Казускома 4x
Good music in the spectrum where Казускома (Kazuscoma) operates is not easy to find in Russian. This trio from Moscow is a discovery worth sharing with great pleasure. Call it hard rock, blues rock, seventies, or stoner—this is rock that doesn’t care about names. Denim jackets and long hair, Flying V (or Gibson SG) guitars, and Marshall amps make the party complete.
The selection was heavily influenced by what could be embedded. As a result, the regrettable omission here includes Я не могу (I Can’t, 2019), Твой рот (Your Mouth, 2018), and Электрический Волк (Electric Wolf, 2018).
These ones could be included and they are not bad either.
Быть как ты (To Be Like You, 2020)
Я хочу тебя сейчас (I Want You Now, live 2016)
Acoustic and as a duo at Monoleak Studio (2018).
More and longer live performances in Казускома живьём (S Reviews, 2020, 17 m).
Хаски and Тараканы!
Two connections to other artists. Вокруг так много всего (2018) is a collaboration with rapper Хаски (Husky). See also live in Moscow (2019).
Спасибо и до свидания is a cover of Тараканы! ( Tarakany), from Улица Свободных (Тараканы! Part 1) released in 2018. The original is here.
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Portrait/interview
- Правда или действие с группой «Казускома» (Сторона, 2019, 23 m)
- Артем Ляховский (КАЗУСКОМА) – День с Артёмом / Интервью (Тыслышал, 2017, 65 m)
- Поговорим про | Казускома – Рок-н-ролл, язык, будущее (Хрущёвка, 2016, 12 m)
Read: Группа «Казускома» или почему ретросексуалы все ещё в моде (miptstream.ru, 2019) and «Казускома» о скотах, котиках и тяжелом роке (daily.afisha.ru, 2016).
More on VK, music on Soundcloud, and Spotify.
Most of the music here is also in an
R1 playlist on YouTube (from recent to old).
Best Russian Music in the
Лучшая русская музыка.
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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.
