Russian Music

[SteK]

There's a lot of good stuff, Zemfira being one of my faves, one of her's give it chance, has tits in it, extreme use of mine chords...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPP45mzMe0s

Splin, poppy, tits in this too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6b-Bxpb4gjY

And Kino, lead singer Viktor Tsoi, half Russian, half Korean is generally regarded as the Soviet Lennon, killed in car crash, have a look and decide, his classic song Kukushka (Cuckoo) plonked in a film a bit overdone but quite effective in order to overcome that fact it's sung not in English.....

From a recent Russian film about a famous in Russia female sniper, the Battle for Sevastapol...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuPX8mjeb-E

[BlodwynPig]

[Pingers]

^ what the Devil is going on there?

[chveik]

Sergey Kuryokhin - Sparrow Oratorium

Yanka Dyagileva - Anhedonia

Tyva Kyzy - Aylanmaa Damyran

[BlodwynPig]

Sad story about Dyagileva. In fact sad stories about all the Soviet singers i know about

Big fan of Ole Lukkøye, probably the best known "prog" band

https://youtu.be/G4TRYW3BcsY

[the]

Masta B.K. - Party Beat Triatlon

From the Russian big beat revival of 2012

[SteK]

Theres a great movie out about Kino/Tsoi early days called 'Leto' (summer) worth a watch...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8ftavdKq_s

[idunnosomename]

i guess this isnt the place for me to bitch about how much tchaikovsky, shostakovich, mussorgsky, rimsky-korsakov, scriabin, rachmaninoff, stravinsky, prokofiev et al get programmed in English symphony orchestra repertoires no doubt due to oligarch interests

i mean i like them, but will you play any English composers other than Vaughan Williams and fucking Elgar? Oh like the one Walton Symphony and Belshazzar's Feast, and Bax Tintagel if we're fucking lucky

[Sin Agog]

One of the most dense conversationalists I know (as in he can't drop a sentence without it being a fractal diamond littered with unexpected references and wordplay) is in a rather crazy Plunderphonics/Noise Rock/Very Occasionally Semi-Melodic band from Saint Petersburg called Won James Won.  Their music sounds a bit like falling asleep in front of the radio while running a fever of 45 degrees.



Here's a (to me) totally mesmerising half-hour symphony of sirens and factory sounds and choirs and cannonades and whatnot composed in 1922: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Kq_7w9RHvpQ


And The Red Army Choir compilation is one of my favourites.  Their most famous track is prolly Kalinka, but the whole thing is tight.  Once left it blasting on football season when I went on holiday after being fucked off by seeing so many England flags raised aloft outside my neighbours' gaffs.

And a fucking abrasive masterpiece choon by Egor Letov I uploaded to youtube to win an argument about something or other I forget now.  Stop the Rolling Stones: https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=em-comments&v=nd6U26XSdG0&lc=z22gxzobdka1wxsge04t1aokgpry2euamoumdo0yd0jqrk0h00410
He's got so much fucking stuff- dozens and dozens of albums in various incarnations- but check out his Egor & the Fuck Ups albums for peak [Y]egor.

Plus an old episode of a podcast I did on throat singing which no doubt has tons of Russkis.  I taught myself a sort of flaky half-throat singing to get into the spirit of things for the intro.  Later got an email from a woman from Inner Mongolia saying it was a lily-livered bastardisation of the artform and I should be ashamed but good show ta.  https://archive.org/details/74Simon-ThroatSinging

[bgmnts]

Tetris!

https://youtu.be/_zqqYyShqwc

[JesusAndYourBush]

I like Janna Aguzarova.  To say she's eccentric would be an understatement.  She's been compared to Lady Gaga, but solely because of her weird outfits, nothing to do with the music.  When she was a singer in the band Bravo (also worth checking out), when the band first started c.1983 they had to do gigs in kindof semi-secret venues and one of their earliest gigs was raided by the police and because she had a fake passport she spent a year in the gulag.  She was only with Bravo a few years (although they kept on good terms and she's done various reunions with them) which isn't surprising as in the earliest stuff you can hear that they want to play some type of traditional Rock N Roll whereas she's obviously influenced by punk and early Nina Hagen in particular and she's too far out for them.

Fun fact:  A clip from one of my youtube videos of her (taped off an old Channel 4 documentary) was included in a documentary about her on Russian TV.

Live (Audio only. Sometime around Dec'83 to March'84. Starts with a cover of One Step Beyond which none of the Russian sites have ever identified, merely listing it as "Instrumental".)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN_T4bmxRKg

Muzhchini V Stoy Zhizni (on a tv show, 1998)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNiFfEzThRY

Okrasilsya Mesyats Bagryantsem (tv show, New Years Eve 2009-2010. It's a cover of a very old song.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YENmcW0YxKg

[Pearly-Dewdrops Drops]

Is this an appropriate thread to confess that as I was a fan of the tATu version of "How Soon Is Now?" before I had ever even heard the original?

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SCRIABIN

[sevendaughters]

don't have an extensive knowledge of Russian contemporary music. I used to do this blog where I reviewed a different Bandcamp release from Europe every day and found that Russians were fond of lo-fi guitar rock, metal, dodgy politics hardcore, and harsh noise. I did find a couple of interesting things though.

