The Music of Russia in the 21st century

The Russian pop music is well established, and it enjoy the mainstream achievement through the pop music media such as MTV Russian, Muz TV and different other radio stations. A series of pop musicians have broken through in the present eras. The Russian duet T.A.T.U is the very popular Russian pop ensemble of its era. They have extended as the number one in many countries around the world, with many of their singles and albums. Other famous musicians also include the Eurovision 2008 winner Dima Bilan, as well as VIA Gra, Vintage, Valery Meladze, Nyusha, Philipp Kirkorov, Alsou, and Vitas. Some of the music producers include Igor Krutoy, Igor Matvienko, Maxim Fadeev, Ivan Shapovalov and Konstantin Meladze dominate a main share of the Russian’s pop music market, in some pattern continuing the Soviet pattern of musician management. On the other way round, some independent acts like Neoclubber use the current-year promo tools to avoid these Soviet old-patterned ways in getting their supporters.

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The rock music scene has slowly changed from the united trend into many diverse subgenres familiar to those established in the west. The youth pop rock and alternative rock includes Zemfira, Bi-2, Troll Mumiy, Splean and Zveri. The punk rock, grunge and ska includes Leningrad, Korol i Shut Pilot, Elisium and Distemper. The heavy metal scene has also increased extensively, with the current bands playing Power and Progressive metal like catharsis, Mechanical Poet, Shadow Host and Epidemia and Pegan metal includes Butterfly temple, Arkona and Temnozor.

Rock music media has become widespread in the current Russia. The very popular is known as the Nashe radio, which is popularizing the classical rock and pop punk. This chart dozen is the major rock chart in Russia, and it is Nashestvie rock festival that bring around 100,000 supporters yearly and was dubbed Russian Woodstock by the media. Other includes the A-One TV station, concentrating in alternative music and hardcore. It has popularized ensembles such as Tracktor Bowling, Amatory and Slot, and awarded numerous of them with its Russian Alternative Music Prize. The Radio Maximum broadcasts both the Russian and western current pop and rock also.

Other forms of the music include traditional rock (Melnitsa), trip pop (Linda) and reggae (Jah Division). The Rap/Hip Hop is represented by the Bad Balance, Mnogotochie, Kasta, and Ligalize. There is also an experimental rapcore scene headlined by Dolphin and Kirpichi.

A specific solely Russian type of music has appeared which combines criminal songs, bard and romance music. It is labeled with Russian chanson (a neologism promoted by its supporter, Radio Chanson). These major musicians include Alexander Rosenbaum, Mikhail Shufutinsky and Mikhail Krug. With words about the daily life and the society, and often romanticization of the criminal underworld, chanson is particularly renowned among the adult males of the lower social level.

The electronic music in current Russia is under established in comparison to other genres. It is vastly due to a lack of promotion. There are some of the independent underground acts performing IDM, house, dark psytrance, downtempo and trance (also include tracker music scene), and broadcasting their composition via internet radio. They include Fungus Funk, Kindzadza, Parasense, Lesnikov-16 Messer Fur Frau Muler and Yolochnye Igrushki. Some of the few musicians that broke through the mainstream media include DJ Groove and PPK that adventure the Soviet movie sound beats for their dance remixes. In the 2000s the darkwave and Industrial scene, closely connected to Goth subculture, has become widespread, with such musicians as Stillife, Dvar, Theodor Bastard, Otto Dix, Biopsychoz, Shmeli and Roman Rain.

The outline of the classical or concert hall music has a substantial degree been hidden by one hand and emerge of commercial renowned music in Russia, and on the other way it lack promotion since the failure of the USSR. However a series of composers born in the 50s and later have made some different, popular Leonid Desyatnikov who became the initial composer in years to have a current opera commissioned by the Bolshoi Theatre (Rosenthal’s children the year 2005), and whose music have won by Gidon Kremer and Roman Mints. In the meantime Gubaidulina, amongst several previous Soviet composers of her generation, continues to uphold a high outline outside the Russia composing, several respected and well-accepted compositions include in tempus praesens in the year 2007 for the violinist Anne Sophie Mutter.

In the early 2000s marked a flourish of musical in Russia. Notre-Dame de Paris, We Will Rock You, Romeo ET Juliette and Nord-Ost were regularly performed in Moscow theatres at the period. The fame of the musicals was hindered by the 2002 Moscow theatre hostage crisis and only renewed at the end of the year.