Russian folk music - Songs to soothe the Russian censors

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Dark eyed girl, a man that forgets the name of his crush. Kharitonov sings and acts cockily and I love it.
Horse, from Lyuve. It gets me every time when I'm listening it. No matter where I am, I am suddenly riding on a horse through the Russian's steppe.
 

Песня о Тачанке (Song of the Tachanka) was a song about the Russian Civil War, or more specifically, the machine-gun carts that the Red Army used to blast everyone to shit. It's obnoxiously catchy and I've never been able to get it out of my head.
 
Pitere pit said:
Horse, from Lyuve. It gets me every time when I'm listening it. No matter where I am, I am suddenly riding on a horse through the Russian's steppe.
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Lyube is great. That's far from their only song with a "pure folk" sound to it, too.
Their more rock-oriented songs are great too, but this isn't the thread for that.
 
Dunno about folk music, but I'm a huge fan of this Russian war athem: Katusha (Катюша)

This is the original version
The Remix
And my personal favorite, a rendition of the song sang by Japanese voice actors
 
It's not really folk-music, but I like Borodin's "In the Steppes of Central Asia". I think it's part of that tradition of Debussy-esque symphonic poems, where the song is supposed to paint a picture of a landscape or a scene. In this case, the landscape is the titular Steppes of Central Asia, and the scene is a Central Asian trading caravan accompanied by Russian Cossack guards as they cross the vast and lonely steppe. You can hear there is a separate "Russian" leitmotif or theme, and a separate "Asian" motif or theme, and the music bounces from one to the other, representing the meeting of the two different cultures on the frontier of the empire.

 
This one is my personal favourite. Very soothing song.


Deep, deep
Under the Earth [lies] the ore
Deep, deep
In the well [is] the water
Deeper than that
[Is] my grief,
Deeper than that
[Are] my sorrows

Wide, wide
Flows the river
Wide wide
Lie fields
Wider than that
[Is] the light of bliss
Wider than that
[Is] my happiness

Far, far
Has run away my horse
Far, far
Has ridden my horse
Far, far
Cannot outrun him
Far, far
Cannot catch him
Farther than that
[Is] my sadness
Farther than that
[Is] my longing

High, high
Has flown the falcon
High, high
Has flown the falcon
High, high
Has risen the falcon
High beyond the clouds
Has flown the falcon
Higher than that
[Is] my joy
Higher than that
[Is] my love

Not really a traditional folk song but something that tries to be and is quite nice.

 
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