Tantsi

''Tantsi'' ( uk, Танці, en, 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 ''Molodaya 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.

A remastered version of the original ''Tantsi'' session was released on viny
on Org Music for Record Store Day 2023
The vinyl release was named
new and notable" in Paste Magazine

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.Archived a
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Track list

References

External links

''Tantsi''
at Discogs

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1989 albums
Vopli Vidopliassova albums