телеэкран (Teleekran) 4x
Trio from Saint Petersburg, active since 2017. ‘Noisepop/postpunk/lo-fi/rock/indie/pop/outsider music’ ( VK), and it’s just really good. See Kartaslov for the meaning of the word «телеэкран», which tells you that a tele-ekran is a TV screen.
Капитан Радар (2020)
From the Реактор EP (2020). Also featuring Плохо скрытый ужас and На радарах, which also has a live version. Lyrics available on the Bandcamp track page and here.
In cryogenic sleep, birthdays pass by
And films lose their meaning.
A thousand years – it’s just a thousand years.
He’ll wake you up, he’ll come.
Captain Radar stands at your door,
And you shake his hand for the first time.
A paper kite, healing St. John’s wort,
And a few rusty nails.
The constellation of Clay – it’s just the constellation of Clay.
It’s just a way to get back home.
Тысяча дешёвых зажигалок (2019)
A thousand cheap lighters. From the Взрыв в обратной перемотке EP (2019). Acoustic version by Timur Gandaev (2019), who also shows how it’s done here.
Lyrics not yet found online.
Гражданская оборона
From their debut album Комната смерти (2017).
Live and after live
Check out телеэкран live at Efir (2020, 67 mins), or a shorter and better performance at Цех live (2020, 10 mins). There’s also an after live (5 mins).
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Meet “телеэкран” – a noisepop band from St. Petersburg that’s all about cyberpunk and the local music scene (Sobaka.ru, 2020).
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Apple Music,
Last.fm,
Spotify.
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VK.
Most of the music here is also available in an
R1 playlist on YouTube (from recent to old).
Best Russian Music in the
Лучшая русская музыка.
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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.
