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Svetlana Shmulyian

C. Michael Bailey's Best Releases of 2020

by C. Michael Bailey
December 16, 2020

We are experiencing an existential fold in history, one where we do not even realize its gravity because it has been so cheapened by ourselves. The only thing that rises above all of this is art, and in particular, music. It is but grace that these artists provided us a gift we could never possibly warrant. ...

Svetlana Shmulyian: Night at the Movies

by C. Michael Bailey
October 4, 2020

Svetlana Shmulyian is a gift that keeps on giving. The Russian-American emigre made her recording debut with Night at the Speakeasy (AO2 Records, 2016), where she infused the Great American Songbook's early canon with an Eastern essence of determination and intelligence. The singer followed that with her survey of film music Night at the Movies (Starr ...

Svetlana Shmulyian: Night at the Movies

by C. Michael Bailey
May 18, 2020

Russian-American singer Svetlana Shmulyian has blended an East Europe/Russia combination of elegant determination and delicate grit into the American Songbook on her debut recording Night at the Speakeasy (AO2 Records, 2016), and then film music on Night at the Movies (Starr Records, 2020). The artist surprised listeners by dropping an outtake from Night at the Movies, ...

Svetlana: Night at the Movies

by C. Michael Bailey
January 10, 2020

Russian-American singer-composer Svetlana (she has a last name, Schmulyian, but prefers the monomoniker) is onto something. Her debut recording, Night at the Speakeasy (OA2 Records, 2016) with her self-appointed Delancey Five, was a structured affair which concentrated on the music of the “Jazz Age" (save for the Beach Boys' “God Only Knows") performed in a Jazz ...

Night at the Movies

By Svetlana Shmulyian

Label: Starr Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Moonlight; Sooner or Later; Cheek to Cheek; Pure Imagination; Moon River; Happy; When You Wish Upon a Star; Watch What Happens; Remember Me; No One’s Home; Smile; It Might Be You; Almost There; Over the Rainbow.