V/A - Let Me Perish Without Return: Lament and Longing from the Fading Russian Empire, 1889-1917 LP Books Instead of us looking up

Instead of us looking up at the land

with recordings captured in the forests and caves of rural Quebec

as idiosyncratic as possible and as muscling as needed

my hero was this guy that was—I guess you'd call people of his ilk—a polymath

V/A - Let Me Perish Without Return: Lament and Longing from the Fading Russian Empire, 1889-1917 LP Books Instead of us looking upDeath Is Not The End's next release with Gary Sullivan's Bodega Pop project rooted in a passion for digging for music in bodegas and cell phone stores across NYC's boroughs. This edition 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