DEGRADANCE Live in Tula 2004

DEGRADANCE is a russian project of poet and writer Alexei Rafiev, composer and sound-producer Anton “gnusGnus“ Gnusny (1972-2020), and musicians from the Moscow band LamBops - bass-guitarist Konstantin “Kot“ Tolmachev (1964-2007) and guitarist Anton Cheskidov. In 2004, DEGRADANCE performed in the city of Tula at the art-festival “100 years of Salvador Dali“, organized by curator Alexander Aladin on the occasion of the centennial anniversary of the great artist, especially revered by the Tulish avant-garde artistic environment, which once in 1992 even organized the action “Funeral Salvador Dali“ with a solemn procession through the city center, a percussion orchestra, followed by the burial of the effigy of the painter in a coffin and the detention by the police of the same Alexander Aladin as the organizer of this event. Aleksey Rafiev's melody recitation of his poems, together with radical industrial-psychedelic music, quite organically fit into the concept of Dali