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The Dartz is a pop-folk (as they name themselves) band from Saint Petersburg, Russia. The band called their genre "pop-folk", meaning "popular, merry, modern, understandable, appealing, positive". The musicians are inspired by songs and dances of Europe: Irish, Scottish, Breton, Balkan, Spanish, Jewish, Scandinavian, and Russian melodies. The band is extraordinary free with folk music, and almost always composes its own Russian texts, putting them onto traditional melodies, or sometimes translates the songs into Russian. That's why The Dartz consider themselves a folk band as well as authors. This principal line still exists since their first album. These days the folk lore is understood in a deeper sense, it went deeper, and diffused in arrangements, and even in blues compositions something celtic appears sometimes, and rock'n'roll motiffs can be met in jigs, for instance — a guitar solo. In authentic celtic music guitar never plays solo and isn't even recognized as an instrument.
[edit] Members
[edit] Former members
[edit] Temporary live members
- Natalia "Hellawes" O'Shea (of Melnitsa) — vocals
- Konstantin "Troll" Rumyantsev (of Troll Gnet Yel) — vocals
- Yelena "Mirish" Khanpira (of Tol Miriam) — vocals
- Dmitry Ivanov (of Racoons) — drums
[edit] Discography
[edit] Albums
Переверни Страницу
(February 2004 - January 2005)
(Boglach Records)
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Франсуазиг
(July 2002 - January 2003)
(Boglach Records)
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Пиво И Пельмени
(June 1999)
(Caravan Records)
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Ирландские Поминки
(1997)
(Caravan Records)
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[edit] Singles
Когда Позовет Тебя Море
(August-September 2006)
(Boglach Records)
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[edit] Compilations
[edit] Live albums
White Album
(March 2001))
(Dobrye Volshebniki)
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[edit] External links
Russian Federation
