Bulat Okudzhava Sings His Own Songs Underground Soviet Ballads 1967 US Pressing
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Bulat Okudzhava Sings His Own Songs, Arfa Records, ALP 1015. Bulat Shalvovich Okudzhava (also transliterated as Boulat Okudjava, Okoudjava, or Okoudzhava; , Georgian: ????? ???????) (May 9, 1924 - June 12, 1997) was a Soviet poet, writer, musician, novelist, and singer-songwriter. He was one of the founders of the Russian genre called "author song" (????????? ?????,avtorskaya pesnya). He was of Georgian-Armenian origin, born in Moscow and died in Paris. He was the author of about 200 songs, set to his own poetry. His songs are a mixture of Russian poetic and folksong traditions and the French chansonnier style represented by such contemporaries of Okudzhava as Georges Brassens. Though his songs were never overtly political (in contrast to those of some of his fellow "bards"), the freshness and independence of Okudzhava's artistic voice presented a subtle challenge to Soviet cultural authorities, who were thus hesitant for many years to give official sanction to Okudzhava as a singer-songwriter. This album is a rare US release on the Chicago based Arfa Records a small label specializing in Russian language records. These recordings were made in clubs and homes in with amateur recording equipment and smuggled out of the USSR and we never released commercially. An extremely rare album in Very Good+ condition slightest of wear, a four page lyric sheet in Russian language is included.
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