On his new album BULAT BLUES Daniel Kahn devotes himself to the "Georges Brassens of the Soviet Union", Bulat Okudzhava, in new, own adaptations in English and a touch of Russian. Daniel Kahn is accompanied by the virtuoso Moscow musician Vanya Zhuk on the Russian 7-string guitar.
The Georgian-Armenian Muscovite Bulat Shalvovich Okudzhava (1924-1997), the spiritual father of all Russian singer-songwriters, is almost unanimously revered in Russia and the post-Soviet diaspora. His songs, which come from his experiences as a soldier, pacifist, poet and novelist of the Second World War, are deeply human. When Okudzhava privately performed them in the 1950s, he almost single-handedly invented the figure of the modern Russian guitar bard.
1. Prayer (Okudzhava/Kahn) 3:29 Prelisten: 2. Three Sisters (Okudzhava/Kahn)3:39 3. Honorable Madam (Shvarts/Okudzhava/Kahn) 2:35 4. Historical Novel (Okudzhava/Kahn) 3:30 5. Georgian Song (Okudzhava/Kahn) 3:36 6. Busking Vagabond (Okudzhava/Kahn) 3:03 Prelisten: 7. Song of My Life (Okudzhava/Kahn) 2:16 Prelisten: 8. Paper Soldier (Okudzhava/Kahn) 1:38 9. Sentimental March (Okudzhava/Kahn) 2:05 10. To Friends (Okudzhava/Kahn) 2:10 11. Two Lives (Okudzhava/Kahn) 3:52 12. Ragged Coat (Bolotovoy/Okudzhava/Kahn) 1:58 Prelisten: 13. Midnight Trolley(Okudzhava/Kahn) 3:24
Total time: 37:24
Daniel Kahn: voice, 6-string guitars, accordion, harmonica Vanya Zhuk: 7-string Russian Roma guitar, electric bass guitar
Recorded April-May 2018 at Sternstaub Studios, Berlin Produced, engineered, edited, and mixed by Thomas Stern Mastered by Doug Henderson, micro-moose-berlin
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