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VA - Posle_Rossii - After_Russia - 2023


A hundred years ago, in the fall of 1922 and winter of 1923, the Bolsheviks expelled hundreds of artists and intellectuals from Russia, forcing them to leave the country on what became known as the “philosophers’ ships.” Many of the exiled writers and poets continued to write in Russian, destined never to meet their readers back in their home country. A century later, Russia’s artists are once again leaving, this time because of the war in Ukraine and political persecution at home. To capture the echoes of Russia’s tragic history in the present, director and music producer Roma Liberov invited newly-exiled popular musicians to revisit the poetry of the “obscure generation” of Russian poets who wrote in exile, after leaving Russia 100 years ago. By setting their words to music, artists — including Noize MC, Monetochka, Nogu Svelo!, Pornofilmy, Naive, and others — probed their own experience of exile and how it “rhymes” with the lives of émigré poets the revolution scattered across the world. The resulting album, “After Russia,” got its name from a collection of poems published by Marina Tsvetaeva in 1928. The album premiered on Meduza on January 13. We are publishing a selection of tracks, together with some reflections on the project by the artists themselves.

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000-va-posle_rossii_-_after_russia-ru-repack-web-flac-2023.sfv
001-nogu_svelo-ledyanoy_pokhod_-_the_ice_march.flac
002-korolev_popova-puli_-_shot.flac
003-naiv-pulemot_-_machine_gun.flac
004-misha_dymov_i_mila_varavina-ukhodyashchiy_bereg_-_fading_shore.flac
005-naum_blik-vo_sne_-_asleep.flac
006-miriam_sekhon_i_vasiliy_zorkiy-tishina_-_silence.flac
007-shym-chelovek_nachinayetsya_s_gorya_-_man_starts_with_sorrow.flac
008-monetochka-rasstrel_-_the_shooting.flac
009-pornofilmy-ya_ne_umru_-_i_will_not_die.flac
010-rsac-izdaleka_-_afar.flac
011-khmyrov-bednyak_-_beggar.flac
012-aloevera-eto_tak_vazhno_seychas_-_its_all_so_important_now.flac
013-sansara-pesnya_-_a_song.flac
014-noize_mc-parnas_-_parnassus.flac
015-tequilajazzz-flagi_-_flags.flac
016-r.a.svet-vernutsya_v_rossiyu_-_stikhami_-_return_to_russia_-_but_in_verse.flac


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