seagull song

The seagull song from У самого синего моря (“By the Bluest of Seas,” Boris Barnet, USSR, 1936). Although this recording sounds like it ends abruptly, this is, in fact, the entire song as it is heard in the film.


This essay was first published on the blog Poemas del río Wang as part of the group post Together in the Crimea.

Three more filecasts, all field recordings, came from the source material collected during this journey:

56606 sound lens
56654 khersones
56658 beginning