Каспийский Груз 3x
Каспийский = Caspian; Груз = cargo or load, also meaning goods or a burden. Каспийский Груз comes from Azerbaijan (which borders the Caspian Sea) but sings in Russian, and that’s all that matters.
Табор уходит в небо (The Caravan Ascends to Heaven, 2015)
Singing bids him farewell.
Я бы уехал (I Would Leave, 2017)
For those who can handle fighting (there’s also a version with just cars). Text at the bottom right: Бог спасет, братва поможет – God saves, the brothers help. Those in the ring may see it differently.
Это жизнь (This is Life, 2017)
Starring a car that overtakes everyone and speeds through, with chilling scenes that sometimes take courage just to watch.*
Bonus (also quite good): Она плохая – She is Bad.
*) The same footage can be seen in
Дым мой круговорт by StaFFорд63, in
Оп, Мусорок by Литвиненко, and in many other video clips. The man behind the wheel is Георгий Тевзадзе (Giorgi Tevzadze, 1987) from Georgia. He passed away in 2013, at just 26 years old – in a car, as a passenger.
More in
Best Of Giorgi Tevzadze / Лучшее Георгия Тевзадзе (2013, 7 min),
Drift King-Street Racing (2013, 13 min), and
Tribute to the legendary Giorgi Tevzadze (2013, 6 min). Also see this
biography (2019).
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Music
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.
