Ziferblat severs ties with creative team after National Selection

The band Ziferblat, which took part in the National Selection for Eurovision, unexpectedly ended its collaboration with the creative team responsible for its visual style. This was revealed by the group's stylist Oleg-Rodion Shurigin-Grekalov in the podcast «СучЦукрМуз» (SukhTukrMuz).

According to him, the decision to end the joint work was made by the label — and it was carried out, to put it mildly, in a rather incorrect manner.

«Никакой внятной коммуникации не было» (There was no coherent communication whatsoever)

The stylist noted that neither he nor the group's music video director Ilya Dutsyk, with whom he had been collaborating, were given an explanation for the split. In his view, the creative team was simply "pushed aside" after the National Selection concluded, and this was accompanied by complete silence from the label.

«С лейбла была очень странная реакция. Именно с креативной командой они поступили не очень красиво. И до сих пор никакой адекватной коммуникации не произошло» (The reaction from the label was very strange. They treated the creative team particularly unkindly. And to this day, no adequate communication has taken place), Shurigin-Grekalov stated.

Video after video: who created Ziferblat's visual image

It was this creative team that stood behind the visual design of the group's key music videos: «Земля» (Zemlya), «Place I Call Home», «Bird of Pray» and others. The stylist and director built the collective's image over several projects — until the label unexpectedly changed course.

National Selection without major scandals? It still happened

Although this year's National Selection passed relatively calmly and without bright scandals on live broadcast, the story with Ziferblat shows that passions are boiling just as intensely behind the scenes. It is just that instead of open conflicts, there is subtle and not always honest "backroom dealing".