Ivan Bilibin, The Firebird from Vassilissa the Beautiful
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The image above and those that follow are all from Vassilissa the Beautiful. Individual titles weren't always listed.
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Vassilissa in the Forest
I love to discover new music. There are always old favourites but I still feel a sort of teenage excitement upon finding something new to listen to. Yesterday, by way of the often convoluted path that I take through the tangled web of the Net, I discovered In Gowan Ring, a one-man acoustic group (can one man be a group?) from either the US or Canada. He's been on heavy rotation by way of You Tube since then. Check him out if you like your music folky.
The slightly otherworldly sound of In Gowan Ring has put me in mind of fairytales and in particular one of my favourite fairytale illustrators, Ivan Bilibin (Russian, 19th-20th centuries). Beautiful, surreal and slightly sinister. Like all good folk stories and fairytales.
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