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Kola Beldy - White Island (2022)

Kola Beldy - White Island (2022)

BAND/ARTIST: Kola Beldy

Ebalunga!! and Everland Music presents another lost pearl of music Kola Beldy — White Island. The first reissue in a series of planned reissues of Kola Beldy heritage on CD and Vinyl. Carefully remastered songs and original artworks and exclusive postcards with paintings by Olga Beldi, wife of Kola Beldy. The life of Kola Beldy could be a scenario for a movie and no doubt that one day someone will make a film about his art and life. Unfortunately, we’re limited by a text format here and can’t tell you a lot, but just several lines. Kola Beldy was born in 1929 in The Russian Far East and after World War II( where he was 15-16(!)) years old he started work and studied music and vocal technics. Since 1957 he started a big carrier and for more than 30 years, Kola Beldy toured the country and abroad, performed in 46 countries of the world, which became as recognizable in Europe as in the USSR. From 1972-1973 after his groundbreaking song «I’ll Take You to the Tundra» he became one of the most popular and beloved artists in the USSR. He was an Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1985), Honored Artist of the Yakut, Honored Artist of the Buryatia. But besides the popular side of his art Beldi always carefully worked to preserve the cultural heritage of The Nanai people, their traditions, and songs. These songs are interesting for the more sophisticated listeners are present on the album «White Island». Kola Belda’s voice is sonorous, pleasant timbre, a cross between a tenor and a lyric baritone. Belda’s singing carries some of the features of bel canto — singing breathing, timbre evenness in the range, cantilena, but on the other hand, it gives the impression of an amateur, and the artist himself is a nugget. As a Nanai, Kola Beldy spoke as if on behalf of all small peoples of the Far East, Siberia, and the Far North. The theme of the small peoples of the USSR, living practically by subsistence farming, belonged only to K. Beldy. The heroes of his songs are the Chukchi, Nanai, Udege, Nivkh, Orochi, Khanty, Komi, etc., who live their own simple life, simple-minded, good-natured workers — fishermen, sailors, hunters, reindeer herders. Kola Beldy glorified the beauty of the tundra and the Far North, poeticized the lessons of small peoples. He sang about Chukotka, Naryan-Mar, Sakhalin, about the tundra and taiga. A separate motive in his work is reindeer and everything connected with them; the deer is the main breadwinner for such people.

Tracklist:
1.01 - Kola Beldy - Master of Forest (Remastered) (4:31)
1.02 - Kola Beldy - Seagull (Remastered) (3:36)
1.03 - Kola Beldy - Coming Home (Remastered) (3:25)
1.04 - Kola Beldy - To the Ocean (Remastered) (5:07)
1.05 - Kola Beldy - A Hunter (Remastered) (3:53)
1.06 - Kola Beldy - Fisher-Woman (Remastered) (3:16)
1.07 - Kola Beldy - Holiday (Remastered) (4:16)
1.08 - Kola Beldy - White Island (Remastered) (4:28)
1.09 - Kola Beldy - By Dog Sledge (Remastered) (3:41)
1.10 - Kola Beldy - My Darling (Remastered) (3:54)
1.11 - Kola Beldy - Greeting (Remastered) (2:50)

Year 2022 | Funk | World | Folk | Rock | Disco | FLAC / APE

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