Zoloto (Vladimir Zolotukhin) 3x
In the past, Владимир Золотухин (Vladimir Zolotukhin, 1990) sang and played in Cardio Beat, which even participated in X Factor (2015). But he performs best alone (now under the name Zoloto since then). And the more limited the resources you give him, the better the work he returns with.
Compare the studio versions of Останемся здесь (We’ll stay here) and Улицы ждали (The streets were waiting) with the two below. A ukulele, the wind, and an acoustic guitar: might sound like little, but it was just enough. Both are from 8 Месяцев в Вегасе (8 Months in Vegas, 2019), also featured in a documentary film (Kana Beisekeyev, 2020, 25 min).
Останемся здесь
Улицы ждали
Also see Acoustic live (2020) and performances at Неформат (2020) and Новое Радио (2019).
Стихнет мотор (2018)
Studio version from Всё вернётся (2020).
More
- PMML (2020)
- Кто нам поможет (2020)
- Миллион (2018)
- Сверчки (2016)
- Эскимос (2016)
From 2021 is Я ненавижу свет, based on a poem (1912) by Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938). More details at Afisha Daily (2021); recitation by Sofya Skya (2019).
You can also listen on
Spotify and
Apple Music.
More Zoloto on
Facebook,
Instagram,
VK.
Interviews at
Gakku TV (2019, 51 min) and
BLVD X (2019, 3 min).
See/read:
- Vladimir Zolotukhin: “There are Kazakhs who set trends in Russia” (Esquire, 2019)
- Who is Zoloto? And what should you know about him? (PeopleTalk, 2019)
- 8 Facts about Vladimir Zolotukhin aka Zoloto (Modern Rock, 2019)
Most of the music here is also in an
R1 playlist on YouTube (in order of release).
See also
Best Russian Music and
Russian Song Lyrics.
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Music
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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.