Shortparis - these guys have gone huge now, supporting Depeche Mode and been playing over here on festivals last year. They're not a million miles away but with a provocative performance art bent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUdteCBRX9c

Fanny Kaplan - all-girl no wave-ish group with keys/bass/drums. the bridge feels like time going backward and the bass sound is cruel. They toured Europe a couple of years ago, I tried to move heaven and earth to see them but failed. They've done nothing since.
https://nofannykaplan.bandcamp.com/track/vsjo-dozvoleno-ili-net

Kot Kot / Lena Filatova - artist from up near the Finnish border who does Múm-esque degraded electronica with found sound and field recordings. This and her album Na Kochke have a childhood dreamlike quality that I find pretty appealing.
https://kotkotsings.bandcamp.com/album/caa-30-cyland-audio-archive-2017

[jobotic]

I remember this appearing on a programme about Soviet underground music that was on when I was a teenager.

Not got any sound at the moment so can't tell if it's any good, although i was impressed at the time.

Experimentator

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWNtRyKIKfo

[Dewt]

Highly recommend this Tim Key BBC Four special about Vyacheslav Mescherin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uE_kv9Y408

[Norton Canes]

I like me some Shortparis or some Kedr Livanskiy

[BlodwynPig]

I'd be happy to hear some opinions about this. For me, he should be amongst the timeless greats - his music spanning genres and time majestically. Russian and native Russian folk, psychedelic, electro-pop, funk, plaintive chanson...it's all there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=kcygWVc7pz8&feature=emb_logo

His other stuff is different and just as good "I Will Take You to the Tundra", for example.

And here he is in an earlier live performance. Fuck the Beatles, indeed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXpgjZ2GW-Y

[chveik]

throat singing madness + accordion

Oidupaa Vladimir Oiun - Divine Music From A Jail

[Sin Agog]

throat singing madness + accordion

Oidupaa Vladimir Oiun - Divine Music From A Jail

Has anyone clarified that dude's story?  I haven't updated myself on his bio lately, but I remember there was some mythologising going around.  Think it might be true that he was in jail for years (purportedly 30), but whether he was a child abuser and murderer or just a patsy for the Soviet state I have no idea.  What I do know is his music is some fucking wrenching stuff.

[SteK]

We saw some Throat Singers from Tuva at the Sugar Club in Dublin.

There's this hip-hop guy called Delfin (Dolphin) I hate hip-hop but he did a few bangers, my favourites being 'Nadezhda' (means 'Hope' and is a girl's name) and one called 'Vesna' (Spring) sung over a video of the opening celebrations on the 1980 Moscow Olympics - great toon, weeping bear and the Soviet Cosmonauts in space on the big screen....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P47V4SASwGc&t=34s

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NIKOLAI MYASKOVSKY

[DoesNotFollow]

I'd like to throw in SKAFANDR from St. Petersburg, with their self-proclaimed 'metal dub soundsystem'. A little chilled, a little trippy, a little heavy sometimes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Auz9ZJNeh1s&list=PL68Qz-W2Aq6NmvrYQMI_VHjW7GdVROXvB

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ALFRED SCHNITTKE

[Sin Agog]

ALFRED SCHNITTKE

His Choir Concerto which he composed near the end of his life is prolly in my top ten albums.  Although, admittedly, my top ten albums list is over a thousand strong.

(Polyansky's Russian State Symphonic performance, that is.  This one: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2GBwgNB0XVU)

[New folder]

Can't say I listen to a lot of Russian music, but this melancholic song by Pavel Luspekayev from a soviet movie called "White Sun of the Desert" stuck with me ever since I was little: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id9iif6PK0w

I really liked Zemfira as a young girl, still living in Russia. Quite surprising to see her mentioned here though.

[SteK]

Can't say I listen to a lot of Russian music, but this melancholic song by Pavel Luspekayev from a soviet movie called "White Sun of the Desert" stuck with me ever since I was little: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id9iif6PK0w

I really liked Zemfira as a young girl, still living in Russia. Quite surprising to see her mentioned here though.

That was me, went to Russia 2000 or so, Web Girl was her hit then,  SPID, and PMML where in the video I think she announced her lesbianism, watch it!

She was beautiful then, now she looks like a political prisoner, short hair and stark cheeks, much like the woman who was in Nichiye Sniperiy or whatever it was! Ostanovky tramvyem!
 

[New folder]

That was me, went to Russia 2000 or so, Web Girl was her hit then,  SPID, and PMML where in the video I think she announced her lesbianism, watch it!

She was beautiful then, now she looks like a political prisoner, short hair and stark cheeks, much like the woman who was in Nichiye Sniperiy or whatever it was! Ostanovky tramvyem!

Gave her a listen for the first time in over ten years -- very nostalgic. It's surprising how many songs I still remember so well.  Not something I'd listen to these days though to be honest.

[BlodwynPig]

Soviet Fusion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnXTNw6Xw1w

[rack and peanut]

Arkona!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkona_(band)