Russia's Bob Dylan

Boris Grebenshikov (known in Russia as BG) prefers poetry to protest. He is still one of the most important figures in Russion rock. But recent events in the country have caused the singer a change of heart. As violence broke out in Ukraine in March, Boris Grebenshikov called a film crew to his St Petersburg studio. There, he held an emergency recording session for one of the new songs. “I feel how the shadows become thicker, the river’s on fire, but the bridges are up,” he sings, from behind his dark glasses, in the video he immediately posted for Love in the Time of War.

Window faces the sky, but there’s a dark spell on the house

     Morning is still far away

     That’s alright, we’ll wait.

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20141013-meet-the-bob-dylan-of-russia