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Conference marvin::uk_music

Title:The UK Music Conference
Notice:Welcome (back) to UK_MUSIC on node MARVIN.
Moderator:RDGENG::CROOK
Created:Mon Mar 28 1988
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1381
Total number of notes:39269

1122.0. "BABA YAGA" by NDLVAX::MTANNER (D'ye ken John plunk) Fri Mar 05 1993 15:40

    OK
    
    I know this is the UK_MUSIC file but I wonder if anyone has heard of a
    band this band?
    
    They are 3 English chaps and 4 Hungarian lads and lassies. The English
    chaps play a sort of electriccy, folky rocky and rolly, (lead guitar,
    keyboards and drums) while the Hungarian girls and boys sing (I assume 
    HUngarian but as I don't speak the lingo, it could be Esperanto for all
    I know but definitely NOT, Chinese), folk songs and play ethnic (man)
    instruments.
    
    The folk singing is cleverly juxtaposed, (do I really know the meaning of
    that word), against the English lyrics and although the melody is
    different, it seems to fill out the whole noise ver nicely.
    
    Now, if you can't imagine this at all, it's probably that I have zero
    skill and trying to write about a type of music and if you never hear
    them, you'll all just have to carry on living in ignorance, won't you?
    ;-)
    
    Anyroad, I think they're good and it's my CD, so there.
    
    Cheers,
    
    Mark.
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1122.1Tell me mre. Please.SHIPS::RIOT01::SUMMERFIELDBorn of FrustrationMon Mar 08 1993 13:195
Mark,

Have you got any more details about their CD. Sounds quite interesting.

Balders
1122.2I knew it...he had to be interestedWOTVAX::FIDDLERMMy time in hell is spent with youMon Mar 08 1993 13:211
1122.3Oh God, not a review! ;-)NDLVAX::MTANNERD'ye ken John plunkMon Mar 15 1993 12:4020
    
    Re 1
    
    Balders,
    
    I'm in sunny Milan at the moment, in windowless office doing a second
    week of testing and getting thoroughly p*ssed off.
    
    I can tell you from memory that the lead guitarists name is Jmes
    Winchester but that is all until I get back home on Friday.
    
    Do you want to know the band line up or do you want me to try and wax
    lyrical (Ha! Ha! What a horrific sense of humour) about the CD?.
    
    I will attempt a review next Monday. (Don't worry, music critics,
    you're jobs are thoroughly safe.) ;-)
    
    Cheers,
    
    Mark.
1122.4SHIPS::RIOT01::SUMMERFIELDBorn of FrustrationTue Mar 16 1993 09:128
Yo Mark,

Line-up, review, anything, everything....

In anticipation

Balders
1122.5Not a review but...NDLVAX::MTANNERD'ye ken John plunkMon Mar 29 1993 10:0349
    
    Ok Balders,
    
    You asked for it!!
    
    Line Up:    James Winchester            Lead Vocals, Lead Guitar
                Tibor Bornai                Keyboards
                Peter Horwarth              Violin
                Leslie Mandoki              Additional Keyboards
                Zsolt Galantai              Drums
                Mihaly Huszar               Bass Guitars
                Pavel Skitikov              Ethnic thingies/ Singing
                Galina Boldireva                        "
                Mihall Jemeljanov                       "
                Tatiana Aleksejevo                      "
                Anna Pavlenko                           "
                Vladimir Abanshin                       "
    
    James Winchester and Tibor Bornai arrange the whole thing and their
    recording studios are in Munich.
    
    Tracks:
    
    Back in the USSR   (No instruments)
    Side to Side       (anti war and a little melancholic)
    Red Bird                          "
    Where will you go? (a rocky little number)
    Time to try        (Well, there's this woman see and she's not playing
                        the game n'all etc)
    So Ends Another Day (One of my faves, slow but good arrangement)
    All Work and No Play (I want to go and get *insert your favourite
                          pasttime here*)
    It's Me              (Funny track this one, almost creepy)
    Days of Old          (Reminiscing and Things)
    Beating My Dreams Away (No-one understands me, man)
    All The Lights        (Ok I give up, I don't know what this one's
                           abaht.)
    
    Quite a few guitar solos on all the tracks but in the folky tradition
    and they sound really good with the singing in the background. (I
    guess I was wrong about personnel numbers in my first note.)
    
    If you want to know more, you'll have to listen. I'm sure something can
    be arranged.
    
    Cheers,
    
    Mark.