The band "Mongol Shuudan": history of creation, composition, best songs, interesting facts, influence

Russian rock - a unique genre that has given the domestic listener a huge collection of material that can be envied by anyone interested in rock music. It is a real cultural movement, a symbol of perestroika, bringing aesthetic pleasure.

The number of functions of Russian rock is not counted in numbers. The peculiarity of it lies in the fact that the genres that Russian rock music has absorbed, in many ways go beyond the boundaries of classic rock 'n' roll and open up space for the incredible experiments with sound and lyrics. The article will talk about a musical project that struck Russian rock with its avant-gardism.

The beginning of the story: Moscow Rock Lab and "the best album of the late 80s"

In contrast to the Leningrad Rock Club, formed in the early 80's and managed to fall in love with millions of Soviet people, the capital's rock club, the Leningrad Rock Club, which was formed in the early 80's and managed to make millions of Soviet people fall in love with itself. rock lab was launched only in the second half of that decade. This was done by order of the first secretary of the Moscow City Committee of the CPSU Victor Grishin and meant that musicians who joined a community organisation would be looked after.

The functionality of the of the Moscow Rock Lab was similar and comparable to what other rock clubs were doing. Thanks to this organisation, many amateur Moscow and Moscow suburbs bands received official status. Membership in the rock laboratory gave musicians the opportunity to "legalise" your art and catch a wave of popularity.

One of the bands accepted into the Moscow Rock Lab was a collective with an unusual name "Mongol Shuudan.". It was formed in 1989 in Moscow on the initiative of Valery Skoroded. During the early perestroika years, this unknown Muscovite wandered around amateur bands with obscene names and performed in various Moscow clubs. At some point, he realised that he wanted to broadcast his ideas to the masses, so he put together his own band.

The name of the collective also arouses interest in "MSH". In fact, the history of its creation is a matter of chance. In translation from Mongolian, "Mongol Shuudan" means "Mongolian Post.

Valery Skoroded about the band's name: "The story is quite simple! We were standing at a bus stop, and next to it we saw a printing kiosk. There were beautiful stamps in it. They were called "Mongolian Post".

The birth date of MSH is the date of the band's first concert, ironically coinciding with Laughter Day. After the high-profile performance Skoroded and his team started recording a whole album. Magnetophonic "Steam Locomotive Anarchy" The album was so innovative that the band was immediately accepted into the Moscow Rock Laboratory. The album turned out to be so innovative that MSH was immediately accepted into the Moscow Rock Laboratory, and also without any audition! And the authoritative music critic Artemy Troitsky called the band's debut. the best album of 1989. This was the first step on the road to fame. Russian exotics began to gain popularity.

International success and the best early recordings

"Mongol Shuudan." - a very bright band working in the genre of Russian rock. The Muscovites were distinguished from all other bands belonging to the rock crowd by their unique style and meaningful content of lyrics.

They were the first representatives of the so-called "anarcho-rock.". Valery Skoroded's fascination with political currents that appealed to the human freedom.

"Even before MSH, I was rehearsing with a group in the Resonance Cultural Centre, and the owner of that institution gave us the opportunity to familiarise ourselves with the relevant literature. I was very much struck and fascinated by it, and I began to delve into the essence of destroying all types of coercion and exploitation of man by man," confessed Valery Skoroded, the leader of the group.

Project "anarcho-rock." inevitably refers us to the adaptation of the domestic historiesthat the band promotes. In their songs "MSH" reinterpret the civil war in Russia through the prism of the anarcho-peasant movement, which has been called in history "Makhnovshchina". At the same time, the genre style of compositions is diverse: "Mongol Shuudan" wrote in the spirit of hardcore punk, and on the other hand - rhythm and blues and chanson.

Freedom-loving lyricsWritten by Skoroded, the public loved the songs and the band found its audience. The second record called "All Things", which became popular under the name of "Walk the field."In 1992, Sergei Bodrov, Jr. offered the band to write a musical accompaniment for a crime drama. In 1992, Sergei Bodrov Jr. offered the band to write the musical accompaniment to the crime drama "I wanted to see angels.".

After several pogroms in places where MSH performed, the band was out of work for some time. Western business came to the rescue: the band was invited to the European tour. Abroad "Mongol Shuudan." made a sensation and even performed on the same concert stage with such famous punks as The Exploited and L7.

The dashing 90s that took a toll....

Ambience instabilitieswhich dominated the 90s, was also reflected in the activities of the "anarcho-rockers" from MSH. The group decided to suspend its creative activity for some time after the death of the "anarcho-rockers" from MSH Alexei Polyakovbass player and part-time band director.

The tragic events shocked the musicians, because on Alexey's initiative the first capital's first late-night rock cafewhich the MSH participants liked to visit. But it was impossible to turn back time... That is why Valery Skoroded put together a new line-up and came back with new music.

Two years after Alexey Polyakov's passing in the album "Too much." there's a song "Moscow."which became the anarcho-rockers' biggest hit. The poet Esenin's verses were used as a basis for the song "That's it! Now it's settled. No going back..."The music was composed by Valery Skoroded, the leader of the collective.

"Mongol Shuudan" today

"Anarcho-rock." has been around for over three decades and hasn't lost its relevance. In the era of 2000s "Mongol Shuudan" recorded tribute concerts and acoustic albums, but do not leave out the band anarchist.

Frequent changes in the line-up of "MSH" do not affect the permanent leader. Now the band's frontman Valery Skoroded is recording the next albumand he's releasing reissues old records and doesn't leave fans of the band without live concerts.