Let Me Perish Without Return: Lament and Longing from the Fading Russian Empire, 1889-1917

Independent shop in BallardDirections

Available from Light in the Attic Records when we last checked, in the last two days. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

Death Is Not The End collaborate with Bodega Pop, Gary Sullivan's cult WFMU show and blog rooted in a passion for digging for music in bodegas and cell-phone stores across NYC's boroughs. Let Me Perish Without Return focuses in on early recordings found in Russian neighborhoods in Brooklyn & Queens. "At the turn of the last century, the Russian Empire stood at a crossroads, caught between the weight of its imperial past and the promise of a radically altered future. Recorded during a period of p