Merrie Melodias #2 - Free the Jazz

with Eugenie Galochkin
Monday 3rd June 2024 04:00 - 05:00 BST

Uzbekistan-based DJ and boss of the experimental ТОПОТ label Eugenie Galochkin presents rare vinyl rips from the Soviet Melodia label. Melodia has released music from all around the world: from obscure Baltic electronica and free jazz from Siberia; to synth-pop from Tajikistan and academic avant-garde from Ukraine. The series will explore how national and cultural characteristics are embedded in musical language.

We continue to listen to rare records released on the Soviet major label Melodia. This time – and not for the last time – the episode is dedicated to jazz in all its manifestations.

We'll start with the first jazz composition in the history of the USSR (the Uzbek band under Pavel Chaplevsky made this recording in 1935), listen to balearic improvisations from Ukraine, electro-boogie from Kazakhstan, jazz-mughams from Azerbaijan and then dive headfirst into free jazz from the Baltic States and faraway places in Russia. Let jazz be free!

Tracklist

Узбекский джаз под управлением Павла Чаплевского — Аскари (Uzbekistan, 1935)
Инструментальный Ансамбль под управлением Владимира Сермакашева — Белый Танец (Azerbaijan, 1972)
Вагиф Мустафа Заде — Родные Интонации (Azerbaijan, 1990) \ Сергей Курёхин — Введение в историю (Russia, 1989)
Сергей Курёхин и Сергей Летов — Введение в культуру (Russia, 1989)
Джаз-Студiо Група Петра Пашкова — Ходiння за три моря (Ukraine, 1991)
Ансамбль Медео — Карнавал (Kazakhstan, 1985)
Арсенал — Пульс Улицы (Russia, 1987)
Ансамбль Крыша — Clavier (Russia, 1990)
Джаз-группа Архангельск — Первая серия (Russia, 1990)
Трио Михаила Агре — Импровизация I (Russia, 1989)
Вячеслав Гайворонский и Владимир Волков — Три русские песни (Russia, 1990)
Валентина Пономарёва — Полнолуние (Russia, 1989)
Egil Straume Jazz Combo — Intraversija (Latvia, 1978)
Jazz Quartet Led By Petras Vyšniauskas — Piece On The Theme Of The Lithuanian Folk-song «Oh Dear Sun, Dear Mummy» (Lithuania, 1984)
Сергей Курёхин — Введение в историю (Russia, 1989)

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