Moremoney

RU

Acid, Adult contemporary, Baroque Pop, Britpop, Chamber Pop, Cool, Electro-/technopop, English, French, Indie-pop, Jazz, Jazz fusion, Pop rock, Post-punk, Twee

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Uneasy Rap: Ptitsu Em, 299 Records, Krovostok, and Dani Desh

Four new rap recordings from Yekaterinburg and Moscow take a peculiar look at local reality. Instead of the swagger and assurance of much US rap, some very different themes come into view.

Distorted Romanticism: Nady, Dunaewsky69, Clathrus, and King Imagine

Four projects from Moscow and Kiev consider private desires within the contrary pressures of civic existence. The result, not surprisingly, produces a certain tension; it soon takes the form of audible distortion.

Three Tales of Indescribable Places: Galun, SLP, and Stoned Boys

Fresh releases from Moscow and Krasnodar toy with the notion of "conceptual" songwriting. Certain stories or trajectories inform these recordings: they develop in various directions - and along different narrative arcs.

The Dramatic Evolution of "Rokapops": Mujuice and the Mumiy Troll Covers

The new album by Mujuice has been associated with aspects of '90s songwriting in Russia. In particular it is compared to the work of Mumiy Troll, whose catalog is currently reinterpreted by a major Moscow magazine

The OpenSpace "Record v2.0" Project: A Brief Guide to the Entries

The Moscow online culture journal OpenSpace recently launched a competition to find new, talented artists in the field of Russian popular music. One could immediately argue that these contests are a dime a dozen nowadays; the more cynical among us would even counter that any such open-format, in...

MoreMoney: Hopes and Fears for Russian Music's "Tricky" Future

Last September we paid enthusiastic attention to the appearance of Moremoney, otherwise known as Ivan Kalashnikov and Nadia Gritskevich. At that time we noted some of the key themes in the duo's early songs. Having met as a couple of journalism students at Moscow’s Druzhba Narodov University,...

Moremoney: The Strange Benefits of Social Estrangment

On September 4, 2009, Bristol's Tricky performed live at the famous Gorky Park in Moscow. Never one to shy away from self-promotion, the performer - aka Adrian Thaws - was happy to quote some of the more ecstatic assessments of his work from the Russian press. Loudest - and most ludicrous - of a...