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MIR 100449LP
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2014 reissue of Russian singer and poet Yuri Loza's 1983 debut album Puteshestvie V Rock-n-Roll (Journey to Rock'n'Roll). When this album originally appeared, rock 'n' roll was as scandalous in Russia as it was in the U.S. during the 1950s, and Puteshestvie V Rock-n-Roll shocked many upon its release. Its bare-bones aesthetic, with only voice, two guitars, and a drum machine, resembles a kind of Russian pub rock, with positive, comical lyrics about the harsh realities of everyday life in the Soviet Union. "Devochka v bare (A Girl in the Bar)" became a 1983 club hit throughout the USSR, though the media derided it as tasteless. Puteshestvie V Rock-n-Roll has since become a legendary cult recording, and is now reissued with a previously unreleased track, "Kubik-Rubik (Rubik's Cube)." This reissue also includes an inner sleeve printed with some original Russian media reactions to the album. Pressed on 180-gram vinyl.
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MIR 100451LP
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2014 reissue of Russian singer and poet Yuri Loza's 1985 album Toska (The Spleen). Loza's music has been described as a Russian version of British pub rock, and this comparison is particularly apt with this song cycle, which won Loza widespread acceptance after his controversial 1983 debut, Puteshestvie V Rock-n-Roll (Journey to Rock'n'Roll) (MIR 100449LP). Its highly melodic songs incorporate more than a few traditional Russian elements, and its straightforward arrangements and lyrics about simple, everyday life made it a sweeping success with the Russian people. This collection of modern Russian folk songs is now reissued on vinyl for the first time, remastered from the original master tapes. Pressed on 180-gram vinyl; includes printed inner sleeve.
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