Kruzenshtern & Parohod (Russian: Крузенштерн и Пароход) is a Russophone Israel klezmer-rock band from Tel Aviv.
History
The band was formed in 2002 by Igor Krutogolov. Its style was branded "experimental jazz", "klezmercore" (a pun on "hardcore"), "ethno jazz", "avant-garde".
The band members were Igor Krutogolov: bass, voice, Ruslan Gross: clarinet, Guy Shechter: drums, Boris Martzinovsky: accordion.
The name of the band is a pun recognizable by all post-Soviet Russophones. It is based on the fictional steamship "Admiral Ivan Fyodorovich Kruzenshtern" from the Prostokvashino animated film series, which is often as part of a catch phrase "Admiral I.F.Kruzenshtern, a man and a steamship", "pirated" from the title of a requiem poem by Vladimir Mayakovsky, To Comrade Nette, a Steamsip and a Man. The fictional steamship is named after a Russian admiral and explorer Adam Johann von Krusenstern and the real sailing ship, the Kruzenshtern. "Parohod" means "steamship" in Russian.
Discography
- The Craft Of Primitive Klezmer (2003, Auris Media label)
- Songs (2004)
- Live in Karaganda (2004)
- K&P / Vialka (split CD, Auris Media, 2006)
- K&P /IDM CD, Auris Media 2008
- The Craft Of Primitive Klezmer (2008)
- Noize 2005 (2011)
- Hidden Album (2012)
- Hidden Album Volume II (2015)
- HYMNS (2016)