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Source: Melody – An important disclaimer is at the bottom of this article.
Vinyl production is planned to resume in Russia in 2024, in time for the label's 60th anniversary. Vinyl, which had fallen out of favor with music lovers for some time, has regained its prestige and then become a fashionable medium in the 21st century.
"Most of our compatriots still associate Firma Melodiya with vinyl records. The revival of production under the Melodiya brand is a natural progression of musical traditions in our country, which will allow the plant to become a worthy successor to the Soviet Melodiya plants. For a long time, the main plant in the country was Aprelevka—the legendary Soviet Melodiya plant. And it's very important for us that Badri Devishev, the chief engineer of the Aprelevka plant, was with us during the launch of vinyl production," comments Firma Melodiya CEO Andrey Krichevsky.
Today, the company is launching the release of Melodiya's albums, with plans to expand the line and release records commissioned by artists and music companies.
"The first record from the new production, oddly enough, will be a famous Soviet autogenic training track from the 1980s—a recording developed by doctors at the Energetik sanatorium in Yalta as part of a healthy lifestyle program and anti-alcohol and anti-smoking campaigns. It's quite a funny recording, which people share online as a meme, skeptical that the Soviet Melodiya record company was capable of such a thing. In the 1980s, records with specially selected tracks and narrator instructions became a sought-after alternative medicine method, perceived as a panacea for all ailments. We believe this release will be relevant in the run-up to the New Year holidays," says Karina Abramyan, Melodiya's First Deputy General Director.
We couldn't help but include David Tukhmanov's "On the Wave of My Memory" in the first batch of records, a hit that has remained a hit for 50 years. "On the Wave of My Memory" earned a reputation as the first concept album of Soviet recording, playing in our country the same role that the Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" played in the world. The cycle consists of ten numbers based on texts by Sappho, Goethe, Shelley, Mickiewicz, Baudelaire, Verlaine, Guillén, Akhmatova, and Voloshin.
Another release is the album "Disco Alliance" by the Latvian band Zodiac. Formed at the Latvian Conservatory, they were considered a local instrumental rock band and strayed far from academic conventions. "Cult record," "bestseller," and otherworldly music are just a few of the adjectives used to describe "Disco Alliance."
The next record was the landmark album by the VIA "Dos-Mukasan." Among music lovers captivated by the so-called "Soviet groove," Dos-Mukasan has developed a cult following. Dos-Mukasan is the founder of modern Kazakh pop music, drawing on the roots of folk tradition while simultaneously finding common ground with the Western world. The Kazakh VIA's first album has become a rarity, an object of desire, and a target for diggers and collectors. Its original edition, released in 1976, sells for record prices among vinyl enthusiasts for Soviet records. Fifty years later, Melodiya is reissuing this album.
The records were printed in 2025. The masters were made from the original master tapes. The sound engineer for the restoration and remastering was Maxim Pilipov. The editions contain original annotations by music critic Denis Boyarinov and PhD in psychology, Associate Professor Natalia Kiselnikova.
Firm Melodiya, 08.12.2025
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