Moscow's localities and its thousand years get one fast folk-rock stomp, tracing Yuri the Long-Armed's 1147 village, Napoleon's empty burnt capital, the palace-metro, the Ring-road jams, and the fact that Red Square was named for beauty, not the colour. Krasnaya means beautiful — poyekhali.

L14 The Local Anthems World (Russian folk-rock fusion - balalaika/accordion + rock kit, equal male & female leads)

Krasnaya Means Beautiful

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Style

Driving Russian folk-rock fusion at roughly 138 BPM with heavy stomping percussion, balalaika and domra tremolo, accordion and folk fiddle over crunchy distorted guitar, a heavily Russian-accented male baritone chant and open-throated female Slavic folk belt trading verses into shouted unison choruses.

Tags

#Moscow
#Moskva
#RedSquare
#Kremlin
#StBasils
#Russia
#RussianFolk
#FolkRock
#cityanthem
#balalaika
#KrasnayaMeansBeautiful
#Poyekhali
#originalsong
#ossory