Tatyana (Beautiful Square) EP

by Eugene The Oceanographer

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Theme For Lenin 01:30
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Theme For Stalin 01:47
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Theme For Khrushchev 02:47
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THE LAMBS BLOOD DRAWN ACROSS THE DOOR, MOTHER YOU COULD HAVE USED MORE, I HEAR THE LAND CRY OUT IN GRIEF, I HEAR THE SLAVE GIRL AND PHARAOH WEEP, AND I DON'T THINK I BELONG TO GOD, TO THE REDEEMER OR CORGI DOGS, BUT THE OLIVE BRANCH AND THE CLAY POT, EXPOSED AT BIRTH BUT FOUND INTACT.
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Theme For Brezhnev 01:01
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перестро́йка / Theme For Raisa (Gorbachova) 03:13
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Theme For Yeltsin 01:20
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Recorded in Moscow, Russian Federation, May 2015.

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Для Татьяны.

Благодарим Вас за проявленный мне в Москву. Я сожалею, что мы должны были стоять так долго в дождь и ветер , так что я мог видеть Ленина , но это было , вероятно, одним из самых значимых событий в моей жизни . Было очень трогательно , чтобы поговорить с вами о вы опыте жизни через пророссийски Союза , я надеюсь, что остальные из вы жизнь приносит вам больше комфорта , безопасности и счастье. Спасибо за поистине удивительный день .

This is the album I recorded last month in Moscow. My guide Tatyana told me that Red Square is a mistranslation and in Russia, it is actually known as Beautiful Square, so I named the EP, Tatyana (Beautiful Square)... I was extremely moved by Tatyana's honesty as she spoke about the incredible difficulties she had to bare as a young women and inevitably a Mother in the Soviet Union. Her eyes told the brutal truth of great hardship incomprehensible to me. She was open about her disdain as she took me around Red Square, making a point not to join me in seeing Lenins embalmed corpse at the center of his Mausoleum, or standing over the graves of Stalin and Brezhnev alongside the Kremlin Wall. Getting closer to a clearer understanding of Russia's sacrifice since the Russian Revolution, the emptiness of these great monuments was heartbreaking. Afterwards Tatyana took me to the graves of Raisia Gorbachev, Khrushchev and Yeltsin in Novodevichy Cemetery...this intimate burial site of Khrushchev, the general secretary kept from the prestige of Red Square was again apparent of the ultimately meaningless hierarchy of humanity that even the socialist paradise could not over come...So basically I was very moved by seeing the burial sites of some of the most powerful men of the 20th century but typically the true beauty that is the sincerity of Women, and Women's understanding of life made me accept the sham. As these great figures are united in death, I felt inclined to attempt to redefine how they are remembered through the composition of new funeral marches...

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released June 19, 2015

Мэтью Дж О'Тул

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