A tribute performance for the work of Bulat, here playing perhaps his famous song, Your Excellency Lady Luck featrued in the classic Russian film White Sun of the Desert. Which is ritualy watched by outgoing cosmonauts.
Bulat Okudzhava was one of the founders of the Russian genre called "author's song". He was the author of about 200 songs, set to his own poetry. His songs are a mixture of Russian poetic and folksong traditions and the French chansonnier style represented by such contemporaries of Okudzhava as Georges Brassens. Though his songs were never overtly political (in contrast to those of some of his fellow "bards"), the freshness and independence of Okudzhava's artistic voice presented a subtle challenge to Soviet cultural authorities, who were thus hesitant for many years to give official sanction to Okudzhava as a singer-songwriter.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulat_Okudzhava
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