Зануда 3x
A Зануда is someone who’s a downer or a bore. The rapper Зануда (Zanuda) was born (in 1981) as David Nuriyev (Давид Нуриев) in Baku (Azerbaijan), but moved to Moscow at age nine. He was part of Centr and also goes by Птаха (Ptaha).
Папиросы (2010): Cigarettes
A папироса is a cigarette. Папиросы is the plural form (also the title of the album) and, according to the lyrics, it’s the solution to all вопросы (questions). The lyrics video shows some unique tobacco products; the clip itself is smoke-free.
Талая Вода (2013): Meltwater
Featuring Ангелина Рай ( Angelina Ray). The lyrics (explicit content) might not appeal to everyone, but that’s part of the rap game. Я остался живой: I stayed alive; потому что любимчик у Бога: because I’m God’s favorite.
Фарфор (2016): Porcelain
Porcelain appears only at 1:21 in когда ливень стучал по фарфору на моей крыше = when the rain was pounding on the porcelain roof. The closing words are cool (at 2:34): Месть – холодное блюдо = revenge is a dish best served cold. Lyrics here.
More on Wikipedia, Facebook, Twitter, and VK.
Reading material: Разница между папиросами и сигаретами (the difference between papirosi and cigarettes) on TheDifference.ru.
Most of the music here is also in an
R1 playlist on YouTube (from recent to old).
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Anyone who wants to present Russian music cannot ignore Zemfira. Popular and mainstream – millions of records sold – but also distinctly idiosyncratic. The music is usually accessible (we categorize it under Pop), but the attitude is rock.
Raw Anti-Putin punk from
Nizhny Novgorod /
Нижний Новгород. Loosely based on ‘Maggie’ by The Exploited.
From the green city of
Zelenograd /
Зеленоград. Dreamy indie-folk with a melancholic undertone. Created by
Mikhail Rodionov (1992).
The alarm blares (Ревёт тревога), the road awaits (ждёт дорога). They are many (Их немало), we are few (нас немного). We are in an unjust world (Мы в несправедливом мире) tin wolves in the shooting range (Жестяные волки в тире).
The word offret is Swedish and means ‘sacrifice’; the band Offret is Russian and makes heavy music. The link between the word and the band: a
1986 film in Swedish by the Russian Andrei Tarkovsky.
A band from Saint Petersburg that makes a kind of post-punk/indie-pop. Not for long yet, so not much material yet. However, they already have a few very successful tracks with original music videos. До свиданья, дорогая is the
Russian title for the film
The Goodbye Girl (1977), but it has nothing to do with it.
