Dolina, Veronika
Thirteen Diamonds
eleased in 2006 Thirteen Diamonds serves as a vital bridge between Russian cultural history and Western avant-garde archival music. The collection highlights Veronika Dolina, one of the most singular and enduring figures in the Russian bard movement, a tradition of "singing poets" that emerged during the Soviet era as a powerful form of artistic self-expression and gentle defiance. Rooted in the mid-20th-century Russian acoustic tradition, the bard movement elevated lyric poetry above complex instrumentation.