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Photo no.3 of Boris Grebenshchikov and his band
Aquarium in Dortmund.
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History..continued:
Perestroika has ushered in a new era of opportunity for
rock musicians; several of the more prominent ones got
breaks in the West. BG's came from Dave Stewart (of
Eurythmics). Stewart-produced "Radio Silence" was
released in 1989, featuring covers of Alexander
Vertinsky's "China" amid songs by BG, including a song
written to Sir Thomas Malory's "Death of King Arthur".
Annie Lennox and Chrissie Hynde helped out, as did
several of BG's bandmates from Aquarium.
The name of the album proved self-ironic in the extreme
as it hasn't made so much as a dent in the charts.
Part of the failure can be attributed to the fact that
unlike the Anglo-American rock-n-roll culture, the
Russian song tradition heavily emphasizes lyrical
complexity over hooks or drive, which reinforces the
not entirely fair comparisons between BG and Dylan.
BG issued another English-language album, "Radio
London", in 1990, which consisted of demos, but had
some very appealing material to it.
Disillusioned in the possibility of exporting the
Russian song-writing tradition to the West, BG returned
to Russia and entered a phase of returning to his
Russian roots. The year 1991 saw him come out with a
"Russian album" (Russkiy al'bom), backed by an all-new,
eponymous BG Band. The album featured a line-up of
songs very "Russian" in both lyric and tune, and wasn't
initially met with much public appreciation (in
retrospect, however, it is considered by most critics
one of his best records). BG was defiant, however, and
went on record as having flipped a bird off the stage
toward someone yelling demands for him to perform songs
from the Classical period. His career since has proved
time and again that he is not fond of rehashing the
past, however glorious.
No matter the defiance, the Aquarium brand was too
strong to eschew and even the next two albums, one
mostly filler ("Favorite songs of Ramses the 4th"
(Lyubimye pesni Ramzesa IV)) and one all B-sides
("Sands of St. Petersburg" (Peski Peterburga)), were
released under the name Aquarium. By the time of 1994's
"Kostroma Mon Amour" BG's mastery of folk melody and
lyric has grown to new heights, and a new band lineup
was going full steam.
The band's next three albums (effectively BG's solo
albums published under the band's brand) - "Navigator",
"Snow lion" (Snezhniy lev), and "Hyperborea" - also
have a stylized Russian feel. Navigator especially is
widely recognized as a classic example of Russian
songwriting, albeit with notable touches of blues and
French chanson. The songs are melancholic bordering on
heart-rending; the lyrics are either drenched in
Byronic spleen, or full of BG-branded variant of
Russian irony steeped in a sense of separation between
self and the world.
[from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Grebenshchikov]
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Here are No.2 and No.1.
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