Russian folk music - Songs to soothe the Russian censors

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Post Russian folk music.

 

[Judge Holden]

The most traditional and beloved of russian peasant melodies

 

[Pitere pit]

Dark eyed girl, a man that forgets the name of his crush. Kharitonov sings and acts cockily and I love it.

Horse, from Lyuve. It gets me every time when I'm listening it. No matter where I am, I am suddenly riding on a horse through the Russian's steppe.

 

[Spasticus Autisticus]

 

[It's HK-47]

Песня о Тачанке (Song of the Tachanka) was a song about the Russian Civil War, or more specifically, the machine-gun carts that the Red Army used to blast everyone to shit. It's obnoxiously catchy and I've never been able to get it out of my head.

 

[Postal Dude]

Horse, from Lyuve. It gets me every time when I'm listening it. No matter where I am, I am suddenly riding on a horse through the Russian's steppe.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=GlrFEL0ZTMM

Lyube is great. That's far from their only song with a "pure folk" sound to it, too.

Their more rock-oriented songs are great too, but this isn't the thread for that.

 

[soft kitty]

Dunno about folk music, but I'm a huge fan of this Russian war athem: Katusha (Катюша)

This is the original version

The Remix

And my personal favorite, a rendition of the song sang by Japanese voice actors

 

[millais]

It's not really folk-music, but I like Borodin's "In the Steppes of Central Asia". I think it's part of that tradition of Debussy-esque symphonic poems, where the song is supposed to paint a picture of a landscape or a scene. In this case, the landscape is the titular Steppes of Central Asia, and the scene is a Central Asian trading caravan accompanied by Russian Cossack guards as they cross the vast and lonely steppe. You can hear there is a separate "Russian" leitmotif or theme, and a separate "Asian" motif or theme, and the music bounces from one to the other, representing the meeting of the two different cultures on the frontier of the empire.

 

[SuzukiToyota]

 

[Peppino]

 

[Ira the Weatherman]

This one is my personal favourite. Very soothing song.

Spoiler: Lyrics

Deep, deep
Under the Earth [lies] the ore
Deep, deep
In the well [is] the water
Deeper than that
[Is] my grief,
Deeper than that
[Are] my sorrows

Wide, wide
Flows the river
Wide wide
Lie fields
Wider than that
[Is] the light of bliss
Wider than that
[Is] my happiness

Far, far
Has run away my horse
Far, far
Has ridden my horse
Far, far
Cannot outrun him
Far, far
Cannot catch him
Farther than that
[Is] my sadness
Farther than that
[Is] my longing

High, high
Has flown the falcon
High, high
Has flown the falcon
High, high
Has risen the falcon
High beyond the clouds
Has flown the falcon
Higher than that
[Is] my joy
Higher than that
[Is] my love

Not really a traditional folk song but something that tries to be and is quite nice.

 

[Ahriman]

Mary Hopkin's cover