The pseudo-folk Georgian song, the title of which means ‘Small Bird’, is originally from the 1977 Soviet-era Russian/Georgian comedy-drama film ‘Mimino’ by Georgiy Daneliya, with the song having been written by Petre Gruzinsky. Much of the film is focused of the interaction between the Georgian and Armenian main characters, mirroring long-standing uneasy relations between the peoples of those countries.

Boney Nem was formed in 1993 by Kirill Nemolyaev, and were originally parodying some of the kitschiest of Russian pop music of the nineties by interpreting it in the eighties thrash/speed metal style — though pretty early on both their selection of songs and the musical prowess grew considerably.