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GULAG TUNES -- SURF INSTRO VERSION OF RUSSIAN TRADITIONAL PRISON SONGS. Prison songs (as it calls blatnjak) are very popular in Russia. They get such great popularity here as country music in USA. There are many music labels and radio stations for such kind of music. Why criminal music and criminal lifestyle is so popular here? Is it because melody harmony developed from Russian roots music? Or because total criminalization of Russian life?
We try to play traditional jailhouse songs in surf manner to make this strange trashy style known worldwide and give this stuffs new free life.
New Gandy Dancer "Superb album throughout and hot for 2006." read more
Baltimore Sun "In part to make life behind bars more bearable, prisoners sang about it." read more
The Moscow Times "The cover of "Gulag Tunes" is nothing if not eye-catching." read more
Phil Dirt "What a cool concept." read more
New York Times "The genre's popularity has even spurred an indie backlash" read more
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Gulag Tunes CD available now:
USA : DWM Music Company , Melodic Revolution store
Europe: Twangsville Productions (Finland), Surfin's Back Again (Holland)
Russia: Soyuz , Transylvania
Gulag Tunes second CD available now:
USA : DWM Music Company , Melodic Revolution store
Europe: Fuzzsurf shop
Russia: Soyuz , Transylvania
Booking: Lena (Gulag Tunes admin) [email protected]
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Member Since: 1/1/2006
Band Website: ????? ? ??????
Band Members:
........ Max Temnow - guitars, arrangement aka Bombers , Spootniks , Bivni, Lya Minor , ex Mad Fish , ex Leningrad , internet radio show presenter Radio Shock ( Weather Report surf show )

........ Mike Antipow - idea, guitars, organs, programming, producing aka Vivisectors , Electric Gurus

........ Iliya Agapov - live drums

........ Sergey Pahomov ( Pahom ) - percussion, screaming

........ Syaga - bass

........ Mike Smirnoff - drums (on records) aka Greenmen , Bombers drummer

........ Godfather ("pahan") of the gang - A.K.Troitsky
Influences: Arkadiy Severny, ensemble Bratia Jemchujniye , Leonid Utesov, Takeshi Terauchi, Psoy Korolenko, Michail Vavich, Vladimir Visotsky, Alesha Dmitrievich, Abe Schwartz, Amsterdam Klezmer Band, Valeriy Prikazchikov, Theo Schumann Combo, Die Butlers, Taifuni, Karel Duba, Johnny Cash, Slava Kunst Orchestra, Frankie Echo Quintett, Los Banditos, Phantom Frank, Perry & Kingsley, Dead Brothers, Fuzztones, Red Elvises, rautalanka music, NOM

Sounds Like: Outsider's art for insiders

BÃ¼cke Dich gig Mar 23 2008 Saalfeld (Germany)

BÃ¼cke Dich gig Mar 23 2008 Saalfeld (Germany)

Groovestation gig Mar 28 Dresden (Germany)
Record Label: Soyuz Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Gig fotos (club Ogi Apr 2007)

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Posted by gulag tunes on Mon, 30 Apr 2007 11:21:00 PST

English reviews (Pipeline and new Gandy Dancer)

New Gandy Dancer, ISSUE 81 GULAG TUNES "and other good melidies" Doesn't say so, but this is actually volume 2 of Russian prison songs which are remarkable Venturised and twanged up and the third ...
Posted by gulag tunes on Sat, 21 Apr 2007 04:09:00 PST

Phil Dirt review on second Gulag Tunes album

Gulag Tunes - Surf Instro Versions Of Russian Traditional Jailhouse Songs 2 Volume 2 features more wonderful traditional Russian jail house songs converted to surf and rock instro forms. Wonderful!...
Posted by gulag tunes on Tue, 23 Jan 2007 03:14:00 PST

NYT mentioned Gulag Tunes

NYT mentioned Gulag Tunes in article about russian blatniye pesni "The genre's popularity has even spurred an indie backlash, including Gulag Tunes, a version of Stalin-era prison songs set to s...
Posted by gulag tunes on Sat, 05 Aug 2006 05:53:00 PST

Review in "new" Gandy Dancer zine

New Gandy Dancer (issue 78 June 2006) Gulag Tunes Soyuz Records SZCD367906 Subtitled instro of Russian Traditional jailhouse songs', this is the 2nd CD from Russia's own Vivisectors. Pr...
Posted by gulag tunes on Fri, 14 Jul 2006 06:35:00 PST

article in Baltimore Sun

Mixing surf music with jail tunesAlbum modernizes old Russian prison songs By Erika Niedowski Sun Foreign Reporter Originally published June 19, 2006 MOSCOW // A new album here paints a scene on its ...
Posted by gulag tunes on Mon, 26 Jun 2006 03:42:00 PST

article about Gulag Tunes in The Moscow Times

Surf's Up, Comrade A new album mixes Russian prison songs dating back to the Stalin era with Hawaiian-style surf music. Article about Gulag Tunes written by english journalist Anna Malpas (The Mosco...
Posted by gulag tunes on Fri, 09 Jun 2006 03:07:00 PST

some words about Gulag Tunes cover

The theme of this cover is traditional Gulag prisoner tatoo. Paradox is thatprisoners tatooed Stalin with necklace of skulls (and alsowith vampire fangs) in order to safe they lives. It was supe...
Posted by gulag tunes on Wed, 10 May 2006 06:15:00 PST

How to play the guitar "Po Russkiy"(article)

Find good article http://www.stseraphimschurch.org/we-magazine/statyi2005/guit arrussianstyle.html...
Posted by gulag tunes on Thu, 13 Apr 2006 02:22:00 PST

video download

Watch Gulag Tunes stuff "Pigeons Flying Over Our Jail" at Waxfoot Surf tv show # 55 (Halloween) Download it here http://www.surfmusic.ru/video/gulagtuneswaxfoot55.avi...
Posted by gulag tunes on Wed, 05 Apr 2006 04:44:00 PST