![]() We're gonna rock the world 'til everybody hears! We're gonna use a little less we're gonna save a little more! We're gonna change, change, ch, ch, ch, change! We're gonna change it day by day! ![]() “They ask us how we're finding it here, whether we’re settling in.5th grade - "Sharing the Planet: Assignment Earth!" Program “It’s written on our faces that we’re not local,” Yevgeny said. Georgians have also been welcoming and hospitable, they said. ![]() “We all came to a new country, everyone is in the same boat we have all left home, everyone is trying to recreate their own worlds from zero, and people help each other.” “We are more united because of the war,” Pavel explained. The four bandmates spent their first months in Tbilisi working to renovate their rented home, intending for it to become a hub for other newcomers. ![]() Pavel said fellow emigrés have been a crucial source of camaraderie. But as immigrants in their early 20s, they face an additional challenge: assimilating and integrating into a new country. Keen to rebuild their offline fan base from scratch, the musical hybrid has already performed several concerts in Tbilisi, with crowds made up of new arrivals and longtime residents alike.Īs artists, Pavel, Yevgeny, Denis and Gleb have a message to spread and a sound to share. “Tbilisi itself is a great place for our music,” Pavel said. They also spend time collaborating with other musicians in the local scene, including fellow Russian emigrants. “We work as one unit and help each other write songs for our individual bands,” Pavel said, describing their collaboration as a “supergroup.” Tbilisi is both a new home and fresh musical base for the four musicians: they’ve built a makeshift studio in Gleb’s bedroom and transported their instruments and equipment from Moscow so they can continue to write and release music independently. Gleb and Denis’s band, Mirolyubivnoye Morye, play a fusion of reggae and punk. Pavel and Yevgeny lead Denaturation and describe their style as alternative hip-hop. The young men were members of two separate bands that had enjoyed success in Russia. Upon arriving in Tbilisi this summer, he reunited with friends and fellow Moscow musicians Chuvilin, Denis Baryshsever and Gleb Shumov, who were some of the first to flee to the Georgian capital in reaction to the Kremlin’s assault on Ukraine in late February. “But the true purpose of my trip was to write music, meet old friends and find new ones,” he added. ![]() “I spent my first month in Georgia exactly like this, resting from Moscow,” said band member Pavel Tarletskiy, 23, reclining in a hammock on a terrace in northern Tbilisi. With no end to the war in sight - and little incentive to return home now that Russia is mobilizing its military reserves to fight in Ukraine - many of the estimated 80,000 Russian newcomers to Georgia are putting down roots. “We are pleased we were worried that there would be a negative reaction.” “We can come and give concerts, sing our own songs in our own language and no one tells us not to,” said band member Yevgeny Chuvilin. In their home country, this uncompromising anti-war song would have put the band’s members at risk of fines or prison time under harsh wartime censorship laws passed after the invasion of Ukraine.īut they are free to perform their message-driven music in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi - where they, and tens of thousands of other Russians, have relocated following Moscow’s invasion. “Peace to all, not war / In 100 years, instead of thorns and soot, we will see stars.” “Prisoners of conscience in the hands of bandits and thieves / Order will be disturbed in reality, not in dreams / The force of pressure will push the spring of freedom,” ring out the lyrics to “Right Now,” a new song by Russian rockers Mirolyubivnoye Morye (“Peaceful Sea”). ![]()
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