Psycho-Folk

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Psycho-Folk

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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.

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.

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

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?

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Accordion Punk - the new sound of russian folk

Accordion Punk - The New sound of Russian Folk

RUSSIA

In Russia, we like squeezing our balls in search of all kind of trends – Brooklyn anti-folk, Canadian post-rock, Islandic schizo-pop etc. However, what we have lying under our own feet can hardly be categorised, excluding those rusty times of Leningrad rock-club and recent fashion of hoody and playing guitar on the backstage of central streets. There are no trends. But what is happening here truly amazing. A big scene of outsiders came from the dark woods and no-go forests - from the most alienated towns of our vast country. In Saint Petersburg – its Golubi and Kashevary [Pigeons and Porridge Cooks], Obshezhitie [Common Living] in Moscow, S Kolenyami kak u Ptits [With the Knees Like the Birds Have] – in Smolensk, in Belorussia its Kassiopeya, and totally separate movement in Karelia.

These are rather powerful protuberances, and few people have a clue what they are flashing for, and it is absolutely impossible to predict the place of the new explosion – but would be wrong to ignore them. They compose whole lots of things – 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.

'Old Man'

Sergei Starostin - vocals, gusli
Andrei Kotov - vocals, gusli
Leonid Fyodorov - guitar, vocals
Volkov - double-bass

"Soul-useful songs for every day", Central House of Artists, Moscow, 2009