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ErsatzMusikaVoice Letter (Asphalt Tango) The musicians who make up this Berlin-based sextet spent their formative years in the Soviet sphere (Ukraine, Russia and Estonia). Several band members have already caused a sensation in the Moscow underground scene. They emigrated to Berlin at the beginning of the 1990s and have been busy enriching the eastern diaspora with their musical projects ever since. The multifaceted artist Irina Doubrovskaja founded ErsatzMusika in 2006, also contributing the songs and lyrics for their band’s debut album. Despite keeping clear of the trendy scene of dub, urban folk, world, minimalism and balladeering, the group’s Russian chanson proves strangely familiar to fans of these popular genres.
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More info: Musicians Irina Doubrovskaja - Keyboards, Accordion, Vocal Leonid Soybelman - Guitar Mikhail Zhukov - Percussion Sergey Vorontsov - Bass, Guitar, Vocal Igor Vdovchenko - Bass, Harmonica Roman Bushuev - Drums These 6 Berlin-based musicians spent a large proportion of their lives in the USSR - that mythical and legendary place beyond the iron stage curtain where Gypsies sing of woollen boots, worshippers of Mammon decry broken hearts and glasses sing paeans to lost love. And where, what's more, the troubadour is an outlaw. Several band members have already caused a sensation in the Moscow underground scene. They immigrated to Berlin at the beginning of the nineties and have been enriching the Russian diaspora with various musical projects ever since. The multifaceted artist Irina Doubrovskaja founded ErsatzMusika in 2006, also writing the songs and lyrics for their debut album. Despite the remove from dub, urban folk, world, minimalism and balladeering at which ErsatzMusika stays, the group's music proves strangely familiar to audiences of these musical strains. Yet their music is not an eclectic lucky dip, but rather a collection of acoustic letters in a strange vernacular, a human-made-for-human ersatz for the sounds of information-age intercourse. It goes out with love...
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