Nikita Kobrin

My greatest passion is music. I'm into it from my childhood. Started years ago today my collection comprises thousands of vinyl records and CD's.

I was lucky enough to be engaged into music not just as a hobbyist but also professionally as it always was very interesting for me.

As a music columnist I contributed to several newspapers and magazines. In 1989 in Ukraine where lived at that time I established my own newspaper. It was the very first periodical dedicated to non-academical music in that country.

After moving to Lithuania I worked as a Press Agent for Zona Records (the first independent record company in the territory of the former USSR) and later spent several years working as a DJ and Programme Director for two radio stations.

Now for many years already I am a full-time translator again but my passion for music is still with me. Sometimes when I visit local Russian bookstores it becomes a real pain for me: when I see all those wonderful books on The Beatles, Presley, Pink Floyd I do envy the guys who translate them... They are so lucky to get such interesting jobs that almost never come my way today. This is just the field I'd like to work in and I know that I am highly competent in it: it's hard to find an English to Russian translator in the field of jazz and rock music that would be better than I am but alas... they ask me to translate anything but not the things I'm so eager to work on... Life's a bitch!

Nikita's JUKEBOX:

I'm not gonna load the jukebox with beloved Fab Four, Armstrong, Tull, Floyd, Cohen, Purple, Fitzgerald and alike: everybody knows them. We'd rather tickle here the dark, less known side of ~~the moon~~ music...

Play the records and let me know what you think. You can do it HERE.

I will try to load new records regularly at least once a week. Hope you will enjoy my little jukebox...

Boris Grebenshchikov & Aquarium (Russia | Rock) :: WEB
Carpenter's Son from Psi
Recommended albums: Akustika (1982) ■■■■□ | Russian Album (1991) ■■■□□ | Songs by Alexander Vertinskii (BG solo, 1994) ■■■■□ | Navigator (1996) ■■■■□

Cesaria Evora (Cape Verde | World: Morna, Fado) :: WEB

Un pincelada from Ragamar
Recommended albums: Voz D'amor (2003) ■■■■□ | Ragamar (2006) ■■■■□

Chumbawamba (Anarchist Indie Rock) :: WEB

Bella ciao from Singsong and a Scrap
Recommended album: Singsong and a Scrap (2006)

Czeslaw Niemen (Poland | Rock) :: WEB
Dziwny jest ten swiat from Dziwny jest ten swiat

Recommended albums: Enigmatic (1969) ■■■■□ | Niemen Enigmatic (1971) ■■■■■ | N.AE. (aka Niemen/Aerolit, 1975) ■■■■□

Czerwone Gitary (Poland | Rock) :: WEB
Plona gory, plona lasy | Wschod slonca w stadninie koni | Mam dobry dzien

Recommended album: Nie spoczniemy (Zlota kolekcja, 2005) ■■■■■

Garik Sukachev (Russia | Chanson, Rock) :: WEB

Zero Point from Baryshnya & Drakon

Goran Bregovic (Serbia, Poland | World) :: WEB
Prawy do lewego from Kayah & Bregovic
Recommended albums: Kayah & Bregovic (1999) ■■■■■ | Songbook (200) ■■■■□ | Thessaloniki Giannena Me Dio Papoutsia Panina (with George Dalaras, 2001) ■■■■□

Hazmat Modine (USA | Blues, Folk, Swing, etc.) :: WEB
Bahamut from Bahamut

Kolumbus Kris (Estonia | Blues Rock) :: WEB

If You Don't Like ... from If You Don't Like ...

Loyko (Russia | World: Gypsy Folk) :: WEB
Lautary from Road Of The Gypsies

Noir Desir (France | Alternative Rock) :: WEB

Le vent nous portera from Des Visages des Figures

Olga Arefieva & Kovcheg (Russia | Reggae, Blues, Rock, Neo Folk) :: WEB
Winter's Coming from Kon-Tiki | Where To Go? from Scherzo-girl | Hey, Little Apple from Krutitsya-vertitsya

Omega (Hungary | Psychedelic/Prog/Space Rock) :: WEB

Nem tudom a neved from Omega 6: Nem tudom a neved

Pavel Kashin (Russia | Chanson, Rock) :: WEB

"From Nowhere to Nowhere" from Flaming Messenger
Recommended albums: Down by the Magic River (1993) ■■■■□ | Flaming Messenger (2002) ■■■■□ | Good Bye, Time (2003) ■■■■□

Rada & Ternovnik - As Darkness Fell, They Went Away

Rada & Ternovnik (Russia | Prog Rock, Neo Folk) :: WEB

When Time Comes (ethnic) | As Darkness Fell, They Went Away from Salamandra

Raz Dwa Trzy (Poland | Acoustic Rock, Chanson)
Czarna Jnez from Niecud (1999)

Recommended album: Niecud (1999)

The Swingle Singers - Fugue from Sonata no. 37 by W. A. Mozart

The Swingle Singers (France, now UK | Jazz, Scat, Classical) :: WEB

Fugue from Sonata no. 37 by W. A. Mozart from Anyone for Bach, Mozart, Handel, Vivaldi?

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Nikita Kobrin

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