Reposted by @deathisnot.bsky.social
this is really quite spectacularly evocative - compiling music from the fading Russian Empire, 1889-1917, prized by first-generation Russian New Yorkers and now assembled for this tape from thrift stores finds in Forest Hills, Brighton Beach and Gravesend
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Various Artists - Let Me Perish Without Return: Lament and Longing from the Fading Russian Empire, 1889-1917
Gary Sullivan, host of WFMU's Bodega Pop, pools his Brooklyn and Queens finds on this crunchy anthology, collecting early 20th century Russian music that was prized by first-generation Russian New Yor...