From the underground to the mainstream. Ilyin K.

At the beginning of zero St. Petersburg, it turned out to be the center of the Russian underground and independent rock music overnight, artists from Kaliningrad to Vladivostok flowed into the city. The most unthinkable groups and projects were formed. No one divided the music into styles, but the guitar sound and impudent punk-sound penetrated even into rap, electronic music and, scary to say, chanson. Petersburg clubs worked around the clock, representing something new to the public every evening.

A noticeable player in this crazy series of events was the musical label “Cap-Capan Records”, which turned the reigning chaos into a profitable industry: hundreds of decades were published in a decade Albums, the heroes of the underground passed into the status of the stars of show business.

Gennady Bachinsky, “Himire”, “Psyche”, “P.T.V.P.”, “Animal Jaz”, [Amatory], Jane Air, Stas Baretsky, “La Minor”-these are just a few key names for millions of Russian clabbers and music lovers of that time. This book is the chronology of fateful zero, backed up by a mass of rare photographs, unstable reviews and memories of the artists themselves, many of whom will never give interviews...