From 1989 album 'Russian Field Experiments', title in English is 'Tops And Roots' after Russian folk tale 'The Old Man & The Bear'. It mentions the deaths of two big influences on Egor Letov: Dimitri Selivanov ("musician Selivanov hanged himself with a scarf") from Промышленная Архитектура ( Industrial Architecture) who played with GrOb and Alexander Bashlachev who killed himself falling out of ninth story window in 1987 (" while he ate and drank from a glass / the poet Bashlachev killed himself / fell out the window").
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From 1989 album 'Russian Field Experiments', title in English is 'Tops And Roots' after Russian folk tale 'The Old Man &… read more
From 1989 album 'Russian Field Experiments', title in English is 'Tops And Roots' after Russian folk tale 'The Old Man & The Bear'. It mentions the deat… read more
Grazhdanskaya Oborona (Civil Defence in Russian) was a Soviet/Russian psychedelic punk band, founded in 1984 and led by singer/songwriter Yegor Letov until his death in 2008. It is famous for its raw, unpolished sound and symbolist, absurdist, often rude yet socially charged lyrics. Letov also created side projects Егор И Опизденевшие (Egor and Opizdenevshie) and Коммунизм (Communism). Band's name is often abbreviated as "grob", which translates to "coffin". The band was created in Omsk, Siberia, by a young Soviet poet and musician, Yegor (Igor) Letov, in D… read more
Grazhdanskaya Oborona (Civil Defence in Russian) was a Soviet/Russian psychedelic punk band, founded in 1984 and led by singer/songwriter Yegor Letov until his death in 2008. It is famous f… read more
Grazhdanskaya Oborona (Civil Defence in Russian) was a Soviet/Russian psychedelic punk band, founded in 1984 and led by singer/songwriter Yegor Letov until his death in 2008. It is famous for its raw, unpolished sound and symbolist, ab… read more