Va-Ta-Ga - Reel - Strannie ludi LP (2015)

«REEL» is now «Va-Ta-Ga» - a group of Petrozavodsk, representing a lively and vibrant music. Art-rock, avant-garde and world music, are carefully balanced. The leader of the group - Alexander Leonov plays a hand-made folk, string and wind instruments and singing Russian and Karelian songs, reconstruction of the early tradition of buffoons. Two songs - male and female - are intertwined in a single product, thus creating a completely new concept of Russian songs. The combination of different age-old Russian instruments such as the horn, harp, zhaleyka, horn, kalyuka, and the Karelian jouhikko and Sarvam (wooden Horn wrapped in birch bark) with the traditional instruments of other ethnic groups may result in the listener, a lot of deep thoughts about art, and more general meditation on the cliché-ridden way of thinking.
credits
released September 11, 2004

Olga Gajdamak - vocals, violin Alexander Leonov - vocals, ethnic wind jouhikko Arkady Sokolov - percussion, background vocals Sergei Sheljapin - kontrobas Alex Derevlev - guitar, background vocals Olga Gaydamak - vocals, violin Alexander Leonov - vocals, ethnic wind instruments, jouhikko Arkady Sokolov - percussion instruments, backing vocals Sergei Shelyapin - kontrobas Alex Derevlev - Guitar backing vocals