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The Nothingdoers are a music duo formed in Moscow, Russia in August 2004. The band consists of Igor Evanowe and George Manaev, who met while working on a pear tree plantation. The Nothingdoers are known for their soft, delicate sound, imaginative lyrics, George's early morning obscene language and Evanowe's mysterious everchanging haircut.
Beginning their discography with an acoustic guitar album "The Unplugged Room Of Killed Time" (2004), recorded during six days of sunny August while traveling through Russian countryside and drinking in Moscow suburbs, the band later moved on to fully electric lo-fi sound of their second record, "Tonight" (2005), which came to be their first DIY release, issued in 60 copies. During the next three years, Igor and George were part of some other bands performing postpunk, indie-pop and downtempo. Having ruined the short lives of these ill-fated music acts, The Nothingdoers got together to record their third album, "Twenty Past Sixteen" (2008), which took them almost a year of sporadic recording sessions at their and their friends' houses, dormitories, Moscow subway and even sewer system (the tense atmosphere of those uneasy times is fully reflected in the dramatic post-rock symphony "Things We Should Forget"). On their new album, The Nothingdoers are successfully working out music in such complicated and promising styles as lo-core, asd-fi and postpost, presenting brand new 11 tracks about buttons, plugs, refrigerators, cold beer, hats, jackets and other poetic crap.
Starting as two-guitar act, The Nothingdoers later went on to do their songs in full-band arrangement, with Evanowe playing various keyboards and synthesizers and Manaev taking up bass guitar (after only a year of practice, George went up as high as 2nd place in the famous "Dumbest-Looking Bass Player of the Year - 2007" contest). All the lyrics are written by Manaev, also some of them he claims to have written while being drunk and asleep.
The Nothingdoers are very superstitious and nervous people, and that is why they have had only a few gigs. The rare Drummerophobia disease prevents them from playing with most drummers, and also they refuse to do anything before (or sometimes after) the mysterious 16:20 time point. The band records their songs at home, using cheap portable equipment, carried mainly by George Manaev, who has gotten a spinal curvature from carrying enormous bags full of heavy Chinese soundcards and giant solid led Soviet mics, on which he'd wasted a two months' salary.
The Nothingdoers are signed to an very-deep-below-under-under-ground DIY label "Electricoal Records", co-owned by a successful IT engineer H. Johnson and prolific historian and poet G. Manson.
Series Two Records released a new 5 CD compilation album. Read more information here Full Track listing The compilation 5 CD set features 118 artists and 390 minutes of music. The Compilations feature artists from all over the world including bands from (12) states of USA, Sweden, United Kingdom, France, Denmark, Norway, Peru, Argentina, Spain, Costa Rica, Australia, Taiwan, Australia, Japan, Indonesia,New Zealand, Serbia, China, Canada, Germany, Russia, Switzerland and Philippines.
