The Retuses 3x
From the green city of Zelenograd / Зеленоград. Dreamy indie-folk with a melancholic undertone. Created by Mikhail Rodionov (1992).
Омут
Title and opening track of the latest (or last?) release by The Retuses, in 2019.
Уходи
Lyrics
Chords
Live in Kiev (2016)
Шаганэ
From the talk show Профилактика, 27-01-2012
Lyrics
Lyric video
Live in Moscow (2012)
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Music
- 17:55 sessions (2020, 13 m)
- PSP (2019)
- Когда нибудь мой свет тебя найдет (2016)
- Sagitta (2016), also see lyric video and live at ШООМ
- Молчать и Смотреть (2013)
- Tilsit (2013)
Interview
- «Something Good», The Retuses, Mikhail Rodionov (Silver Rain, 2019, 43 m)
- «It’s Harder to Perform with Such Music»: The Retuses’ First Major Concert After the Comeback (Afisha, 2019, 5 m)
See/Read
- «All Art Is Close to Self-Destruction»: The Retuses’ Leader on Yesenin, Fears, and Depression (Lenta.ru, 2019)
- «I Don’t Understand What I’m Doing on Stage»: The Retuses’ Leader on New Music (Gazeta.ru, 2019)
- Interview with Mikhail Rodionov (Afisha.ru, 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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Muziek
Anyone who wants to present Russian music cannot ignore Zemfira. Popular and mainstream – millions of records sold – but the attitude is rock.
Raw Anti-Putin punk from Nizhny Novgorod / Нижний Новгород. Loosely based on ‘Maggie’ by The Exploited.
War Title track from the album (YouTube, Bandcamp, Spotify) released in 2023. Featuring девять песен о войне, nine songs about war, с ее похоронами в финале, with its funeral in the finale (Meduza 2023). Video clip by Какой-то либерал, 2023 Lyrics, lyrics with translation War Funeral Also see, from the same album, the videos for: […]
Offret 3x
Muziek
"nThe 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sacrifice_(1986_film)) in Swedish by the Russian Andrei Tarkovsky.n"
‘До свиданья, дорогая!’
Muziek
Я СМЕЛЕЙ (2019) I am braver – from their first and only album Себя потерял (2019). A world of colorful paints But I am just a shadow Don’t look for me I’m braver Don’t look for me I’m braver Don’t look for me I’m braver The […]
Manizha 3x
Muziek
Strong There’s not much to the message if you just listen to the chorus. Every Russian woman should know she is strong, but that’s in English (lyrics). Still, it was enough to cause controversy: see for example Russia’s Eurovision entry to be investigated for ‘illegal’ lyrics (The Guardian, 18-03-2021) and Conservative Russia in retreat as […]
