biographical info
Dancers of the world unite, The Kremlin revolution
has arrived. With the release of our new full-length musical manifesto
Red Menace (2008), and on the heels of our MusicNL Award for
Alternative Artist of the Year (2007), our proletariat serf uprising
has been mobilized to implement our mandate of radical political
resistance. We believe that the time is now for a cultural revolution
grounded in a radical art that can break the bonds of the consensus
culture that has long held us shackled in cells of capitalist
mediocrity. The Kremlin's proletariat serf will incite the masses to
throw down these chains. Blending modern surf and post-rock styles with
analog noise experiments, The Kremlin has reinvented the conventional
coordinates of revolutionary music. We have created a serf rock
movement that combines theatrical, go-go infused, live shows with a
radical socialist politics that advocates for freedom from capitalist
tyranny. We are not advocates of the bureaucratic communism of Soviet
Russia. Rather, we see homologies between our repressive contemporary
political scenario and that of Lenin’s in 1917. The Lenin we look to
is the Lenin who emerged from a constellation of political despotism
with a Marxism capable of shattering, then rebuilding, the political
landscape. It is from this Lenin that we draw inspiration: in his
spirit we declare revolution on a debilitating capitalist ideology that
has placed a prohibition on sovereign thought and creation for far too
long. In the words of Komrad Trotsky, True art is unable not to be
revolutionary. The Kremlin is a catalyst, an iskra that uses radical
music to awaken individuals to the immense potential for revolutionary
change contained within the engaged creative spirit. We are united in
dance for the sovereignty of the common person.
lineup
Comrade Lenin Guitar/ Leader of KDPC
Comrade Ernesto Guevara Guerrilla four-string
Prince Igor Serf Skins, Transistor Radio, Head of Engineering