Review: Zulya and the children of the underground
July 4th 2008 06:31
Link: www.zulya.com/
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Zulya and the children of the underground
Nominations for BBC’s World Music Award don’t get handed out willy-nilly, so it’s quite an achievement that this Melbourne outfit have received one; listening to the brilliant combination of Tartar, Russian and English on the album it’s completely understandable. What a refreshingly uplifting collection of original songs; the translation of lyrics shows poetry in the lyric, yet the feeling is up beat, quintessentially traditional and fresh.
Children’s Bird Song is a beautiful track about a bird who isn’t singing, with a simple message to convey about love and loss, yet is not a miserable song. Red Flower creates an ambience of feeling so good yet it could easily be interpreted as a song of sadness. Zulya Kamalova the singer/songwriter responsible for these wonderful works is one of those extraordinary gems on our local scene.
There are deeply sophisticated qualities to this music that should be embraced by anyone who enjoys something a little different, particularly trumpet, tuba, cello, violin and viola. Russians will fall head over heels if they haven’t already discovered Zulya and her band, but you don’t need to speak the language to appreciate a great song well delivered – anyone who attended Womadelaide will tell you that.
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David Jobling
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