Russki Beat is a project
fusing beatbox, futurist sound poetry, spoken word and stand-up comedy.
The performances take shape of sound and movement bacchanalies, a
series of constant transformations through styles and moods.
The emphasis is placed on letting the body speak for itself, revealing
its inner rhythms and emotions. The album "Psychorambles"
is out in September 2008.
A famous Russian writer said: "Russia is not part of humanity, but
exists only to teach it a lesson".
Russki Beat is ruthless and ironic, cheap and cheesy, brutal and easy
all at the same time. It's there to teach us all a lesson of embracing
everything you love and hate and adding a folk flavor to it.
Russki Beat is about creating a context where people can let go of
their social limitations, obligations, and castrations. It promotes
the core four values and teaches the audience to join in this exorcist
action:
• indulgence
• naivety
• kitsch
• brutality
A combination of all these four qualities is what the mysterious Russian
soul is about. Hence the name, Russki Beat.
The sound of Russki Beat is indulgent and naive, kitschy and brutal.
Some Russian trendsetters define Russki Beat as "Futurism transcended
through Russian reality". Russki Beat totally embraces this definition
because it offers a smarter way of saying what we believe. The future
can only be created by combining the elements that usually don't "fit"
together.
In order to communicate its message more clearly, Russki Beat occasionally
hosts events, which fuse performance, live art, spoken word, music,
video, food, and vodka. Russki Beat uses any means to communicate
its Propaganda to wider audience and, more importantly, to make them
join in.
Remember! Indulgence, Naivety, Kitsch, and Brutality is what we stand
for and is what we want you to experience when you come in contact
or do Russki Beat style.
