Volga / Волга

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Ambient, Ambient Dub, Dark ambient, Downbeat, Drone, Electroacoustic, Electronic, Field Recordings, Folk, Folktronica, Harsh Noise, Indiefolk, Industrial, Sci-Fi

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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!

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...

Velena: Evoking the Saddest of Traditions - in Search of Consolation

Velena is/are an excellent duo from St Petersburg, consisting of Vera Ogareva (above, right) and Elena Novikova (left). Their names may sound a little familiar to readers of this site, since both woman began their musical careers with a local outfit discussed more than once by us: the "turbo fol...

The Return of Musica Excentrica!

After several months' silence, there is today very good news that the netlabel Musica Excentrica will reappear. Ahead of an official relaunch, the label's organizers, Nikita Golyshev Ilias Mikanaev, and Vlad Interesnyy have today posted seven wonderful podcasts, six of which are linked to the...

Volga: Live in Berlin and Leipzig

Having written about Volga previously on this site, we shall dispense with biographies and group histories. Suffice it to say that the lineup is Angela Manukian, Iurii Balashov, Aleksei Borisov, and Roman Lebedev. To give some idea of growing interest in the band overseas, primarily through...

Volga: "A Touch of Pagan Psychedelia"

Fun on the farm. The picture above was taken at a recent festival staged by Russia's best-known rock station, "Nashe radio" (Our radio). These gym rats are rockin' out to a performance by Volga, who define their work as "Slavic psychedelia that encompasses new global folk music." That do...