bulgaaria

seni olen püüdnud üles laadida ja mängida melodija vinüüle nõukogude liidu muusikaga. aga melodija andis välja ka palju väljaspoolset muusikat. kindlasti on meil kodudes aukohal erinevad poolbootlegid läänepoolsemate artistidega, biitlitest kuni itaalia lüürikuteni. minu jaoks on aga huvitavamad obskuursemad muusikamaad, eelkõige siis ida-euroopa muusika. neid on tihtipeale lihtne leida ka, sest eestlaste kogudesse jõudsid sotsmaade plaadid tihedamini kui vennasrahvaste omi. head tuttavad on kindlasti Ekspress ungarist, Skaldowie poolast, Sofia bulgaariast, ABC ja Sase Subota jugoslaaviast jne.
üks hea plaat on ka 10tollisel vinüülil ilmunud Bulgaaria lauljatari Lili Ivanova album, aastast 1968. ilma pildiümbriseta vinüüli leiab meilt üpris tihti. tasub ära ka osta. tänu õigele aastaarvule on plaadil meeldivaid lugusid. olen kuulanud ta kodulehelt erinevaid heliklippe ja tundub, et see kogumik ongi peaaegu parim tema vinüülidest. plaadil mitmed versioonid lääne lugudest nagu "Bang bang" või Spencer Davis Groupi loost "Gimme Some Lovin", viimase laadisin üles kuulamiseks ka. loomulikult on lahe, et lood on bulgaaria keeles. üks tore rütmikas lugu on ka originaal "Trudnijat tanc".
Lili Ivanova oli ja on superstaar Bulgaarias ja ka Nõukogude Liidus, esinenud palju ka Euroopas. meie õnneks saadi temaga lindistada ka need toredad lood.

teatan ka seda, et täna on teisipäeval mängin raadio 2 saates Muusikat nõudlikule maitsele Bulgaaria vinüüle, põhiliselt Bulgaaria plaadifirma Balkanton toodangut, kuid ka ühe loo sellelt plaadilt. karta on, et ka järgmises mu blogi postituses pühapäeval on üks lugu bulgaaria artisti esituses!

Melodiya didn't release only music by Soviet Union artists. there were semi-bootlegs by western artists, but also many records by Eastern Bloc artists. latter are more interesting for me, as i'm collecting generally eastern european records. most of that kind Melodiya releases are pretty easy to come by in estonia, looks like estonians prefered to buy unknown yugoslavian artists melodiya lp than for example copy of next album by Ukrainian rockers. of course, they were easier to buy too.
as i am doing guest radio show about Bulgarian and Balkanton records and few tracks are played from Melodiya too. like this one by Bulgarian superstar Lili Ivanova. thankfully in 60s she had great orchestra playing for her. this 10" lp is from 1968 and has some great songs in true Bulgarian ye-ye girl style. some nice covers like "Bang Bang" or Spencer Davis Group "Gimme Some Lovin", which i have uploaded. there's also one good original song on it, uptempo track called "Hard Dance", i'll play it today in radio show (which i'll probably upload here too).

vahanukk

let's end this year with this cover song! i just found it yesterday from 10" compilation. i have had this record for a while, but now just realized about this cover. it's most disturbing cover in russian at the moment. maybe tomorrow i'll already like it. singer is Muslim Magomaev, soviet superstar. enjoy! happy new year!

yes, Muslim Magomaev, soviet male singer, is covering in Russian winning song from Eurovision 1965 - "Poupée de cire, poupée de son", written by Serge Gainsbourg and originally performed by lovely French singer France Gall. it's great song originally, now i don't hate this cover, but it's pretty odd.

sinine kutsikas

tõenäoliselt on üks tuntumaid meloodia lasteplaate "bremeni linna moosekandid". näiteks minu isa plaatide hulgas oli see ainus lasteplaat, lisaks lugege seda kiitust. nii väga funky see ka pole, aga lahedat surfrocki on seal küll. see pani uurima, kes on kirjutanud muusika või kes esitab. nii et keegi Gladkov. järelikult võis ta veel lasteplaatidele muusikat teha, jätsin nime meelde, vaatasin turul kõik lasteplaadid läbi ja ostsin kaks tema nimega plaati. see sinine kutsikas oli põnevam. alguses ei saanudki ma aru, et tegu on hoopis multika soundtrackiga. nii et plaadil on kogu multika heliriba, aga lisatud on siis jutustaja osa.
uurige wikipediast multika tausta, väga huvitav. vaadake youtube'st venekeelset multikat. kuulake parimat lõiku plaadi pealt.

probably most well-know melodiya children record is "bremen town musicians" for it's quite contemporary sounding music, influences of surf and rock'n'roll. so i found out, who was composer and searched for other children records by him. from market i got two g. gladkov records, and this one was best. "blue puppy" was cartoon and you can read about it at wiki. this 10" record is practically all the soundtrack of film with added narrator. i recorded best track from record. you can also watch cartoon itself from youtube, after you have read from wiki, it won't be too hard too understand, great style of animation anyway.

Blue Puppy - Wikipedia

kalade ambient

üks uskumatumaid plaate minu kogus. olgem ausad, ma täpselt ei teagi, mis see on. pealkirja järgi kalade heli- ja bioelektrilised signaalid. välja kostab nagu mingi glitch elektroonika. ainult mingid piuksud. aphex twin. tundub, et kalad teevad suurepärast muusikat. proto minimal techno? täpselt ei oska öelda, mis kala seda teeb, aga kasutades legendaarset "loomade elu", tundub see olema mingi kotkaskala.

probably one of weirdest melodiya records. of course, one can say breznev and lenin speeches are weird, well, actually they are only sad history. yuri gagarin in space, well, that's just really cool record. this record is named as "sound and bioelectrical signals of fish". though it's educational record, you still can take it as music. if you listen to my sound clip, you might see some similarities with output of ambient and minimal electronic artists minds. kind of proto aphex twin, isn't it? other clips are even more primitive bleeps and clicks. i don't much about fishes, so hard to translate what you can hear, it's first side and 6th track.

update 10.07.09:
whole record is now made available by russian techno label Compromat:
Fish: Acoustic signals
Fish: Bioelectrical Signals

märtsis mai

millist teist laulu võiksin ma tänasel päeval postitada kui mitte marju laulu "nendele, kes sündisid mais". ma arvan, et mul ei ole midagi normaalset kirjutada siia. palun ostke marju laserplaate. kaks viimast kogumikku sisaldavad tõsiselt head muusikat. ärge heitke ka meelt tema vinüülide leidmisel. sellesama aastaajad vinüüli leidsin ma aastaid tagasi vanaema juurest kapi alt. sellest samast kastist, kust ükskord sai ka rumalast peast mängimise eesmärgil plaate võetud, mäletan, et näiteks mu õde istus mõne katki, hehe. mulle on ka see plaat väga meeldinud, mulle meeldib selle kontseptuaalsus, praktiliselt iga kuu kohta on ju laul. (veel üks mu lemmik eesti lugusid on loomulikult "märtsis algas mai"). nautige tänast kena päeva!

maybe you know that best estonian singer is marju. maybe you know her vinyl records might gather a lot of money at ebay. so you should check out itunes or some other netstores for her music, because there's a lot of great music available also for affordable prices. i got this 10" LP from box under my grandparent's cupboard many years ago and i have loved it since then. aastaajad means seasons in estonian and every song is about one month. i have soft spot for that song, called "to those born in may" for some reason ;)