Wild games by VEDAN KOLOD

With «Wild Games» Vedan Kolod celebrate their 15th anniversary as a group. It is the first album since «Gorodische» was released in 2014. With «Wild Games» the trio goes back to their first album «Tribes» from 2005, which dealt with shamanic music tradition of Siberia. «Wild Games» was recorded under live conditions and only very sparingly reworked. According to singer Tatyana Naryshkina, the central song is the track «Fox», which returns to the early days of the band with its singing based on the shamanic tradition and the percussive elements. «Fox» is about a girl who becomes a fox. «After this song, the rest of the album took shape,» recalls Naryshkina. Children’s folk tunes were added as distinctive elements. It is played on historical instruments such as Russian double flute, hurdy-gurdy and gusli.
«Wild Games» is an album that is characterized by the love of the band members for the harsh Siberian nature and its wild animal world. The animals and their «endless play with death» were the main inspiration for the compositions, says singer and multi-instrumentalist Valery Naryshkin.

VEDAN KOLOD shows the musical culture of ancient and medieval Russia, when instrumental music was closely intertwined with the vocal tradition. The repertoire of Vedan Kolod includes original songs based on Old Russian language, authentic and folklore songs of the Siberian people, myths and legends of Western Russia, arranged by Tatyana Naryshkina.