Мельница (Melnitsa, meaning "mill") is a folk rock band from Moscow, Russia… Read Full Bio ↴Мельница (Melnitsa, meaning "mill") is a folk rock band from Moscow, Russia, formed in 1999 by Natalia "Hellawes" O'Shea and Alexey "Chus" Sapkov around the remnants of a local folk band called Till Eulenspiegel.
The band fuses Russian, Irish and other North European folk influences with pop/rock sounds. Natalia "Hellawes" O'Shea, the lead singer and primary songwriter, is an academic and a specialist in medieval European languages and cultures by day. Her expertise lends the typically complex fantasy-laden lyrics a degree of authenticity.
For the first several years the band had worked the club and festival circuit, earned a good cult status in the folk-n-fantasy teenage sub-culture and released an acoustic album Doroga Sna (Дорога Сна, The Road of Dream) featuring the underground hit Gorets (Горец, Highlander) set to the Russian translation of Robert Burns' Highland Harry Back Again.
Luck struck in 2005, when the lead single Nochnaya Kobyla (Ночная Кобыла, Night mare) off their second, more pop-infused album Pereval (Перевал, Mountain Pass) had been sneaked into rotation on Nashe Radio (the name and lyrics of the song are a complex allusion to Mara, a Norse mythical entity that caused nightmares). A grass-roots chart effort by fans propelled the song to #1 position in the "Best Of Year" chart, and the band to the small arena circuit (sparsely populated in Russia).
Current line-up:
Natalia "Hellawes" O'Shea - vocals
Alexey "Chus" Sapkov - guitar, vocals
Sergey Zaslavsky - flute
Alexey Orlov - cello
Alexey Kozhanov - bass
Dmitry Frolov - drums
Former members:
Alevtina Leontyeva - vocals
Alexander "Grendel" Stepanov - guitar
Natalia Filatova - flute
Natalia Kotlova - cello
Evgeny Chesalov - bass
Alexander Leer - drums
Inessa Klubochkina - violin
The band fuses Russian, Irish and other North European folk influences with pop/rock sounds. Natalia "Hellawes" O'Shea, the lead singer and primary songwriter, is an academic and a specialist in medieval European languages and cultures by day. Her expertise lends the typically complex fantasy-laden lyrics a degree of authenticity.
For the first several years the band had worked the club and festival circuit, earned a good cult status in the folk-n-fantasy teenage sub-culture and released an acoustic album Doroga Sna (Дорога Сна, The Road of Dream) featuring the underground hit Gorets (Горец, Highlander) set to the Russian translation of Robert Burns' Highland Harry Back Again.
Luck struck in 2005, when the lead single Nochnaya Kobyla (Ночная Кобыла, Night mare) off their second, more pop-infused album Pereval (Перевал, Mountain Pass) had been sneaked into rotation on Nashe Radio (the name and lyrics of the song are a complex allusion to Mara, a Norse mythical entity that caused nightmares). A grass-roots chart effort by fans propelled the song to #1 position in the "Best Of Year" chart, and the band to the small arena circuit (sparsely populated in Russia).
Current line-up:
Natalia "Hellawes" O'Shea - vocals
Alexey "Chus" Sapkov - guitar, vocals
Sergey Zaslavsky - flute
Alexey Orlov - cello
Alexey Kozhanov - bass
Dmitry Frolov - drums
Former members:
Alevtina Leontyeva - vocals
Alexander "Grendel" Stepanov - guitar
Natalia Filatova - flute
Natalia Kotlova - cello
Evgeny Chesalov - bass
Alexander Leer - drums
Inessa Klubochkina - violin
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Мельница Lyrics
А если бы он — А если бы он вернулся опять, Что ему я сказать…
Ведьма Как у ведьмы четыре крыла, платье до пола, ой, до…
Ветер Как ко мне посватался ветер, Бился в окна, в резные ставни.…
Волкодав Почувствуешь в воздухе Нездешние отзвуки, Увидишь сквозь м…
Далеко Обернули жемчужины шею В три ряда, в три ряда. Говорил — «…
Княже Долго слушала молитвы горьких трав, Долго плакала, свивала …
Кувшин …И который день я хожу пустая, Разевая рот, Жду, когда мен…
Океан У ладьи моей на мачтах белы и багряны паруса, А с…
Опасное лето Как клинки, режут небо крылья, Улетать — только если к морю…
Ушба Солнце, скажи, зачем мне свет — ушел мой милый вчера. Молчи…
Шаман Я кривой иглою шкуры штопала, Солнце над озером Плавало в …
Шелкопряд Послушай, похоже, опять нашла меня беда, Я её отвести не су…