#Hallucination sports series#

As a young adult, Mamonov worked a series of odd jobs which, according to Zvuki Mu’s biographer Sergei Guryev, offered him a “kaleidoscopic and encyclopaedic” insight into Soviet life. Mamonov’s childhood neighbourhood was Bolshaya Karetnaya, notorious for its criminality and alcohol addiction during the Brezhnev years, likely cultivated the frontman’s aesthetic. Instead, it features a man who is sweating and overheating in a telephone booth, begging a relative back home to wire him more money for his alcoholic escapades. Another hit song, Crimea, makes no mention of the glimmering sea or ancient architecture synonymous with the peninsula. Zvuki Mu’s lyrics are often repetitive and contain few words, sketching out the everyday situations that their languorous heroes find themselves in. One popular song eulogises a “juicy lula-kebab,” a Soviet dish commonly found in cafeterias. And it was this very ordinary appearance, coupled with mundane and simplistic lyrics, that made them so beloved and recognisable to the Russian public. The musician Sergey Ryzhenko described the band’s first concert as a “Russian folkloric hallucination”. “Mamonov in particular resembled something of a lumpen-intellectual,” he adds, referencing the frontman’s refined yet lowbrow appearance (lumpen, initially a Marxist term for the naive members of society’s lowest strata, was a word that Soviet citizens used for its typically male alcoholics, vagrants, and prisoners). “The members looked like Soviet engineers Mamonov and Lipnitsky were well into their 30s when they began to perform,” says Russian cultural critic Yury Saprykin. Zvuki Mu, however, stood out from the rest, in looks, music, and their desire to engage with audiences. If 19th century Romantic poets Alexander Pushkin and Mikhail Lermontov found solace in the verses of Byron and Shelley, popular Soviet rock bands such as Akvarium and Kino found their muses in Bob Dylan’s cadences and Robert Smith’s makeup. But much like their literary predecessors, Soviet rock bands emulated their western counterparts, in musical composition, lyrics, and visual glamour. It only took a few years for the Soviet public to elevate its rock stars to the cult status of Russia’s 19th-century authors. Performances were at first in secret, in apartments, but soon shifted to Soviet Palaces of Culture, often under the oversight of the KGB. Photograph: Sputnik/AlamyĪs the borders between the Soviet Union and the west grew porous in the late 1970s, and Mikhail Gorbachev implemented Glasnost, the “openness and transparency” policy in the 1980s, a fresh cultural environment gave rise to Soviet rock. Los Angeles.Pyotr Mamonov performing with Zvuki Mu. 'Sports Legend Revealed: A marathon runner nearly died'. ^ a b c Cronin, Brian (August 10, 2010).You should also add the template : CS1 maint: date and year ( link).A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing French Wikipedia article at ] see its history for attribution. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation.If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality.

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