ABOUT ME

Hi! We are Sasha and Lena. We are 28 (children's children). We both are keen on music and play together and solo. Now we are into making "lo-fi pop atmospherics", as the label ''Goaty Tapes'' described us in their review. Cassettes and small gigs, pictures from books for children, sometimes photography (with a broken Smena 8m), drawings (with a pencil) and video (with a shivering camera and fluffy toys). We are fond of travelling and laughing (silently).

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

travel and host and talk and play music together in a forest

Interests

soft sounds, gentle people, forests, villages, cooking, cycling, movies, music instruments, vinyl records and tapes, books, children's literature, folk dances

• books
• literature
• photography
• cooking
• movies
• traveling
• music
• cycling
• languages
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: french movies (Bertrand Blier, Eric Rohmer, François Truffaut, Louis Malle etc.), Woody Allen, Federico Fellini, Aki Kaurismäki, Luis Buñuel, Ingmar Bergman, czech movies (Jan Svankmajer, Milos Forman:60s), soviet movies of the 60's

Music: International music releases from Mississippi Records, Mississippi Records Tape Series, Novella Matveeva, pop music of the 60's, Dmitri Shostakovich, Morton Feldman, american primitive guitar, electroacoustic music, French chanson, classical music of India and China, garage and psychedelic rock of the 60's and 70's, Syd Barrett, outsider music, experimental music, world music, lo-fi

Books: old illustrated books for children, Witold Gombrowicz, Bruno Schulz, Robert Walser, Jerome Klapka Jerome,''Journey to Ixtlan'' by Carlos Castaneda, Samuil Marshak, Korney Chukovsky, audiobooks on literature, philosophy

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

here is our music to hear:
http://p-mm.bandcamp.com/album/pmm103-dva-zagorodnyh-doma-mir-10

Teach, Learn, Share

we can cook traditional Karelian pasties "kalitki" or a beet cake, talk some languages we nearly talk (like French), play music and play games together
we can teach you how to make a wallet out of a tetra-pack, as our friend David taught us somewhere in the mountains of Asturias

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Russian Federation