Purple Eve

RU

Acid, Adult contemporary, Baroque Pop, Britpop, Coldwave, Cool, Electro Punk , Electro-/technopop, Emo, English, French, Garage Rock, Glam, Goth, Indie rock, Indie-pop, Jazz, Jazz fusion, Noise pop, Post-Hardcore, Post-punk, Prog, Shoegazing, Stoner Rock, Thrash, Twee

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Notes from Saturn: EIMIC, Serdceder, The Just, and Purple Eve

New releases from Moscow and Novosibirsk paint different pictures of everyday unpredictability. The results range from workplace hassles to existential despair. Faraway in Siberia, though, a happier story is told.

Web-Based Belief Systems: Fleur, U-Piter, Muffled Shine, and Eholov

Many bands are coming to terms with web-based distribution systems. Those same opportunities, however, lead some groups to wonder who exactly is listening. Thoughts of anonymity and a digital emptiness transpire.

The Search for Stability: Ahti Arumetsa, Tim Ballista, and Purple Eve

Some recent recordings from Tallinn and Moscow use glitch and drone textures in order to ponder the difficult creation of stable meaning against a backdrop of fractured and/or fleeting actuality.

Three Forms of Melancholy: Manicure, Dead Queens, and Purple Eve

These ensembles from Minsk and Moscow all draw upon aspects of sadness in defining their new material. More specifically, we find direct references to decadence, melancholy, and even gothic storytelling. The results, however, are somewhat surprising...

Purple Eve: The Tricky Choice between PR and Bloodshed

Purple Eve are, in essence, a female duo from Moscow. Following the release of a debut album, they've been busy with promotional work, which seems to consist of shouting at people online

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...

"Purple Eve" Go Electric: People Get Hurt

When we last covered Purple Eve in October, they were - on the basis of available recordings - a fundamentally acoustic outfit. Things have really changed; this week the duo of Ol'ga and Iana (below) - together with a few friends from Moscow ensemble Watch Out for the Train (Beregis' poezda) -...

Purple Eve: Songs from the Edge

The tradition of female singer-songwriters has never been that well established in Russia, especially in an acoustic vein. National media pays such performers scant attention, and the few well-known women who do perform solely on an acoustic guitar have tended to turn their peripheral status i...