Melodiya has released the first album of Nastasia Khrushcheva, a contemporary composer, pianist and philosopher from St. Petersburg. The Book of Grieg and Joy, Trio in Memory of a Non-Great Artist, Russian Dead-Ends 3 – the provocatively titled works are performed by the composer and OpensoundOrchestra. What is metamodernism? According to Nastasia Khrushcheva, the author of the book Metamodernism in Music and Around It (2020), this is a kind of 'ideology of normality' that has come to replace the madness of the 20th century in the 21st century. 'In the artistic ‘universe’ described by her, shards of high romantic culture and memes from the web, nostalgia for the ‘lost paradise’ and the pleasure of new-made sentimental beauty organically coexist,' musicologist Sergei Uvarov writes.