Пионерлагерь Пыльная Радуга (ППР)
Not much needs to be said upfront. Perhaps just that Пионерлагерь Пыльная Радуга (Pionerlager Pylnaya Raduga) means Pioneers’ Camp Dusty Rainbow. Listen to the response (or thank you note) to Nirvana from Тверь (= Tver).
Тяжело и медленно (Heavy and Slow) (2013)
Heavy and slow. Not so much the music (though it leans that way), but worse. The days, how they pass. Day after day. Тяжело и медленно, проходит день за днём. (Heavy and slow, day after day goes by.)
From the album Хлам.
БЗВ (2015)
From Правда о потерянном времени (The Truth About Lost Time), which also includes Дуальный Пастор and Дегенеративное Искусство (Degenerate Art, inspired by Oxxxymiron) (2015); version by ППР and Oxxxymiron (2015). And Я передумал, Aleksei Rumyantsev can also do it solo.
БЗВ stands for Безумное, Злобное, Вечное (Mad, Vicious, Eternal). Забирай, получай, помогай (Take, receive, help): Мы несём (We carry) the Безумное злобное вечное (Mad, vicious, eternal).
Прыгать (Jump) (2011)
From
Приятные Плохие Мысли.
Rails, snow, earth
Here I play
Seemingly unimpressive
Semi-transparent
More
- Пшлнхй (2019) – ‘This video has age restrictions and is only available on YouTube’
- Мало (2018)
- Дорога добра (2018)
- Над морем, над сушей (2018)
- Олигофрен (2017)
- гранаты (2012)
More about Пионерлагерь Пыльная Радуга or ППР (PPR) on
Genius.com and
Wikipedia (RU).
See/read
Музыкальное подземелье Румянцева: эпатаж на сцене, дуэт с Оксимироном и миссия рок-н-рольщика (Tverigrad, 2020) and
Aleksei “PPR” Rumyantsev: “Chekhov takes no prisoners” (Literaturno, 2018).
See
Instagram,
VK.
Listen on
Apple Music,
Soundcloud,
Spotify.
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.
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.
