Vladimir Martynov (1946) - Children of the Other (2009)

 

Year of manufacture: 2009

Label: BMI, EMI, Virgin Music

Country of origin: Russia

Genre: Ethnic Mythology Suite

Duration: 01:23:13

Language: Russian, Tuvan

Translation: Not required

Subtitles: English (hard-wired, intro)

Director/Choreographer: Vladimir Oboronko, Alexander Cheparukhin

Tracklist:

01. We are the children of the otter

02. Lips (Bo-be-o-bee)

03. Foreign land (Oske Cherde)

04. Ritual #1

05. Ritual #2

06. Yellow Trotter (Chiraa-Xoor)

07. Oh, Dostoevsky's running cloud...

08. Big Alarm of the Mind

09. Song of the Migrant (Kongurei)

10. When horses die, they breathe...

Description: An unusual musical work by the famous Russian composer Vladimir Martynov “Children of the Otter” was created on the basis of two “super stories” by V. Khlebnikov: “Children of the Otter” and “Zangezi”. “Super-story” is Khlebnikov’s term introduced by him to designate a new textual reality, consisting in a combination of texts that seem to be incompatible with each other. This “combination of the incongruous” forms the basis of the musical compositional structure of “Otter Children.” A combination of archaic pre-musical Tuvan throat singing with modern composer techniques for working with material. As author Vladimir Martynov explains, the otter is a relative of man. The ancestors of the Tuvans believed that it was to her that people owe their dominant position in nature. The creator of the suite, Vladimir Martynov, asks not to be called the composer. According to him, the time of professional writers is long gone. “I’m always trying to enter the composer’s area, that is, this is the area of ​​ethnos, folklore, rock, jazz, where the figure of the composer is leveled,” says Vladimir Martynov. The Tuvan folk group “Huun-Khuur-Tu” truly fascinates with the magic of sounds - its musicians have the rare ability to produce throat sounds of different ranges. There is nothing unusual about the shift in cultural focus and musical tastes from Europe to Asia, music critics say. Academicism has long outdone itself and will simply suffocate without new inspiring forms. It is projects like “Otter Children” that help break the usual boundaries and make a new round in development... DVD release - 2011.

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