How well do you know Soviet songs? Russian musician Anton Tulsky revives old and popular songs in an original way trying to confuse the listeners by adding foreign sounds. Can you guess what songs ...
A Central Asian Soviet-era pop music anthology shines a light on the region's ethnic diversity and music that transcends genres from Korean Brass Bands to Uyghur garage rock to Crimean jazz.
(SOUNDBITE OF GULSHAN FEATURING MAKHFIRAT KHAMRAKULOVA SONG, "REZABORON") SOHONIE: There was not only a call from the very top to say, you know, you have to promote Soviet artists. It was Soviet ...
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Russia to relaunch Soviet-era Eurovision Song Contest rival in Moscow under Putin’s ordersLaunched under the former Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, the Intervision Song Contest took place in Czechoslovakia (1965 to 1968) and later in Sopot, Poland (1977 to 1980), replacing the Sopot ...
Sohonie argues the songs reveal the rhythms and dreams of the region's post-Soviet future. SOHONIE: There's a lot of different styles. And I think, again, it's just a testament that Central Asia ...
The discovery of one old record is breathing new life into a genre of Soviet-era music that hasn't been widely heard overseas for decades.
A Central Asian Soviet-era pop music anthology shines a light on the region's ethnic diversity and music that transcends genres from Korean Brass Bands to Uyghur garage rock to Crimean jazz.
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