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Zvuki Mu , a Russian rock
Russian rock

Russian rock refers to rock music made in Russia and/or in Russian language. Rock and roll became known in the Soviet Union in the 1960s and quickly broke free from its western roots....
 band, was founded in Moscow in the early 1980s. Lead singer and songwriter Pyotr Mamonov
Pyotr Mamonov

Pyotr Mamonov is a former Russian Rock and roll musician and songwriter, former frontman of the Moscow band Zvuki Mu.Mamonov was one of the few rock musicians from former USSR who managed to achieve recognition abroad, through his collaboration with Brian Eno in the late 1980s....
 is one of the most creative, revered and eccentric figures of the Russian art scene, whose absurdist lyrics are as playful and disturbing as his vocal style and explosive on-stage presence. The band's sound combined starkly simple yet textured melodies with synthesizer sounds, quite unlike anything else heard in Russian rock
Russian rock

Russian rock refers to rock music made in Russia and/or in Russian language. Rock and roll became known in the Soviet Union in the 1960s and quickly broke free from its western roots....
 at the time.






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Zvuki Mu , a Russian rock
Russian rock

Russian rock refers to rock music made in Russia and/or in Russian language. Rock and roll became known in the Soviet Union in the 1960s and quickly broke free from its western roots....
 band, was founded in Moscow in the early 1980s. Lead singer and songwriter Pyotr Mamonov
Pyotr Mamonov

Pyotr Mamonov is a former Russian Rock and roll musician and songwriter, former frontman of the Moscow band Zvuki Mu.Mamonov was one of the few rock musicians from former USSR who managed to achieve recognition abroad, through his collaboration with Brian Eno in the late 1980s....
 is one of the most creative, revered and eccentric figures of the Russian art scene, whose absurdist lyrics are as playful and disturbing as his vocal style and explosive on-stage presence. The band's sound combined starkly simple yet textured melodies with synthesizer sounds, quite unlike anything else heard in Russian rock
Russian rock

Russian rock refers to rock music made in Russia and/or in Russian language. Rock and roll became known in the Soviet Union in the 1960s and quickly broke free from its western roots....
 at the time. One of Zvuki Mu's albums was produced by the famous British musician and producer Brian Eno
Brian Eno

Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno , commonly known as Brian Eno , is an England musician, composer, record producer, music theory and singer, who, as a solo artist, is best known as the People known as the father or mother of something of ambient music....
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The band's name is best translated as "The Sounds of Mu" (where "mu" has been said to stand for music
Music

Music is an art form whose media is sound organized in time. Common elements of music are pitch , rhythm , dynamics , and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture ....
, Moscow
Moscow

Moscow is the capital and the largest types of inhabited localities in Russia of the Russian Federation. It is also the largest European cities and metropolitan areas, with the Moscow metropolitan area ranking among the largest urban areas in the world....
 streets, Japanese/Korean negative
Mu (negative)

Mu , and Wu is a word which has been roughly translated as "no", "none", "without", "no meaning". While used in Japanese and Chinese mainly as a prefix to imply the absence of something , in English it is more famously used as a response to certain koans and other questions in Zen Buddhism, intending to indicate that the question i...
 or a cow's 'moo').

Some of the band's recordings were later used in Mamonov's theatre performances, with only the vocal parts being sung live.

See also

  • CoH
    CoH (musician)

    CoH is the musical alias of Ivan Pavlov , a Russian-born sound artist and engineer. Pavlov was formerly in the group Zvuki Mu . He has lived in Sweden since 1995....


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