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..i guess this will be a "low point week" *g*
as i have decided to show more of saturday´s concert of
Boris Grebenshchikov and his band
Aquarium in Dortmund for the next couple days as
more photos turned out nicer than i had expected.
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more of BG-history:
The first six years of Aquarium's history lacked
cohesion as Grebenshchikov and his various bandmates
followed the Soviet equivalent of the hippie lifestyle:
playing apartment jams, drinking the low-quality port
wine available from the Soviet stores of the time, and
intermittently travelling to remote gigs, even
hitchhiking on rail freight cars.
Youthful philandering was heavily frowned upon by the
Communist Party regime; decent recording facilities
were out of reach because experiments in
non-standardized self-expression were routinely
suppressed as a matter of policy. The several homebrew
2-track recordings hacked out over those years
("Temptation of St. Aquarium" (Iskushenie Svyatogo
Akvariuma), "Count Diffusor's Fables" (Pritchi grafa
Diffuzora), "Menuet for a Farmer" (Menuet
zemledel'tzu), and a motley crew of "singles") were of
necessity extremely unprofessional, but already
showcased the off-kilter wit, showy erudition, and a
pervasive interest in Oriental thought and mysticism
that eventually became BG's trademarks.
The year 1976 also saw the recording of BG's first solo
album, "On the Other Side of the Mirror Glass" (S toy
storony zerkal'nogo stekla), and a duo album with
another prominent nascent Russian rock-n-roller, Mike
Naumenko (web site in Russian), "All Brothers -
Sisters" (Vse brat'ya - sestry).
BG's big break came in 1980, when Artem Troitzky, the
first public Russian rock critic and the enabling
figure in many a Russian rock musician's carrier,
invited Aquarium to perform at the Tbilisi Rock Festival.
The festival was a state-sanctioned attempt to channel
the then-burgeoning Russian rock music movement into a
controllable ideological vessel. It featured a
laundered line-up of government-approved rock bands,
but also Kraftwerk, whose performance was accompanied
by frisbees being launched into the public. Members of
the jury (the occasion was officially an artistic
contest) were not amused. A covert KGB-bound report
pinned the shennanigans on Aquarium, which caused BG to
lose his day job at a backwater design bureau (of a
kind that employed the majority of technical specialty
graduates in the Soviet Union; Russians called them
"P.O. Box" (pochtoviy yaschik) because their street
addresses were never revealed), and membership in
Komsomol, the Young Communist League, which was a
career kiss of death for a Soviet citizen in 1980.
The band's underground profile, however, had continued
to rise sharply over the next 7 years, post-Brezhnev
KGB-fueled reactionism and Gorbachev's perestroika
notwithstanding. This was both due to talent, and the
scarcity of supply - Western rock music was still
officially banned at the time. Over the first five
albums, the band attracted guitarist Alexander Lyapin,
considered to be among the best rock guitar players of
Russian origin, the pianist Sergey Kuryokhin, renowned
for the impressive speed and virtuosity of his playing
and boundless avant-garde experimentation, and Igor
Butman, a world-class jazz saxophone player and one of
the reigning kings of Russian jazz.
[from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Grebenshchikov]
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