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 Yorkers.
Time's frozen on 'Let Me Perish Without Return', a set of noisy ballads, music hall standards and folky reflections that map out the experience of the diaspora who immigrated from the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union as the home they knew transformed beyond recognition. Sullivan combed thrift stores in Forest Hills, Brighton Beach and Gravesend to find these intriguing cues, and pieces together a story that's shared by half a million New Yorkers. The remnants of Russian life are still visible on the surface of these neighborhoods, and the music helps us understand the culture a little more deeply. It's not particularly familiar material, but it makes for fascinating listening - especially if you've rinsed the rest of the Death is Not the End catalog.
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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 Yorkers.
Time's frozen on 'Let Me Perish Without Return', a set of noisy ballads, music hall standards and folky reflections that map out the experience of the diaspora who immigrated from the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union as the home they knew transformed beyond recognition. Sullivan combed thrift stores in Forest Hills, Brighton Beach and Gravesend to find these intriguing cues, and pieces together a story that's shared by half a million New Yorkers. The remnants of Russian life are still visible on the surface of these neighborhoods, and the music helps us understand the culture a little more deeply. It's not particularly familiar material, but it makes for fascinating listening - especially if you've rinsed the rest of the Death is Not the End catalog.
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 Yorkers.
Time's frozen on 'Let Me Perish Without Return', a set of noisy ballads, music hall standards and folky reflections that map out the experience of the diaspora who immigrated from the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union as the home they knew transformed beyond recognition. Sullivan combed thrift stores in Forest Hills, Brighton Beach and Gravesend to find these intriguing cues, and pieces together a story that's shared by half a million New Yorkers. The remnants of Russian life are still visible on the surface of these neighborhoods, and the music helps us understand the culture a little more deeply. It's not particularly familiar material, but it makes for fascinating listening - especially if you've rinsed the rest of the Death is Not the End catalog.
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 Yorkers.
Time's frozen on 'Let Me Perish Without Return', a set of noisy ballads, music hall standards and folky reflections that map out the experience of the diaspora who immigrated from the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union as the home they knew transformed beyond recognition. Sullivan combed thrift stores in Forest Hills, Brighton Beach and Gravesend to find these intriguing cues, and pieces together a story that's shared by half a million New Yorkers. The remnants of Russian life are still visible on the surface of these neighborhoods, and the music helps us understand the culture a little more deeply. It's not particularly familiar material, but it makes for fascinating listening - especially if you've rinsed the rest of the Death is Not the End catalog.
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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 Yorkers.
Time's frozen on 'Let Me Perish Without Return', a set of noisy ballads, music hall standards and folky reflections that map out the experience of the diaspora who immigrated from the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union as the home they knew transformed beyond recognition. Sullivan combed thrift stores in Forest Hills, Brighton Beach and Gravesend to find these intriguing cues, and pieces together a story that's shared by half a million New Yorkers. The remnants of Russian life are still visible on the surface of these neighborhoods, and the music helps us understand the culture a little more deeply. It's not particularly familiar material, but it makes for fascinating listening - especially if you've rinsed the rest of the Death is Not the End catalog.