been pr...

Volga: The Unique Beauty of "Tough" Folktronica

Russia's most famous and fashionable exponent of folk music, Pelageia, recently said of Anzhela Manukian, vocalist with folktronica kingpins, Volga: "She's an absolutely crazy woman - in the good sense of the word! She's a really cool singer. She represents a widespread situation today... since Ru...

Pelageia and Shnur: New Albums, Enduring Issues of National Concern

On January 1st, 2010, just after midnight, a mildly satirical cartoon ran on Russian television, showing Medvedev and Putin dancing together on Red Square to a series of folkish couplets. Each figure made slight fun of the other, which led the press to wonder the reason for such sudden or unexpe...

Radio Maximum's "Russian Lessons": Three Sweeping Generalizations

Radio Maximum was founded on 25 December 1991, the same day that the Soviet Union ceased to exist. Within a couple of years it had moved to St Petersburg as well, thus beginning a long-lasting PR campaign designed to promote the "radio of Russia's two capitals." Another two years hence, in 1994,...

Pelageia: Various "Siberian Drives" and Diverging "Paths"

Pelageia is the shortened stage name for 23-year old Pelageia Khanova from Novosibirsk, a singer we've covered three times before in the past. Since that first mention, she has undoubtedly become Russia's most famous exponent of folk material in a popular, often rock-oriented register. As that i...

Zventa-Sventana: "Ethno-Acid-Jazz"

Zventa-Sventana revolve around two women, Tina Kuznetsova and Alena Romanova. Behind them - at least technically and managerially - stands Iurii Usachev, one half of pop wizards Gosti iz Budushchego (Future Visitors). The band has been together since 2005 and produced an album two years...