Kontora Kooka
Kontora Kooka (“the office of Cook”): an avant-garde, experimental, industrial, art/post-punk band from Samara. Most of their albums are on bandcamp.
Posts by Genre
- Experimental 7
- Folk 4
- Jazz 4
- Rock 4
- Indie Pop 3
- Avant-garde 3
- Post-punk 3
- Trip-hop 2
- Rockabilly 1
- Blues 1
- Downtempo 1
- Soft Rock 1
- Shoegaze 1
- Hip-hop 1
- Psychadelic 1
Experimental
Auktyon
Auktyon (auction) is a great, versatile band from St. Petersburg led by Leonid Fedorov. It has been around from 1978, changing genres and accumulating influe...
Indie to the streets of Moscow
Fairlane Acoustic is a Russian project similar to the popular Take Away Shows of La Blogotheque. Here Russian bands play live on city streets or intimate spa...
Post-punk is big in Russia (Part 1)
The Russian punk culture rose in the 80s together criticism towards the Soviet regime and a growing sense of lack of future. Whether because of a new “no fut...
Kubikmaggi
Kubikmaggi is a band from St. Petersburg which does awesome avant-garde music blending jazz, rock, classical, progressive rock… They call it jazz-punk. Vocal...
Trip-hop from Novosibirsk
With this post I start exploring places further east. Concretely, Novosibirsk in Siberia. Not very widely known but actually Russia’s third most populous cit...
First sampler
My first post is a sampler of new Russian music from different genres. You might start noticing a certain dominance of Saint Petersburg as a indie/experiment...
Folk
Auktyon
Auktyon (auction) is a great, versatile band from St. Petersburg led by Leonid Fedorov. It has been around from 1978, changing genres and accumulating influe...
Evgeny Lebedev
Two jazz projects where the pianist Evgeny Lebedev, from Moscow, participates. LRK Trio: lively jazz, folk and fusion. The trio is Lebedev, Anton Revnyuk and...
SALTO
SALTO: jazz, trip-hop, dub and electro with some Russian folk influences, from Moscow.
First sampler
My first post is a sampler of new Russian music from different genres. You might start noticing a certain dominance of Saint Petersburg as a indie/experiment...
Jazz
Evgeny Lebedev
Two jazz projects where the pianist Evgeny Lebedev, from Moscow, participates. LRK Trio: lively jazz, folk and fusion. The trio is Lebedev, Anton Revnyuk and...
SALTO
SALTO: jazz, trip-hop, dub and electro with some Russian folk influences, from Moscow.
Kubikmaggi
Kubikmaggi is a band from St. Petersburg which does awesome avant-garde music blending jazz, rock, classical, progressive rock… They call it jazz-punk. Vocal...
Peter’s blues in Billy’s band
Billy’s band: a label-and-producer-independent band playing blues, jazz, swing. They call the genre “romantic alcojazz” and sing about (mostly platonic) love...
Rock
Gde-to Tam
Gde-to Tam: psychadelic shaman folk-rock from Moscow. Check their bandcamp page, or follow them on VKontakte.
Auktyon
Auktyon (auction) is a great, versatile band from St. Petersburg led by Leonid Fedorov. It has been around from 1978, changing genres and accumulating influe...
Kubikmaggi
Kubikmaggi is a band from St. Petersburg which does awesome avant-garde music blending jazz, rock, classical, progressive rock… They call it jazz-punk. Vocal...
Megapolis
Megapolis is a rock band from Moscow active since 1987. The most recent music is calm, adult, soft rock. Megapolis’ lyrics use much poetry from Russian poets...
Indie Pop
Svidaniye
Svidaniye (“Date” - as in a romantic date) is an indie band from Moscow. You can see more about them in their label’s website.
Indie to the streets of Moscow
Fairlane Acoustic is a Russian project similar to the popular Take Away Shows of La Blogotheque. Here Russian bands play live on city streets or intimate spa...
First sampler
My first post is a sampler of new Russian music from different genres. You might start noticing a certain dominance of Saint Petersburg as a indie/experiment...
Avant-garde
Kontora Kooka
Kontora Kooka (“the office of Cook”): an avant-garde, experimental, industrial, art/post-punk band from Samara. Most of their albums are on bandcamp.
Auktyon
Auktyon (auction) is a great, versatile band from St. Petersburg led by Leonid Fedorov. It has been around from 1978, changing genres and accumulating influe...
Kubikmaggi
Kubikmaggi is a band from St. Petersburg which does awesome avant-garde music blending jazz, rock, classical, progressive rock… They call it jazz-punk. Vocal...
Post-punk
ssshhhiiittt!
ssshhhiiittt! does post-punk with a very good vibe. More post-punk from Rostov! Make sure to check their bandcamp website.
Kontora Kooka
Kontora Kooka (“the office of Cook”): an avant-garde, experimental, industrial, art/post-punk band from Samara. Most of their albums are on bandcamp.
Post-punk is big in Russia (Part 1)
The Russian punk culture rose in the 80s together criticism towards the Soviet regime and a growing sense of lack of future. Whether because of a new “no fut...
Trip-hop
SALTO
SALTO: jazz, trip-hop, dub and electro with some Russian folk influences, from Moscow.
Trip-hop from Novosibirsk
With this post I start exploring places further east. Concretely, Novosibirsk in Siberia. Not very widely known but actually Russia’s third most populous cit...
Rockabilly
First sampler
My first post is a sampler of new Russian music from different genres. You might start noticing a certain dominance of Saint Petersburg as a indie/experiment...
Blues
Peter’s blues in Billy’s band
Billy’s band: a label-and-producer-independent band playing blues, jazz, swing. They call the genre “romantic alcojazz” and sing about (mostly platonic) love...
Downtempo
Trip-hop from Novosibirsk
With this post I start exploring places further east. Concretely, Novosibirsk in Siberia. Not very widely known but actually Russia’s third most populous cit...
Soft Rock
Megapolis
Megapolis is a rock band from Moscow active since 1987. The most recent music is calm, adult, soft rock. Megapolis’ lyrics use much poetry from Russian poets...
Shoegaze
Post-punk is big in Russia (Part 1)
The Russian punk culture rose in the 80s together criticism towards the Soviet regime and a growing sense of lack of future. Whether because of a new “no fut...
Hip-hop
Antoha MC
Antoha MC is from the suburbs of Moscow and does some very catchy Hip-hop with traces of trumpets and balalaika. You can check his website here and enjoy the...
Psychadelic
Gde-to Tam
Gde-to Tam: psychadelic shaman folk-rock from Moscow. Check their bandcamp page, or follow them on VKontakte.