As for the band, well that Serbian tuborock I mentioned and Goran Bregovitch, who used to do scores for Custurica and also made a big hit in Turkey, and ZSZ, they all sound the same to me. In fact I prefer the Serbian variant bec it's more heavy metal.
Hakki
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She's certainly got charms, but I won't be finding out about them, because, as a non-ethnic Russian, I am undatable, though I am go-to-a-concert-withable. :)
BTW, Baudrillard is pretty trendy in Russia. The translation of his "America" has a long, 40-50 page intro applying his analysis, if you want to call it that, of the US to Russia. The two countries really do have a lot of similarities.
Also BTW, Kusturica has his own band -- he plays guiter for No Smoking Orchestra, who are reasonably well known in Russia and sing in English, Russian, German and Serbo-Croatain, if you don't know them.
ZSZ's first album, Hardcore Moldovanesc, is a lot more mettalish than they're later stuff. They started off as a Rage Against the Machine-type band. The lead singer's grandfather is a really famous Rumanian/Moldovan singer -- I don't remember his name though.
I'm off to go take a walk on Red Square. Beaitiful weather, can't stay indoors any more. Ta-ta!
Chris Doss The Russia Journal