https://youtu.be/iOChVZlKiK0
the track is already out in my region! itβs amazing. wow iβm so in love. i first saw martin play at sziget in 2015. it was one of the best sets ever. he opened with dragon which was his first collab with m&s. 6 years and 7 collab later, these guys never miss with their staple progressive house sound. this track is so lovely and it has so much energy and emotion. outdone yourselves once again boys.
I saw them posting the song on their story. So ye, just wondering.....
SadkoΒ was directed by Aleksandr Ptushko in 1953. It was an adaptation of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakovβs opera,Β SadkoΒ which in turn was based on even older Russian mythology. The story itself is unremarkable, a typical heroβs journey with swords, magic, and monsters but visuallyΒ SadkoΒ is anything but typical.
In Russian art, whether it is a film likeΒ Ivan The Terrible, or an opera likeΒ Boris Godunov, or a Russian Orthodox Icon painting there is a tradition of using tableaux. Actors are assembled in an ornate and carefully composed images, the camera, as well as the actors, stay relatively still, and then the lines are recited or the arias sung in a mostly motionless vignette. WatchingΒ SadkoΒ is like watching a series of rich and dramatic paintings one after the other.
As a filmmaker, Aleksandr Ptushko specialized in fanciful films and special effects. His career began in 1935 with a Soviet version of Gulliverβs Travels and stretched all the way to 1972 with his last filmΒ Ruslan and Ludmila.
American B-movie impresario, Roger Corman, boughtΒ SadkoΒ and had it chopped up and reworked for sale in America. The chopping was done by none other than a young Francis Ford Coppola. Mostly he was tasked with editing out the songs, but Corman did also change the names in the credits to sound more American. They marketed it asΒ The Magic Voyage of Sinbad.Β Corman released it in 1963, 16 years after the 1947 version starring Douglass Fairbanks, and 10 years before the 1973 version made famous by Harryhausenβs incomparable stop motion monsters.
Even with Corman hacking it into pieces, and with Ptushko forcefully extruding it through a Stalinist mold,Β SadkoΒ remains visually stunning, so I will step aside and simply provide some film stills so you can see for yourself.
https://36toesproductions.medium.com/sadko-a-soviet-feast-for-the-eyes-330d0dde6f92
