REVIEW Svetlanas" Svetlanas "(2010, CD, Vampire)
"They may have changed in appearance and accent, but I swear to God that their approach to music and 'still rough and strong as a shot of vodka. "( Malcolm McLaren). This quotation, and other juicy news revealed by Wikileaks these days, they help us understand who the Svetlanas, a punk band active since 1977, which 70 years working for the KGB (the largest police organization in the Soviet Union). They were spies, informers, agents fighters who had entrusted the task of stealing military secrets of the most powerful nations of the world. In 1977, during their last show of coverage in the U.S., a defective amplifier triggered by a shock 3.000V, and the four band members, affected by violent shock, fell into a coma. Hibernated by the KGB, of the four was lost, until in 2008 a British tabloid could be traced to Milan, where the Svetlanas, with new names, Angela, Alex, relax and Mick have reformed the band to devote himself full time what before was just a cover. After one EP ("KGB Sessions") marked by strength and power of the best punk bands of 77, now back with a fulminant and self-titled debut LP, whose 13 tracks you reconcile with life and with a genre too often repetitive and devoid of ideas. Theirs is Punk Rock and rickety in pure 77 sguaiatissimo style, inspired all-round Soviet iconography and rich in irony at its best. To a great start with "National Anthem Svetlanas " introduced Soviet innate, and continue the great without spending a second singing of the Trans-Siberian, Soviet spies and assassins, the KGB, Siberian girls, Gagarin, and clearly, the principal of Communists to eat children. By the way, after a tour of 15 dates in the States, the album was recorded in the vast U.S. Sonic Iguana Studios in Lafayatte, Indiana, owned by Mass Giorgini of Squirtgun who also produced the album . Keep an eye on the live performances of these four, and when they come from your share Do not let escape, will not disappoint.
This is Russkij Punk !!!!!
Riki Signorini (ribelliavita@myspace.com)
I Loved
1.Svetlanas National Anthem
2.Soviet assassin
3.KGB
4.Siberian girl is dead
5.Double agent
6.Step
7.Go go back Gagarin
8.Transiberian
9.I am a spy show
10.TV
11.I hate Yoko
12.Hibernation
13.We children eat
Contact
www.myspace.com/svetlanas77
www.vampata.com