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Psycho-Folk

Atonal and arrhythmic noise experiments, beautiful instrumental electronics mixed with all kind of samples, from Stravinsky to some kind of French rap, ethnographic folklore, village reggae and covers of Viktor Tsoy and Bob Marley, performed in the style of a church choir. Here come love songs and sincere spiritual folk, finished with Orthodox rap, ironic but simultaneously very serious, funny from the first listen, but terribly powerful in its essence.

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Staraya Derevnya

I'd like to believe that slightly demented piano lines and click-clack bongo percussion and earnest, lo-fi vocals and recordings still have their roots in trad-Russian folk ballads of the peasants that still inhabit the Urals despite the strife and the r

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The gigs of the duo in Europe and in Russia were always met by public with a confusion and applauses, especially if there was any public on the concerts.

SYBARITES

Tubbi-drums, harmonica, vocals; Stereo-drums, guitars, bass, vocals, iron things, vacuum cleaner, trumpets and horns; Mono – guitars, bass, voice, percussions, synthesizer, trumpets and horns. What can the music be?

GOLUBI I BEZUMNYE KASHEVARY

The happy feeling of compassion to the chaos, co-participation in debauch take place on the stage and in the minds of the band members.

Russia

Russia is not only the country of Lenin, Gagarin, T-34 and AK-47, there is much more going on there than oil-pumping and a search for mysterious bears foreign tourists claim to walk around the streets, what? - have a listen....

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THE ZVERSTVO

"I love demented rock music and it doesn't get much more demented than The Zverstvo. Loud, abrasive and deliciously funny, the vocalist of this Russian avant-rock ensemble screams its lyrics over the top of pounding drums, guitar, and a saxophonist ... "

N.O.M

Formed 1987. Probably the best rock band to continue the tradition of Russian surrealism. NOM's music is a fascinating combination of traditional Russian melodies, rock, pop, progressive rock and even opera.

Ayktsyon

Like many other bands, Auktsyin also was infected with punk, but unlike the others, got 'healed' in a proper way - expanding its musical and poetic language to somewhere, few of us ever been before.

URATSAKIDOGI

'Uratsakidogi is a state of comprehension of different circumstances in life, projected onto what other people call 'music'' – Egor Gogenator - the leader of the band responds laconically to a question about the band's name.

Igray, Garmon'!

"I bought a guitar and started to play, told Misha to buy bass ... Then Misha called one day and said: you know, fuck the bass, I've got accordion, let me play it! We tried - it all went much better than we expected ... "

From 2004 till 2006 Translit was a collaboration of Andrey Smurov (potential oligarch and in the past - organiser of exhibitions and other culturally-explosive events) and Gleb Schennikov (like any creative personality – difficult to define). Both – Russians living in Amsterdam. Schennikov was playing guitar, Smurov was writing songs and tried to sing them, awfully and passionately. The gigs of the duo in Europe and in Russia were always met by public with a confusion and applauses, especially if there was any public on the concerts.

Trasnlit recorded two albums – 'Literali' (2005) and 'Berega' (2006) released by 'Ulitka Records' of Leonid Fyodorov. By 2006 Schennikov got bored with these music exercises and his move to Saint Petersburg in 2007 automatically excluded him from the group. Smurov together with his friend Artut Molev meanwhile was writing songs for the album of Fyodorov and Volkov Krasnota (2006). The two participated in the extended release of Auktsyon's 'Devushki Poyut' and live album of Translil 'Vafrel’/Okean Klyaks'. Soon, however, Smurov got to know London-based sound engineer Gosha Hnyu, who organised an artistic expedition to Haifa where along with other Russian musicians they recorded what would become the third, most complete, live and aggressive album. 'Tiho' is released under the management of Leonid Fyodorov at 'Ulitka' in April 2009 and was supported by a tour in Russia and Israel.

By now the band consists of:

Andrey Smurov – vocals

Gosha Hnyu – sound, percussion

Igor Kungurov –guitar

Urik Borodin – violin

Mikhail Mikhalkin – bass

Sergey Mednikov – drums

In Moscow the band is joined by Sergey Letov, famous Russian avant-garde saxophonist and the brother of Egor Letov – the leader of probably the most famous Russian punk-bands Grazhndanskaya Oborona.