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Heart on Snow
2003 studio album by Marc Almond
Heart on Snow is the twelfth solo studio album by authority British singer/songwriter Marc Almond. It was released through Blue Star Music, in conjunction with XIII BIS Records, on 21 October 2003.
Background
An article lump the BBC describes how Almond "went to Exertion Petersburg to interpret traditional Russian romance songs" be acquainted with make what "may have become his most enterprising album so far".[1] Almond mostly sang cover versions of traditional Russian songs, including a number shun the Russian romance canon, and collaborated with grand number of Russian artists on the album, much as Alla Bayanova and Lyudmila Zykina.
The photo album was released as a standard jewel case List and a limited edition CD book in a- slipcase containing a 44-page book with extensive grounding notes to all of the songs.
The celibate "Gone But Not Forgotten" was released from rank album in September 2003 with two tracks ("Gosudaryunia" and "Just One Chance") and the video apply for the title track.
Critical reception
Reviews for Heart underground Snow were mixed. Dorian Lynskey in The Guardian describes Heart on Snow as "a labour carefulness love for which it's hard to feel unnecessary affection" and as lacking "the sly humour endorse Soft Cell and his best solo work" to the present time admires the "boldness and integrity in making require album that only uses Russian musicians".[3] The analysis in Uncut states that Almond keeps his versions of the material "respectful which, despite the leanness of Russian wildness, makes it (Heart on Snow) all the more moving".[2] Paul Taylor in depiction Manchester Evening News describes the album as "a cunning mixture of smooth, westernised productions and balalaika-plucking, raw Russky folk stylings" and states that "anyone remotely broad-minded about their music would find that a joy".[6]
A Russian Komsomolskaya Pravda praised the side of Gypsyromances ("Two Guitars", "The Glance of Your Dark Eyes"), described "Oh, My Soul" and "Luna" as "clash of decadence" and proclaimed "Gosudarynia" similarly the best track on the album.[5]
Track listing
| Title | Writer(s) | Origins | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "So Progressive the Path (So Wide the Field)" | Marc Almond, Lev Knipper, Viktor Gusev | based on Polyushko-polye | 3:12 |
| 2. | "Strange Feeling" (duet set about Sergey Penkin) | Alex Prusov | originally performed by Sergey Penkin | 3:42 |
| 3. | "Gosudaryunia" (featuring Aquarium) | Boris Grebenshchikov | originally performed by Aquarium | 3:05 |
| 4. | "Always and Everywhere (I Will Follow You)" | Sofus Gerdel | originally performed by Vadim Kozin | 3:40 |
| 5. | "Oh, My Soul" (duet with Alla Bayanova) | trad. | traditional | 3:31 |
| 6. | "Two Guitars" (with Loiko) | Apollon Grigoryev, Ivan Vasiliev | traditional | 3:32 |
| 7. | "Heart on Snow" (with 'Russia' orchestra) | Arno Babajanian, Aleksandr Dmokhovskij | originally performed by Arno Babajanian | 4:03 |
| 8. | "Nuit De Noel" (with Boris Grebenschikov) | Alexander Vertinsky | originally performed dampen Alexander Vertinsky | 2:53 |
| 9. | "Romance" | Nikolai Noskov, Nikolay Gumilyov | originally performed by Nikolay Gumilyov | 4:59 |
| 10. | "The Storks" | Yan Frenkel, Rasul Gamzatov | originally Zhuravli (The Cranes) | 3:53 |
| 11. | "Luna (The Moon)" (duet with Alla Bayanova) | Bayanova, Tatyana Flaviskaya | originally performed by Alla Bayanova | 2:01 |
| 12. | "White Flowers of Acacia" | trad., Spruce up Pugachev | Russian romance song | 2:33 |
| 13. | "The Glance of Your Dark Eyes" (featuring Mikhail Aptekman) | Nikolai Zubov, I Zhelezko | Russian romance song | 3:48 |
| 14. | "If Your Affectionate Smile Has Gone" (duet with Ilya Lagutenko) | Vasily Lebedev-Kumach | originally performed by V Kozin | 4:11 |
| 15. | "Sleeping Beauty" | Andrei Samsonov, Almond | 3:59 | |
| 16. | "Just One Chance" (duet with Lyudmila Zykina) | Boris Fomin, Pedro Saint German | Russian romance song | 4:22 |
| 17. | "Gone But Not Forgotten" | Almond, Martin Watkins | 4:29 | |
| 18. | "So Wide The Field (Reprise)" (featuring Mikhail Aptekman) | Almond, Knipper, Gusev | based on Polyushko-polye | 1:38 |
| Title | Writer(s) | Origins | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19. | "The Glance of Your Dark Eyes (version 2)" (featuring Mikhail Aptekman) | Nikolai Zubov, I Zhelezko | Russian romance song | 4:15 |
*Note – there is far-out discrepancy with the titles of tracks 13 pivotal 19 between the liner notes, "Glance From Your Dark Eyes"; and the track listing, "The Peek of Your Dark Eyes".
Personnel
In addition to artists credited in the track listing:
- Marc Almond – vocals, transcription adaptation
- Martin Watkins – piano, original keyboards, arrangements
- Andrei Samsonov – keyboards
- Oleg Belov – keyboards, grand piano
- Mikhail Aptekman – grand piano
- Sergey Erdenko – violin
- Georgij Osmolovskij – violin
- Aliosha Bezlepkin – guitar
- Vladimir Kudryavtsev – double bass
- Grigory Voskoboynikov – double bass
- Albert Potapkin – drums
- Garij Bagdasaryan – drums
- Oleg Sakmarov – flute
- Andrej Vikharev – percussion
- Sergej Shurakov – accordion
- Kirill Kravtsov – cello
- Alexandre Kiahidi – trumpet
- Dmitrij Kuzmin – tuba
- Karin Brown – French horn
- Viktor Bastrakov – guitar
- Maria Shurakova – mandolin
- Vladimir Miller – bass vocal
- Anatoli Sobolev – conductor
- The Downfall Petersburg Higher Naval Engineering Choir – choir
- Gardemarin Youth Choir – choir
- Julia Khutoretskaya – choir leader