Strom, Yale & Hot Pstromi / City Of The Future
Album: | City Of The Future | Collection: | World | |
Artist: | Strom, Yale & Hot Pstromi | Added: | Mar 2016 | |
Label: | Arc Music Inc. |
A-File Activity
Add Date: | 2016-03-06 | Pull Date: | 2016-05-08 | Charts: | Reggae/World |
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Week Ending: | Mar 27 | Mar 20 |
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Airplays: | 1 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
1. | Mar 26, 2016: | Music Casserole
Factory Song |
2. | Mar 15, 2016: | That's Not Bluegrass
City Of The Future |
Album Review
Margy Kahn
Reviewed 2016-03-02
Reviewed 2016-03-02
City of the Future – Yale Strom & Hot Pstromi
Yale Stom and musical compatriots unearth and re-create the songs from the Yiddish culture that was thriving in the USSR of the 1930's; reminiscent of “Partisans of Vilna,” album of songs from the Jewish resistance in WWII, although not as emotional and not yet disillusioned with Soviet policies
NO FCC's; favorite tracks: 4, 6, 8, 9, 19
1- 3:36 – nice intro with clarinet, violin, etc. --about the worker behind the work
2-3:21-- “Red Army” – a capella harmony with percussion
3-5:23-- more upbeat klezmerish sound w/growly dialogue between baritone sax and fiddle
*4-3:10-- pretty song about sledding with female vocalist and guitar shows off earthiness and onomatopoeia of Yiddish
5—3:59-- ballad of a socialist hero/martyr in mixed harmony; piccolo weaves in and out
*6-3:36- “Girls at the Machines” - nice rhythm; female vocalists sing of labor and the Comintern
7-3:22- male voices sing in harmony, slow marching rhythm
*8-2:36- nice intro with whistle and balalaika –ode to builders
**9-4:33 – “City of the Future,” paean to a socialist workers utopia; upbeat accordion
10-2:38 – dirge about Lenin's death
11-3:42-- “My Youth” with solo male vocalist and balalaika tremulo
12-5:29—starts with dissonance – song about the Red Guard
13-2:30- “This Will Be Our Final Struggle” – a little dour
14-1:50--”Song of the Collective Farmer” – seriously
15-6:52 – paean to a tractor driver with long instrumental interlude
16-2:39-- “A Well” – sweet choral piece about the beauty of a well
17-6:21 – fond remembrance of the October revolution in the Soviet style with baritone,chorus& flute
18-1:46--”Luminous Detachments” --klezmer sound – fiddler and baritone sax play off each other
*19-4:18 –unison female singers start off “Factory Song” with ay-yay-yay-yay-yay
Yale Stom and musical compatriots unearth and re-create the songs from the Yiddish culture that was thriving in the USSR of the 1930's; reminiscent of “Partisans of Vilna,” album of songs from the Jewish resistance in WWII, although not as emotional and not yet disillusioned with Soviet policies
NO FCC's; favorite tracks: 4, 6, 8, 9, 19
1- 3:36 – nice intro with clarinet, violin, etc. --about the worker behind the work
2-3:21-- “Red Army” – a capella harmony with percussion
3-5:23-- more upbeat klezmerish sound w/growly dialogue between baritone sax and fiddle
*4-3:10-- pretty song about sledding with female vocalist and guitar shows off earthiness and onomatopoeia of Yiddish
5—3:59-- ballad of a socialist hero/martyr in mixed harmony; piccolo weaves in and out
*6-3:36- “Girls at the Machines” - nice rhythm; female vocalists sing of labor and the Comintern
7-3:22- male voices sing in harmony, slow marching rhythm
*8-2:36- nice intro with whistle and balalaika –ode to builders
**9-4:33 – “City of the Future,” paean to a socialist workers utopia; upbeat accordion
10-2:38 – dirge about Lenin's death
11-3:42-- “My Youth” with solo male vocalist and balalaika tremulo
12-5:29—starts with dissonance – song about the Red Guard
13-2:30- “This Will Be Our Final Struggle” – a little dour
14-1:50--”Song of the Collective Farmer” – seriously
15-6:52 – paean to a tractor driver with long instrumental interlude
16-2:39-- “A Well” – sweet choral piece about the beauty of a well
17-6:21 – fond remembrance of the October revolution in the Soviet style with baritone,chorus& flute
18-1:46--”Luminous Detachments” --klezmer sound – fiddler and baritone sax play off each other
*19-4:18 –unison female singers start off “Factory Song” with ay-yay-yay-yay-yay
Track Listing
1. | Who Did It | 11. | My Youth | |||
2. | Red Army | 12. | The Young Guard | |||
3. | Young Forces Grow | 13. | This Will Be | |||
4. | On The Slope | 14. | The Song Of The Collective Farmer | |||
5. | Hirsh Lekert | 15. | Not To Worry | |||
6. | Girls Sweing At Machines | 16. | A Well | |||
7. | A Stone On A Stone | 17. | October | |||
8. | Among The Highest | 18. | Luminous Detachments | |||
9. | City Of The Future | 19. | Factory Song | |||
10. | Village Pain | . |