Mumiy Troll

Acquiring their name from a figure in the famous children’s books of Tovi Jansson, Mumiy Troll have grown to be among Russia’s most popular and critically acclaimed contemporary pop/rock and roll acts from the ’90s and 2000s. Focused round the offbeat passionate lyrics and smart, charismatic existence of songwriter and frontman Ilya Lagutenko, the music group has developed individually from all of those other Russian music picture, opting to utilize foreign companies and recording nearly all its function in Britain. Although tinkering with different musical styles over time, Mumiy Troll are suffering from an idiosyncratic audio positioned halfway between traditional Russian rock and roll and Brit-pop. Lagutenko originally began writing and documenting as an adolescent in Vladivostok in 1981. The next calendar year, he produced the music group Surprise with Vladimir Lutsenko (bass) and Alik Krasnov (all of the remaining equipment), plus they followed the name Mumiy Troll in 1983 before documenting their debut studio room record, Novaya Luna Aprelya (New Apr Moon), throughout 1984 and 1985. The record was well received locally, and by 1986 was frequently performed in Vladivostok discos. Nevertheless, using the music group officially unsanctioned in the Soviet Union, the brand new attention had not been without its disadvantages, and at a gathering of college students at china and taiwan State University or college, Mumiy Troll had been bewilderingly pronounced to become among the period’s most “socially harmful” rings. For another couple of years, the music group continued hiatus while Lagutenko do national services in the Soviet Military, and it wasn’t until 1990 that Mumiy Troll documented another recording, Delai U-U (Perform U-U). The reunion was short-lived, nevertheless, as Lagutenko, a fluent British and Mandarin loudspeaker, went to utilize a business consultancy solid in London and China as well as the record vanished without a track. In 1996, while surviving in London on the peak from the Brit-pop picture, Lagutenko made a decision to resurrect the music group and started documenting a new record with manufacturer Chris Bandy, who acquired previously caused the Treat, Duran Duran, the Moving Rocks, and Tears for Doubts. The resulting record, Morskaya (Ocean), premiered later that calendar year. The new industrial sound was an instantaneous achievement in Russia, and by enough time of its follow-up, Ikra (Caviar), a far more traditional Russian rock and roll record, appeared half a year later, the music group was experiencing unparalleled popularity in the home. Having resolved to their current lineup of Lagutenko (vocals, electric guitar), Yuri Tsaler (guitars), Evgeni Zvidenniy (bass), and Oleg Pungin (drums), they began their initial tour of Russia and neighboring countries in 1997. With a considerable existence in the mass media and videos frequently played on tv, 1998 was a prolific calendar year and saw the discharge from the two-volume arranged Shamora: Pravda o Mumiyakh we Trollakh (Shamora: THE REALITY About Mumiy and Troll) aswell as the mini-album S Novym Godom, Kroshka! (Content New Yr, Baby!). After a brief break, Tochno Rtut’ Aloe (Precisely Mercury Aloe) premiered in 2001, as well as the same yr Mumiy Troll had been chosen to displayed Russia in the finals from the Eurovision Music Contest, to arrive 12th using the music “Woman Alpine Blue.” A fresh recording, Meamury (Recollections), was documented in 2002, this time around with Grammy Award-winning maker John Hudson, and soon after its launch it was granted a gold disk for product sales in Latvia. The accolades continuing, as well as the same yr the group was granted the Russian music industry’s Zolotoy Grammophon (Golden Gramophone) reward and was called Best Band of 2002 in the Nashe Radio Honours, while the music “Eto Po Lubvi” (Due to Love) earned the award for Greatest Melody of 2002. Through the next couple of years Mumiy Troll focused their initiatives on film and tv soundtracks, documenting music for the movies Azazel (2002), Nochnoi Dozor (2003), Pohititeli Knig and Neznaika we Barrabass (2004), and Kosmichesky Reys (2006). In addition they collaborated with previous Suede vocalist Brett Anderson for the sci-fi thriller Paragraph 78 in 2007. Through the same period, the music group lent its name to several public causes such Helps understanding and environmental problems, and performed at many awareness-raising events all over the world. In 2005 they released the record Sliyanie I Pogloschenie (Merger and Acquisition), an record filled with oblique lyrics associated with themes of identification, big business, and global power, and eventually toured in China. In 2006 they participated in the worldwide gala concert End Contrafact in Moscow, a meeting timed to coincide using the G8 summit contacting for the security of intellectual real estate. Over the symbolic time of July 7, 2007, Mumiy Troll’s 11th studio room record, AMBA, premiered, and for the very first time the bandmembers announced that they might be documenting an English-language edition.