Markscheider Kunst
Encyclopedia
Markscheider Kunst is a ska
band from St.Petersburg, Russia
. It plays afro-rock
, soukous
, ska
and reggae
. Russian musical influences can be heard in their music as well. The band was founded in 1992 by geology
students from St. Petersburg. The band has done gigs in many countries, as well as been the opener band of Manu Chao
in Moscow
in 2002.
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Ska
Ska |Jamaican]] ) is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s, and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae. Ska combined elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and blues...
band from St.Petersburg, Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
. It plays afro-rock
Afro-rock
Afro rock is is a popular dance music pioneered in the late 1960s and early 1970s by such groups as Monomono, Osibisa and Alhaji K. Frimpong. It is a style of which relies heavily on the use of Western string instruments and guitar effects...
, soukous
Soukous
Soukous is a dance music genre that originated in the two neighbouring countries of Belgian Congo and French Congo during the 1930s and early 1940s, and which has gained popularity throughout Africa...
, ska
Ska
Ska |Jamaican]] ) is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s, and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae. Ska combined elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and blues...
and reggae
Reggae
Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Jamaican music, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady.Reggae is based...
. Russian musical influences can be heard in their music as well. The band was founded in 1992 by geology
Geology
Geology is the science comprising the study of solid Earth, the rocks of which it is composed, and the processes by which it evolves. Geology gives insight into the history of the Earth, as it provides the primary evidence for plate tectonics, the evolutionary history of life, and past climates...
students from St. Petersburg. The band has done gigs in many countries, as well as been the opener band of Manu Chao
Manu Chao
Manu Chao , is a French singer of Spanish roots . He sings in French, Spanish, English, Italian, Galician, Arabic and Portuguese and occasionally in other languages...
in Moscow
Moscow
Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
in 2002.
Members
- Sergei Yefremenko (Yefr) - guitar, lyrics, vocals
- Vladimir Matushkin (DJ Nguba) - guitar, backing vocals
- Kirill Oskin - bass, backing vocals
- Sergei Yegorov (Yegor) - drums, backing vocals
- Ramil Shamsutdinov - orchestrated trombone
- Alexander Pljusnin - trumpet
- Michail Nikolajew - percussion
- Iwan Nekljudow - Saxophone
Discography
- Kem Byt? (1994/1996)
- Live in Helsinki (single) (1997)
- St.Petersburg-Kinshasa Transit (1998)
- Krasivo Sleva (2001)
- Na Svyazi (2003)
- Ryba (maxisingle) (2006)
- Café Babalu (2008)
- Utopia (2010)