Thursday, October 1, 2009

Russian Surf - Valery Prikazchikov's Electron Quartet / New Electron Quartet

BIG SHOUT THANK YOU to Tru of TrustarVibrations and Black Sea Surfer.

They have answered the mystery and given the info we all needed. Here is the revised post properly done .......

First wave Russian surf recorded in 1965, called Electron or Elektron -depending. Solid melodies and structures, a little more bouncy poppy than the native surf of the same period. Short slabs of fun twang. Enjoy.

Translated tracklist:
(I also had to use a translator for some words, so mistakes are possible)

01 Return 02 Melody From The Movie "Boom"
03 Sun Dial 04 Cheerful Tourists 05 The Fourth Orbit 06 Evening Shades 07 Melody From The Movie "Umbrellas From Cherbourg" 08 Look 09 House Of The Rising Sun 10 New Dance
11 Lullaby For Svetlana 12 Watussi 13 Dreams 14 Steps In The Night 15 A Faster Sound
16 The Shade Of Your Smile 17 Sunbeams 18 Perpetual Motion

myrs

Original post --Need help identifying this - am clueless. Russian surf that sounds like it is from the 60's first wave in style, instrumentation, and song structure. I think it is really modern surf done retro - but - hey - what do I know. If someone can identify it and point me in the direction for a track list not in Russian, I'd really appreciate it. Enjoy it anyway, it's pretty cool.

7 comments:

Trustar said...

Big Boss Man

It's called Surf by Elektron, a Russian group. And you are correct, it was 1st generation surf recorded in 1965. No help with the translation of the tracklist though. When run through Google Translator it just gives me the same phrase back.

Always willing to lend a hand.

I'll try to call you Friday afternoon to see what's up.

T

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Anonymous said...

You can find all infos if you're looking for:

Valery Prikazchikov's
Electron Quartet / New Electron Quartet

kyrillian tracklist:

01 - Вернись (Квартет "Электрон")
02 - Мелодия из к-ф «Бум» (Квартет "Электрон")
03 - Солнечные часы (Квартет "Электрон")
04 - Веселые туристы (Квартет "Электрон")
05 - Четыре орбиты (Квартет "Электрон")
06 - Вечерние тени (Квартет "Электрон")
07 - Мелодия из к-ф «Шербургские зонтики» (Квартет "Электрон")
08 - Посмотри (Квартет "Электрон")
09 - Дом восходящего солнца (Квартет "Электрон")
10 - Новый танец (Квартет "Электрон")
11 - Колыбельная Светлане (Квартет "Новый Электрон")
12 - Ватусси (Валерий Приказчиков)
13 - грёзы (Квартет "Новый Электрон")
14 - Шаги в ночи (Квартет "Новый Электрон")
15 - Быстрее звука (Квартет "Новый Электрон")
16 - Тень твоей улыбки (Квартет "Новый Электрон")
17 - Солнечный зайчик (Квартет "Новый Электрон")
18 - Вечное движение (Валерий Приказчиков)

in the brackets is the artist mentionioned ( Electron Quartet / New Electron Quartet / or Valery Prikazchikov)

Translated tracklist:
(I also have to use a translator for some words, so mistakes
are possible)

01 Return
02 Melody From The Movie "Boom"
03 Sun Dial
04 Cheerful Tourists
05 The Fourth Orbit
06 Evening Shades
07 Melody From The Movie "Umbrellas From Cherbourg"
08 Look
09 House Of The Rising Sun
10 New Dance
11 Lullaby For Svetlana
12 Watussi
13 Dreams
14 Steps In The Night
15 A Faster Sound
16 The Shade Of Your Smile
17 Sunbeams
18 Perpetual Motion

Mike Bass said...

Track 16 is a fine cover of 'The Shadow Of Your Smile' for the correct title. I'll try to check others against some of Chet Atkins work as I hear one or two that strike a chord with me...

Mike Bass said...

Track 2 is the one I was thinking of that Chet Atkins did. His is titled 'Wheels'.

churchkey said...

Great post!
Any chance of a re-post of Terry Ware's Ridin' The Reverb Range?
Thanks for a great blog!

Unknown said...

Looking for a re-up on this one... pretty please?
Thanks!

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