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.
This blog introduces modern music from Russia and former Soviet states.
Keywords: Russian music, soviet, post-soviet, indie, alternative.
Keywords: Russian music, soviet, post-soviet, indie, alternative.
Recent posts
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...
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...
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...