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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 Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.