Zvuki Mu Russian rock band profile 1987 TV short Pyotr Mamonov

1987 television short profiling Zvuki Mu, a Russian lo-fi post-punk alternative rock band whose only internationally released album was produced by Brian Eno. The group was founded in Moscow circa 1983 and fronted by singer-songwriter Pyotr Mamonov, a fixture of the Russian avant-garde art scene known for his dissident art and poetry, as well as for writing Captain Beefheart/Talking Heads-style stream-of-consciousness lyrics. In 2013, The National paid tribute to Zvuki Mu in their "Sea of Love" video, which is a reenactment of Zvuki Mu’s 1995 video for "Rude Sunset." The BetaGems channel also has "8-12-89 Russian Rock Exchange Contest television commercial" and "Longlost Music Video: Boris Grebenshikov Radio Silence 1989."

BetaGems are culled from an archive of over 1000 beta video tapes recorded from the early 1980s into the 1990s. Most feature live music performances broadcast on television in San Diego CA, though there are also rarely seen commercials, comedy clips, and other material that doesn't seem to be anywhere else on Youtube or online.

Most of the tapes were recorded on a Sony SL-HFT7 Super Beta Theater Hi-Fi Stereo - the same model was refurbished and is being used for these digital transfers and uploads. In rare occasions where a BetaGems clip does appear elsewhere, we're only uploading if our own beta master is better quality or contains material not seen previously. Much footage comes from public television and public access broadcasts that the taper, who worked for a local cable TV production company in the 1980s, monitored nightly for several years. Some of the programming is strictly regional, mostly from the San Diego area.

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