#belorussian song

[captain-price-unofficially]

Performers of the Song and Dance Ensemble of the 2nd Belorussian front at the Reichstag. 1945.

[haveyouheardthisfolksong]

Note: This is considered to be both a Polish and Ukrainian song. There are versions in Polish, Ukrainian, Belorussian, Finnish, and Slovak. The recording above is in Ukrainian, but if you’ve heard a different version of this song, you can vote “yes.”

[jerichoes]

following in the footsteps of @danking-on-my-own, yet another slav playlist. it's primarily in russian. idk how much anyone wants to listen to a bunch of russian songs, but hey, maybe somebody will find something they like. it also has some ukrainian and belorussian songs in there. genres and decades are also all over the place because it's just a hodgepodge of songs i've liked over the years.

and also some songs are partially in english but uuuh it's about the vibes, y'know?

[spiritcc]

🎃SPOOKY MONTH🎃

🎃 🎃 🎃 🎃 🎃 🎃 🎃 🎃 🎃 🎃 🎃 🎃 🎃 🎃 🎃 🎃 🎃 🎃 🎃 🎃

Soviet Spooky Club(🎃) is going to make you shit and cry and call for mommy this October because we are watching nothing but SCEWWY MOVIES!! Oh lord how can I save myself, you’re desperately searching for answers, well they are right in front of you! None of what we’re watching is actually scary roflmao do you think horror even existed as a genre in the USSR get real. 

All of October to kill, 9 days in total, and a schedule as follows:

Saturday 1st - Viy, literally the only confirmed Soviet horror that is nowadays just cute. An adaptation of Gogol’s story about the og Five Nights At Churches.

Friday 7th - Alice in Wonderland + Alice Through the Looking Glass, cartoons. Very lovely, and with such nice songs, full of the trademark weirdness, nostalgia for childhood and love for weird kids! Also we want to traumatise your children.

Saturday 8th - Zero City, Perestroika-era (a lot on the list are) from Shakhnazarov, an absurdist dark comedy about It All, really.

Friday 14th - three cartoons at once since they’re short: Polygon (Firing Range) - about revenge, tanks, and Fear; The Pass - trying to rescue ourselves from a horrid planet after being stuck there for over a decade and remembering about the past you never got to witness; Terrible Vengeance - another Gogol adaptation, do read the short story for full enrichment and Spookies, about a total fucking devil scumbag.  

Saturday 15th - One Deadly Owner, a guest from the foreign lands in the Club(🎃)! Aka Jeremy Brett’s unbuttoned tits and the haunted car, @tremendousdetectivetheorist and @53rdcenturyhero as promised.

Friday 21st - And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie’s adaptation that, according to many, is among the, if not the most, faithful one. 10 people stuck on an island, hopefully they don’t have any dark secrets granting them death hahaha

Saturday 22nd - Master Designer, getting haunted by kinda your own creation 💅

Friday 28th - The Wild Hunt of King Stakh, a creepy vibes Belorussian suffering in a weird castle filled with weird people.

Saturday 29th - the Russian dub, with edited English sub, of A Nightmare Before Christmas presented to us by prof, the cherry on the top of the Spooky!

All films take place on hyperbeam at 10pm Moscow time, if you’re new to the gig, about 15mins before that 10pm we load up the room and reblog this post with the link to join. Come with us to get 🎃 spooked 🎃

[unhonestlymirror]

If the biggest diaspora in Lithuania is Ukrainian, then in Latvia, the biggest diaspora is Belaruthian (after russian, but I don't count it because they murdered about 60% of population of Latvia if not more).

Belaruthian most prominent national trait is adaptation. These guys have been genocided for so long that learning languages quickly is in their blood now. Belaruthians are, in fact, very proud of this ability. Thus, in Latvia, they usually speak perfect Latvian and mock anyone who makes any mistake in this language. Therefore, it's quite hard to spot Belaruthians, even for their neighbours. Belaruthians are partizans, forest ninjas, they are invisible but they are everywhere, and only a very experienced person can identify them. Unfortunately, it also makes an illusion of the prevalence of "Belorussians" - who are impudent and often behave disgusting.

Once, when I was a kid, my parents threw me off to my aunt in Latvia for holidays. Like a good aunt she was, instead of letting me spend all my holidays kicking around, she enrolled me in Latvian language courses. I was in primary school, studying Ukrainian, and I didn't really get it why would I need Latvian in my life... I lived in the confidence that I would live my whole life in Ukraine and die in Ukraine - haha, naive me. But my aunt was adamant, and I didn't really mind. Baltic languages seemed pretty interesting. My knowledge is still not higher than A1.1 level, though, but I hope Lithuanian knowledge will fix that.

