"Music is the universal language,"
so the cliché goes. In Mountain Tale, East and West, folk
and classical, come together to speak in tongues quite unlike any heard
before.
You probably have
heard the celebrated Bulgarian Voices (also known as Angelite): a glittering
ladies choir that interprets their country's diverse Eastern and Western
folk legacy with astonishingly bright and complex harmonies and rhythms.
And you've probably heard the equally unforgettable Tuvan throat-singers
(also known as Huun-Huur-Tu) of Mongolia, as masculine and guttural as
the Voices are luminously feminine.
Who would have thought this
yin-yang of celestial songbirds and enchanted frogs could blend so well?
Mikhail Alperin, visionary leader of the classical/folk/jazz Moscow Art
Trio, that's who.
The innovative Moscow Art
Trio is the glue that holds together the record's fabulous 28-piece multicultural
ensemble of singers and musicians (funky ethnic instruments, grand piano,
flugelhorn. . .). Alperin has written or arranged all but one of the ten
mostly traditional songs with "new music" sophistication, yet penetrating
directness and purity. It's impossible to underestimate the contribution
of the Trio's Sergey Starostin. On almost every track his bluesy, tenor
wail—lyrics in Russian—bridges Bulgarian Heaven and Tuvan Earth
with Slavic soul. You just have to hear this enchanted goulash to believe
it.
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