(LP+DL) When he died in November 2015 Eldar Ryazanov left behind an astonishing fifty year thirty movie legacy which included some of the most popular Russian films of the modern age. And of all of them the one that remains the most popular is ’The Irony of Fate’ a comedy made for MOS film in 1975. But The Irony of Fate owes part of its immense popularity not just to its genius director its clever comedy its satirical subplot or its starring actors. It is a film with songs. And those songs and the underscore that accompanied them have become as memorable as the film itself they have become part of the Russian musical DNA recognised even when the name of their composer Mikael Tariverdiev is not. Following the award-nominated ‘Film Music’ collection of last year comes the first in a series of stand-alone reissues documenting the astonishing body of work by Russian composer Mikael Tariverdiev. Single vinyl LP remastered from Mikael’s own tapes in tandem with his widow Vera Tariverdieva complete with sleeve notes by Earth collaborator Stephen Coates.

A1. Overture
A2. What is Happening to Me?
A3. Hope
A4. Expectation of the New Year
A5. No One is Home
A6. Snow Over Leningrad
A7. Po Ulitse Moei Kotoriy God
A8. On the Third Stroiteley Street
B1. On Tikhoretskaya
B2. Happy New Year!
B3. I Like
B4. Aria for a Moscow Guest
B5. The Last Waltz
B6. I Ask the Mirror
B7. I Ask the Ash Tree
B8. Don Not Leave your Lover
B9. Melody