My aunt also often shed a tear when listening to Vālodzīte. I didn't understand why. Now I get it. Now I get it. Vālodzīte is a beautiful song.

My little oriole will fly,

Screaming across the hills

She will call me home

Me wandering around the world

[arabela25]

Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2018 countdown: 6 days left!

Time - Daniel Yastremski, Belarus        

[rationedwell]

in honor of me being stuck on duke’s second language today, have a small list of great russian music:

нравится мне - миша марвин.

опиум - 303 каратиста.

кто как играет - гуф.

изюм - мот.

пьяный дождь - макс корж.

не сдерживай меня - елена темникова.

одно и то же - максим фадеев.

семья сказала - егор креед.

мастер и маргар��та - баста.

на мне - влад соколовский & MCB77.

мама - анна шульгина.

по платьицу - саша санта.

наш район - жак-энтони.

тает лёд - грибы.

аябо - мозги.

тайулетаю - монатик.

[thestudiofade]

TikTok, Joy Division, and The Soviet Union

Naturally, you’d assume there can’t be a single entity uniting all of the disparate things listed above. However on this occasion you’d be wrong. Molchat Doma or ‘Молчат Дома’ are younger than their recordings would have you believe. Not being proficient in their native Belorussian it’s hard for me to tell you exactly how old they are, but from watching videos online I can surmise they are older than Ian Curtis was at the time of his untimely passing, but not so old to have shared terra firma with him. Their music is a microcosm of the country that shaped it. A landlocked country bordered by giants, the looming shadows of Poland, Ukraine, and Russia have been a constant presence, and so to does their music feel compressed, as though it were being transmitted over the waves of a rebel radio station and out through worn retrograde speakers. That metaphor may sound be a tired stereotype of soviet nations from a western perspective, but they themselves seem to take pride on being outsiders in the inside. Reminding journalists and fans at every possible moment, they are popular in most of Europe, just not Belarus... It’s as if they feel they are being silenced, or rather their messages of searing reality fall on the deaf ears of a slowly progressing nation still shedding the skin of it’s past.

So how did they become a TikTok hit? One would assume it wasn’t at the hand of a progressive marketing exec. (but I suppose that can never be ruled out) My best guess would be an element that pervades modern youth, Nostalgia. The song in question their TikTok viral tune ‘Судно (Борис Рыжий)’ comes at this from two angles:

Firstly, there is nostalgia as we witness it most frequently, in the sense of glorification. The parenthetical eponym of this song is Russian poet Boris Ryzhy, who ultimately if not coincidently met a similar fate to Ian Curtis, (also in his 20s) and who wrote many a lauded poem in his all too brief time. But one that jumped out to me for obvious reasons was relatively short prose entitled ‘The Eighties’; with references to the “Mustachioed”, to “Levi’s”, and to “Discos”, it’s not clear how he felt about the above, only that he had reverence for their iconography.

The second side to ‘nostalgia’ explored in this song is one that represents the true through-line of Boris Ryzhy’s work… Tragedy. He grew up around great pain, great hardship, and as he grew in success and as time moved on, that pain never left him. He said “the mere fact of being a poet, of being born a poet, is a tragedy in itself”. 

Despite being independent for the 30 years now, incumbent prime minister ‘Alexander Lukashenko’ has served for 26 of those years, contributing to Belarus’ claim to being ‘The Last Dictatorship in Europe’. A country that on first examination appears to be a museum to Soviet culture, with it’s Stalinist architecture and streets widened to accommodate militia vehicles, Molchat Doma and Boris Ryzhy are nostalgic for something else, for change. Just as Ryzhy recognised the only change in his hometown post the collapse of the USSR was how the graffiti changed from Russian to English, Molchat Doma recognise that fast wifi and freedom of internet does not represent true change. Molchat Doma translates to English as “Houses are Silent” a remark on the drab copy and paste concrete exteriors of housing in Minsk, a city with a population density 3.7x that of London, the lyrics below exemplifying this point.

“Enameled bedpan Window, bedside table and the bed Not cozy at all - hard to live But cozy to die” Ultimately as this subtext passed me by until much further much more thorough inspection, I assume it also passes by many of those who use it on TikTok. Subtext can be heard however, the songwriting and production are purposeful, and as these aspects meet they create something ‘Vibey’ as you’d say in modern nomenclature. When I hear this song, I’m in a movie, I’m in the eighties, I’m in the Eastern Bloc, I’m soaked in the subversive. It’s a highly effective piece of music. Which were it not for TikTok, I would never have heard, so there’s that. Ps. I really really wanted to go in detail about the history of the Synth, and the USSR’s claim to it’s providence, but I suppose there will have to be a part 2 x

[anotherescsite]

Favourite things: Belarus

Story of my life - Naviband

The Belorussian entrants are okay. They never trouble the scoreboard and some of them have been calamitous, but they always have some sort of entertainment gimmick there to make you smile. Best result has been in 2007 which achieved a sixth place. The other finalists haven’t come close to this placing with sixteenth the next best placing.

