DenDerty (Денис Бурашников) 3x
Den from Denis, last name Burasnikov, and this Денис Бурашников (1988) does his thing as DenDerty. From Yoshkar-Ola (= Йошкар-Ола), a place you’ve probably never heard of, just like DenDerty. But hear this (and experience the opener).
Тотальное Самоубийство (Total Suicide, 2015)
A monologue fragment from the post-nuclear science fiction film Письма мёртвого человека (Dead Man’s Letters, 1986). See Wikipedia English or Russian, watch on Ivi.tv or Culture.ru (also on YouTube after logging in).
Сейчас я уйду в свою комнату и для меня всё кончится. В конце концов, мы взрослые люди и смерть не так уж страшна. Когда погибло всё.
Other versions by
Aleksandr Krivtsov (2020) and (at your own risk)
Oblachnii boy (2018).
See (with DenDerty himself)
Watching the track project “Total Suicide” (2020, 16 min). From
Тотальное Самоубийство (2015).
Грустно (2019)
Каждый момент я делаю хуже
Каждый год все туже мой ошейник
Грустно, пиздец, как я и хотел
Грустно, пиздец, как я и хотел.
Check out
Track analysis of “Grustno” (2020, 17 min).
From
Иди и смотри (2019).
Чуть-чуть неловко (2020)
Чуть-чуть неловко вышло
И твоя юбка пышная
Чуть-чуть неловко вышло
Прости.
Девять лестниц (2013)
Nine steps of live looping; more sessions like this in Сорваны рамы (2013), Кислота (2013), and Знаешь (2012).
More
Нелюбие (2020) is instrumental and just a bit awkward. More underground cinema in Во все глаза (EP Video, 2020).
Listen on Apple Music, Bandcamp, Last.fm, Spotify.
Read First it was sad, now it’s a bit awkward. Listen to DenDerty’s new dance hit (Meduza, 2020) and “So sad, ****** [it’s terrifying]”: premiere of DenDerty’s sad video (Afisha, 2020).
More on Instagram, VK, and Genius.com.
Most of the music here is also available in an
R1 playlist on YouTube (in the order of posting).
Also see
Best Russian Music and
Russian Song Lyrics.
More
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.
The Retuses 3x
Music
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.
