Aleksandr Bashlachev Essentials

Aleksandr Bashlachev's short-lived career spawned a few dozen songs, with plenty to discover beyond his best-known moments. The moving "For the Life of Poets" offers acute insight into an artist whose voice often resembles a passionate, raspy-voiced mutter. The rhythmic "Griboedov Waltz" sounds deceptively buoyant when compared to "When We Are Together", a soft-spoken saga of paradoxical romanticism.