I think that everyone had high hopes for Story of my life before the final week in Kiev. It was never going to win against the Portuguese juggernaut, but it was expected to do well.  It is a wonderful melody and there is a feeling of contentment to the song, the lyrics and the performance. But it felt rushed somehow and didn’t feel like it followed it’s natural cause. Watch the film clip as well to see what i mean.

[nopanamaman]

ферри!!! у меня вопрос!!! и даже несколько!!!! во первых, какие ты знаешь языки и на каком уровне, изучаешь или хочешь изучать какие-то языки? во вторых, планируешь ли ты остаться на постсоветском пространстве или предпочтешь переехать? и если переезжать, то куда? в третьих, планируешь ли ты заниматься другими видами творчества кроме вокапесен, комиксы там, игры и т.д в четвёртых, прости, если вопросы слишком личные или их слишком много! просто я люблю задавать вопросы

ничего-ничего я люблю отвечать на аски!

1. русский и белорусский - мои родные языки! из иностранных я довольно хорошо знаю английский и очень базовый шведский. а еще я сейчас учу польский! 

2. это на самом деле непростой вопрос. я люблю беларусь и люблю свой город, но с экономической точки зрения было бы нелогично оставаться здесь после окончания университета. было бы здорово пожить какое-то время в петербурге и/или в норвегии (у нас там семейный друг)! хотя по возможности, конечно, хотелось бы потом вернуться сюда!

3. оо было бы круто! всегда хотелось делать комиксы, но никогда не хватало на них терпения (было кстати несколько попыток начать pafl как комикс, но дальше одной-двух страниц дело никогда не заходило). для меня на данный момент песни - очень хороший вариант, так как работая с ними быстро видишь результат своих трудов и в короткие промежутки времени можно впихнуть довольно много информации! но все же хотелось бы потом попробовать сделать это чем-то вроде комикса, потому что как раз за счет такого сжатого формата теряется очень много ньюансов

но в первую очередь я надеюсь, что у меня хватит сил закончить хотя бы эту серию песен хахах 

TL: ferry!!! i have a question!!! a few, actually!!!! fist of all, what languages do you speak and how good are you at them? are you learning any at the moment? secondly, do you plan on staying in the post-soviet space or moving somewhere else? thirdly, are you planning on doing some other creative stuff aside from vocasongs like comics, games etc. and lastly, sorry if the asks are too personal or if there’s too many of them! i just like asking questions

A: it’s okay it’s okay i like answering asks!

1. russian and belorussian are my native languages! as far as foreign ones are concerned, my english is pretty good and i know very basic swedish. and right now i’m also learning polish!

2. this is actually a rather hard question. i love belarus and i love my city, but it would be illogical from an economical standpoint to stay here after graduating. it’d be really cool to go and live in st petersburg and/or in norway (we have a family friend there) for a while! though, in the end i’d still like to return here!

3. ooh that’d be awesome! i’ve always wanted to draw comics, but never had the patience for it (there have actually been some attempts at making a PAFL comic but i never got past the first couple of pages). as of now songs are a great option for me since when making them the results of your work become apparent fairly quickly and you can stuff a lot of information into very short periods of time! however i’d still like to try and make it a comic or something in the future, since because of that very condensed format a lot of nuance is often lost

more importantly though i hope i’ll at least have enough strength to finish this song series hahah

[unibrowzz]

all of Norway’s winning songs had some other country involved too

How is this the first time I've noticed this?? (For anyone who isn't aware:1985: The one in the pantsuit, Elisabeth, is half Swedish.1995: The violin player is Irish2009: Rybak is half Belorussian, and was born in Minsk)

[usstatesofsong]

ESC 2019 Reviews: Belarus

Semifinal 1, First Half Belarus: ZENA - “Like It”

Welcome to 2019! It’s finally time to begin reviewing Eurovision songs. We’re gonna give 2019 a spotlight with which I’ll ridicule, criticize, praise, and love for your personal entertainment. Europe is going to Tel Aviv in less than two months, and… yeah, it may be a mess. But we need to remain optimistic!

At the time of writing this post, we still don’t know the running order of songs. However, we do know which songs will be in the first half of the first semifinal, so we are starting there. And even if we didn’t know the running order, I’d still probably start with this song, since it’s not been high on most people’s lists: Belarus.

