Truckdrivers – Sparks Fly
The sparks fly in Искры летят от огня (2017) by Truckdrivers. Искры means sparks, летят means fly, and от огня means from the fire. It nicely rhymes with мы покидаем дома (we leave home) and так умирает зима (so winter dies).
It also rhymes with жизнью пахнет земля (the earth smells of life) and так наступает весна (so spring begins).
Punk rock from the Urals – with fire in the music, and in the video, besides fire, there’s also snow.
Also featured on the compilation Russian Indie. Punk (Spotify).
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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.
