This extremely hard-working Moscow-based group started in 1997 and has so far released six albums, of which 2004's 'Three Fields' CD (Sketis Music) gained widespread attention and critical acclaim in many countries outside Russia.
Besides this, the group often tours Russia and abroad and participates in many different international festivals each year, whilst one of the core members, Alexei Borisov, remains a prolific solo force in contemporary electronic sound-art. Together, Volga successfully weaves a wide range of influences.
Driven by the highly impressive, strong and often haunting voice of Angela Manukjan, Volga's sound carefully picks away at electronicsmore interesting contours; electro-acoustic elements; mantras dance rhythms and a variety of traditional, Shamanistic or folk styles from both their native country and far, far beyond. Most of Angela's lyrics are derived from 12th-19th centuries A.D. Russian folklore/text as well, lending the native vocals an even more unique slant.
The group's seventh (yet fifth studio) album, 'Pomol', appears on LTCo in mid-February 2007 and represents their most powerful, inventive and fully-realised work yet. Accessible and buoyant on one hand, dark and sonically confrontational on the other, it possesses a command only too rarely found in what can be loosely deemed pop music.
www.volgamusic.ru
www.ruigoord.nl
www.cultureelcentrum.nl
In the support of English relies of the album "Pomol", several concerts in Germany and The Netherlands:
08.02. Leipzig, Nato
09.02. Dresden, Pushkin
10.02. Nurnberg, Desi
11.02. Munchen, Rote Sonne
14.02. Oberhausen, Druckluft
15.02. Hannover, Lampe
16.02. Giessen, Domizil
17.02. Berlin, Ausland
18.02. Amsterdam, Ruigoord
19.02. Hamburg, tba
Volga in Concert @ Ruigoord
with the new album "Pomol"
Experimental electronic and pagan songs of ancient Russia.
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