Program

RASKOLNIKOV

Influenced by the various wave, post-punk and shoegaze movements of the 70s, 80s and 90s, Raskolnikov's music is as melancholic as it is hypnotic and energetic, with existentialist lyrics. It's a mix of the dark and floating universe of coldwave, mixed with the rebellious energy of post-punk and the melodic density of shoegaze. A penetrating voice accompanies the music, communicating open-ended questions from a first-person perspective, about destruction, anger, obsession, oblivion, regression, fear, failure, pain, regret, downfall and loss of self, but not without references to hope. This polyphony of unordered consciousness, which leads to the division of the self, refers to the name of the group, which comes back to the protagonist Rodion Raskolnikov in Fedor Dostoevsky's social-psychological-philosophical novel 'Crime and Punishment' (in Russian: 'Prestuplenie i nakazanie', 1866).

The Russian word 'raskol' means schism, the break with the conventions of the musical genre to which the group's work refers, as well as the nominative notions of individual and collective being, reason and madness, isolation by society.

https://www.raskolnikov-band.com/
https://www.facebook.com/raskolnikov.band
www.instagram.com/raskolnikov.band

www.youtube.com/channel/UC_H8YKBH-zWpBzf1edV04rw

https://raskolnikovmusic.bandcamp.com/

https://www.manicdepression.fr/

https://icycoldrecords.bandcamp.com/