OK, now it's fuckin' official:
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www.metelkova.org]
Xvostya, you better really come over here, or I'll spank your ass for making me go through all this trouble.
Translation of the press release:
Coming to Gromka:
tuesday, 07. october 2008
22.00
concert
XVS (Moscow, Russian federation)
XVS, aka Xvostya, aka Lethal Krsna.
Dictionary definition:
xvs is a short for Xvostya.
1. surrounded by the glorious aura of the Internet Win
Freelance musician, wunderkind extraordinaire. That weird guy with long hair, whose appartment always shares bizzarre oral frequencies. Thank god he left, even though just for a while, on vacation to Slovenia - our Babushkas are bleeding from painted ears and the samovar went on hunger strike out of protest. We'll have some peace and quiet atleast for one week.
Socially well accepted (among the outcasts). He successfully retouched a Nine Inch Nails song into 'Russian Survivalism' (http://youtube.com/watch?v=3ZsiddFrxGg), and after that, just like that with no warning and in everyone's face, he issued a solo album – 'XVS – re:trospective' (http://xvs.livejournal.com/108444.html), for which the internet will be eternally grateful. He is now preparing a new collection of only imaginarily connected songs. Let's be fooled.
Because defining music styles is a boring sport, let's have the olympics: ambiental blues industrial in a poppy classic way with Burton tendencies and a particular russian accent. Good thing we've got brains that can go mad trying to put this definition into a sound.
Let's break the stereotypes that all Russians are tall blonde guys with huge muscles that can punch you through a concrete wall with the twitch of the little finger (note to self: stop watching action movies).
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www.myspace.com]
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xvs.nin.su]
free admission.