The year was 1979 and bluesman B.B. King was playing his first riff in Tbilisi, the capital of Soviet Georgia, when a gentleman with thick sideburns stood up from his seat and shrieked with joy. Gogi ...
The discovery of one old record is breathing new life into a genre of Soviet-era music that hasn't been widely heard overseas for decades. About a decade ago, music producer Vik Sohonie was in New ...
Ored Recordings documents chants, laments and displacement songs of the Caucasus threatened by erasure. After the invasion of Ukraine, its ‘punk ethnography’ has never been more urgent ...