Muslim Magomajev and Big Children's Choir – New Day
The new year begins with “New Day” (Novyy den’), fully titled Новый день (наша Родина – Революция, ей единственной мы верны): The Revolution is our Motherland, and we are loyal to her alone.
Blue and Red
Lyrics (see here) by Nikolai Dobronravov (= Николай Добронравов, 1928). Music by Aleksandra Pakhmutova (= Александра Пахмутова, 1929). Also see Наша Родина – революция (rline.tv, 2017).
Новый день берёт своё начало, The new day takes its start
На бескрайних улицах Москвы. In the endless streets of Moscow.
Никогда у неба не бывало, Never before did the sky
Глаз такой влюблённой синевы, Have the eye of such loving blue.
Performed by Muslim Magomajev (= Муслим Магомаев, 1942) and the Большой детский хор Всесоюзного радио и Центрального телевидения (Big Children’s Choir of All-Union Radio and Central Television), V.S. Popov’s Big Children’s Choir of Russia Today Media. The footage in the second clip is from the 50th anniversary (1967) of the October Revolution.
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Also check out the version with (via Settings) English subtitles, plus videos with Russian space exploration (2012) or American looters (2020).
Most of the music here is also available in an
R1 playlist on YouTube (in the order of posting).
See also
Best Russian Music and
Russian Song Lyrics.
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Music
Anyone who wants to present Russian music cannot ignore Zemfira. Popular and mainstream – millions of records sold – but also distinctly idiosyncratic. The music is usually accessible (we categorize it under Pop), but the attitude is rock.
Raw Anti-Putin punk from
Nizhny Novgorod /
Нижний Новгород. Loosely based on ‘Maggie’ by The Exploited.
From the green city of
Zelenograd /
Зеленоград. Dreamy indie-folk with a melancholic undertone. Created by
Mikhail Rodionov (1992).
The alarm blares (Ревёт тревога), the road awaits (ждёт дорога). They are many (Их немало), we are few (нас немного). We are in an unjust world (Мы в несправедливом мире) tin wolves in the shooting range (Жестяные волки в тире).
The word offret is Swedish and means ‘sacrifice’; the band Offret is Russian and makes heavy music. The link between the word and the band: a
1986 film in Swedish by the Russian Andrei Tarkovsky.
A band from Saint Petersburg that makes a kind of post-punk/indie-pop. Not for long yet, so not much material yet. However, they already have a few very successful tracks with original music videos. До свиданья, дорогая is the
Russian title for the film
The Goodbye Girl (1977), but it has nothing to do with it.