In what’s becoming a trend for me, I like to sneak into those Youtube-friendly Belorussian audition videos and see what’s rolled up their sleeves. Mostly I just wanted to see how much Daz Sampson would suck. Somewhere in the midst of those auditions was Zinaida Kupriyanovich, a.k.a. ZENA, and her song “Like It” was a decent modern pop song. I didn’t think much more about it, because while it was good, it wasn’t “great.”

Then I come to find out it won (ahem, “won”) the national selection. Oops.

I didn’t know until I had to prepare this review that she co-hosted Junior Eurovision 2018. Because of this, many Belorussian viewers believe the selection was corrupt and that she won due to her money. Sound familiar? That’s because people claimed the same of Alekseev last year. Most videos of her live performance are pretty evenly matched with the like/dislike ratios, so she doesn’t have the home-ground support - a hot issue this year in quite a few countries.

That being said, it sounds to me like very dated pop; like something from five to ten years ago. The 2000’s guitar leads into some random lyrical content about phones, comfort zones, dum da-da-dum… Meh. And by the time you get to the third chorus, you start wondering how many times she’s actually song “Is he gonna like it?”. The lyrical content of this song is pretty poor. Nothing deep or memorable - which may be its biggest weakness of all, because I do think Zena has a strong voice.

This is clearly meant to be nothing more than a Euro-pop dance song, because the only fun I have is watching her move on stage, even when it’s not extremely natural. I didn’t watch Eurovision in the early 2010’s, when Belarus’ track record was… special. This probably still beats those songs, but I don’t like this more than NAVIBand or Ivan.

So I guess what I’m saying is … No, Zena, I’m not gonna like it. At least not more than most songs this year. With Semifinal 1 being so strong this year, Belarus will have to wish for some help from their neighborly friends.

My Rating: 5.5/10 Ranking: 28th of 41

[sweetswesf]

Composition Location: my bed

What I Learned Today:

classes

What I Used: 

What Inspired Me: recanting stories of my old old job (I happy at how far I have come)

Song of the Day: Zemfira - Snow; my Belorussian friend was playing some 90s Russian Pop in her car.  I am pretty sure it was not this song.  I just searched, “90s Russian Pop” music, and this song popped up.  What are they saying?  Don’t ask me!  I don’t speak Russian!  Yes, I know Russian and Belorussian are not the same thing.  Don’t play me...

Something That Scared Me That I Tried: going to a network event despite wanting more sleep

Code I Ran:

self.base_salary = base_salary

What Code I Ran Does:

binds an instance variable to its value base_salary

Lunch: can’t remember :/

Feeling: heard

[russianfolklore]

Belorussian folk song ‘Souniejko’.

Perfomance by Hvarna.

[upyrica]

DAGADANA - Plywe kacza po Tysyni (Пливе́ ка́ча по Тиси́ні)

"Plywe kacza po Tysyni"/ "Пливе́ ка́ча по Тиси́ні"/ is a Lemko conscript song (according to some sources it comes from Zakarpattia). It has literary origins. According to the researcher Wasyl Sokol the original text was written by the Zakarpattian author and translator  Wasyl Grendżoloju-Donski. The text employs an archaic trope: death, or passing into the spirit world, is juxtaposed with a duckling swimming across the river. This image had appeared earlier, eg., in Celtic and Ugro-Finnish epic poems (including the Finnish Kalevala by Elias Lönnrot). The song took on a new life and meaning during the Euromaidan protests in 2014. It first resounded at the funeral of the Belorussian Michail Żyznieuski. The favourite song of one of the first victims of the Ukrainian Spring, it was chosen for this occasion by friends and – to the surprise of many – it quickly achieved great popularity. Its new significance inspired a phenomenon as crowds sang it to commemorate all those who were killed in the Revolution. Later it became its unofficial hymn – performed as a tribute to the Euromaidan activists (the “Heavenly Hundred”) and the other heroes who gave and are still giving their lives in the war in East Ukraine. We brought this piece into the studio in April 2014 and wanted to express the pain and despair which filled our hearts at that time.

A duckling swims along the Tysa, A duckling swims along the Tysa. Dear mother, please don’t scold me, Dear mother, please don’t scold me. Now is not the time for scolding, Now is not the time for scolding. I don’t know where I’ll perish, I don’t know where I’ll perish. O, I will die in a foreign land, O, I will die in a foreign land. Who will dig my grave? Who will dig my grave?

Strangers will dig it for me, O strangers will dig it for me, Won’t you, mother, regret it? Won’t you, mother, regret it?

How can I not regret it, son? How can I not regret it, son? I carried you upon my heart, I carried you upon my heart, A duckling swims along the Tysa, A duckling swims along the Tysa.