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Post by jk on Apr 13, 2020 21:27:54 GMT
During the sequence in this 2018 documentary by Werner Herzog and André Singer when Mikhail Gorbachev is mourning the death of his wife Raisa, a stunning unnamed lament can be heard playing. It seems I'm not the only one looking for it! A certain Jake Charles Rees tweeted about it (presumably in vain) last November, which is great because this splendid fellow provides a clip! You might need to turn on the volume in the video to hear it: Is this music familiar to anyone? If not, is it possible to pick out some of the lyrics? I'd be eternally grateful for some help with this.
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Post by jk on Apr 14, 2020 22:28:53 GMT
aeijtzsche has saved the day (again). I'm sure she won't mind me quoting her: "Sounds like the vocal is from a field recording of a folk song that the movie composer then overlaid with that dreamy pad stuff." Next time I'll ask her first. Thank you, JH. Maybe the entire film excerpt featuring it will find its way onto YouTube some day. It's definitely worth hearing in full.
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Post by Kapitan on Apr 14, 2020 23:01:36 GMT
My apologies, jk, while I would be of no help to you whatsoever in your quest (having never seen the film, heard the music, nor had any ability whatsoever to translate what I assume would be Russian), I did mean to listen and at least reply that I would be useless.
I've now done the latter--truly, truly useless, I was!--and the former. And regarding the former, I'd say JH's guess seems spot-on. I can't say I'm as taken by the music as you seem to be, particularly not liking the synth much. But the voice is at least intriguing. Interesting movie, I'd guess, too.
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Post by jk on Apr 15, 2020 9:40:00 GMT
My apologies, jk, while I would be of no help to you whatsoever in your quest (having never seen the film, heard the music, nor had any ability whatsoever to translate what I assume would be Russian), I did mean to listen and at least reply that I would be useless.
I've now done the latter--truly, truly useless, I was!--and the former. And regarding the former, I'd say JH's guess seems spot-on. I can't say I'm as taken by the music as you seem to be, particularly not liking the synth much. But the voice is at least intriguing. Interesting movie, I'd guess, too.
Haha. No need to apologize, Cap'n. And do stop putting yourself down! If I'd been more on the ball (if only!) I would have come to the same conclusion as JH, who has her head screwed on a lot more firmly than JK. I'm taken by that strange downward smear at the end of each stanza (you only get to hear it once here) and the combination of the plaintive voice and Nicholas Singer's blissed-out chords. I think you'd have to hear the whole thing as used in the film to judge it objectively--it lasted at least a couple of minutes. Thanks for chiming in!
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Post by jk on Apr 15, 2020 19:59:19 GMT
And now that wonderful person BBF/RR (who probably needs no introduction) has passed on the identity of the song in the vocal line! It's also clear now, after listening to this crossover version, that the "folk song" and the "dreamy pad stuff" in the movie clip are utterly distinct. I think Charles Ives would have approved. "Перепёлка" is Russian for quail, the bird. (The lyrics are there on YouTube but you'll need to get them translated.) The band is called Ivan Kupala: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Kupala_(band)
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