Tantsi
| Tantsi | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | 29 March 1989 | |||
| Recorded | February 1989 1988 | |||
| Venue | Institute of Foreign Languages, Kyiv | |||
| Studio | Institute of Metallurgy, Akademmistechko, Kyiv | |||
| Genre | Punk rock Folk rock Ethno-punk | |||
| Length | 44:30 | |||
| Label | Fonograf | |||
| Producer | Vopli Vidopliassova Andrew Rossiter (2023 reissue) | |||
| Vopli Vidopliassova chronology | ||||
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Tantsi (Ukrainian: Танці, English: Dances) is an album by the band Vopli Vidopliassova. It was originally released on 29 March 1989 on Fonograf, the house record label of the newspaper Young Guard (Ukrainian: Молода Гвардія, romanized: Moloda Gvardia). Thirteen of the fourteen tracks were recorded in one night at the Institute of Metallurgy in the Akademmistechko neighborhood of Kyiv; "Mahatma" was recorded live at a show at the Institute of Foreign Languages.
Re-release in the West
The album was featured in the book 100 magnitoalbomov sovetskogo roka. In 2023, a book about the Tantsi recording and the late Soviet Kyiv Underground, written by Maria Sonevytsky, was published in Bloomsbury's 33 1/3 Europe series. The book discusses the context of the Kyiv Underground; the ingenious circular economy devised to release the cassette album in the first place; the role of satire and humor in the band's songs; the relationship of the band to the Komsomol (Communist Youth League); and the enduring meaning of the song "Tantsi" in the aftermath of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.[1]
A remastered version of the original Tantsi session was released on vinyl on Org Music for Record Store Day 2023. The vinyl release was named "new and notable" in Paste Magazine.[2]
Future releases of tracks from the album
Tracks 2 and 11 later became Borshch songs, being released on that band's self-titled EP in 2002. Track 1 was later released on Kraina Mriy. Tracks 3, 4 and 6 ended up on Hvyli Amura. Tracks 5, 10 and 14 were released on Muzika. Tracks 7, 9, 12 and 13 were released on Buly denky. Track 8 made its way to Fayno.
"Banka", an outtake from the sessions, was re-titled "Laznya" and released as a single in early 2019.[3]
Track list
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Танці" (Dancing) | 2:36 |
| 2. | "Я летел" (I'm Flying) | 2:22 |
| 3. | "Оля" (Olga) | 2:25 |
| 4. | "Махатма" (Mahatma) | 5:14 |
| 5. | "Краков'як" (Krakow) | 2:45 |
| 6. | "Товарищ майор" (Comrade Major) | 2:27 |
| 7. | "Політрок" (Politrock) | 2:13 |
| 8. | "Полонина" (Mountains) | 3:45 |
| 9. | "Були деньки" (Back in the Day) | 3:00 |
| 10. | "Музика" (Music) | 4:22 |
| 11. | "Рассвет" (Dawn) | 3:16 |
| 12. | "Налягай" (Nalyagai; Moved to the end of side A on the 2023 LP release, after "Politrok") | 2:12 |
| 13. | "Колискова" (Lullaby) | 4:28 |
| 14. | "Гей! Любо!" (Hey, O.K!) | 3:23 |