Taken from the new album 'Grassed Inn', Blank Realm unleash the triumphant transition of their nascent fluorescent rock'n'roll glow in to full-blown spiky pop craft. Harking back to the halcyon days of Talking Heads, underpinned by the off-kilter psychedelic blues of Royal Trux. Like Dylan mixing it with Suicide on Highway 61 and a half in a far off universe.
 
“Putting the arty in to party” The Guardian 4*s

iTunes

Blank Realm - Back To The Flood

The Friend by Alisha Sufit of Magic Carpet band written in 1970

The Friend

When he died in November 2015, Eldar Ryazanov left behind an astonishing fifty year, thirty movie legacy which included some of the most popular Russian films of the modern age. And of all of them, the one that remains the most popular is 'The Irony of Fate’, a comedy made for MOS film in 1975. 

But The Irony of Fate owes part of its immense popularity not just to its genius director, its clever comedy, its satirical subplot or its starring actors. It is a film with songs. And those songs and the underscore that accompanied them have become as memorable as the film itself, they have become part of the Russian musical DNA, recognised even when the name of their composer, Mikael Tariverdiev, is not.

'The Irony Of Fate - The Orginial Score' is released on vinyl November 25th on Earth Recordings.


Bagpuss End Music

Earth Recordings

Related tracks