Глушь (Thicket)
It is a mixture of cut pieces from different poems for small children by Irina Tokmakova («Медведь», «Усни-трава», «Где спит рыбка») from a book printed in 1984 found in a secondhand bookshop in our hometown Petrozavodsk in Karelia, Russia; synthesisers and tone-changed samples.
Recorded by Kot Kot (Lena Filatova) in Hegenberg and Weingarten, Germany in 2014 and 2016.
Как на горке – снег, снег
И под горкой – снег, снег
И на ёлке – снег, снег
И под ёлкой – снег, снег
А под снегом спит медведь
А под снегом спит медведь
Тише, тише… Не шуметь
Тише, тише… Не шуметь
Дальний лес стоит стеной
Дальний лес стоит стеной
А в лесу, в глуши лесной
А в лесу, в глуши лесной
Только темень, только тишь
Только темень, только тишь
Только темень, только тишь
Только темень, только тишь
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