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*Guitar solo*
...photo no.5 of Boris Grebenshchikov and his band Aquarium in Dortmund.
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Worth noting:
BG has virtually always been able to skillfully combine
his interests into a cohesive, if highly eclectic,
whole. His lyrics can and often do feature Hinduism,
Russian Orthodoxy, and drug use in the same quatrain.
The ability has only grown stronger over the years.
1999's "Psi" switches from detailed references to
samurai culture to mentions of a certain carpenter's
son to data storage on hard drives, all the while
maintaining tight lyrical cohesion.
His output has been rather prolific. Over the 30+ years
of his career he wrote 500+ songs, most of which were
recorded and/or performed publicly. At this point
Aquarium has 21 albums in the official discography,
approximately 12 "unofficial ones", and about as many
live records. Additionally, BG recorded cover albums on
material from the two most prominent Russian-language
songwriters -- Alexander Vertinsky (1994's "Songs of
A.Vertinsky" (Pesni A.Vertinskogo)) and Bulat Okudzhava
(1999's "Songs of B.Okudzhava" (Pesni B.Okudzhavy))
--, two albums of mantra music with Gabrielle Roth and
the Mirrors, (1998's "Refuge" and 2002's "Bardo"), and
an album of electronica versions of Aquarium songs from
late 1970s - early 1980s with the Russian duo
Deadushki. Which left him time to be credited on
records by big-in-Russia bands Nautilus Pompilius,
Mashina Vremeni and Kino, as well as the UK acts
Shakespears Sister and Kate St. John. This list is not
exhaustive, either.
BG is also known as a student of religion and
mysticism. He translated several Hinduist and Buddhist
books for publication in Russian, travelled the Orient
widely, and is friends with A-list spiritual
celebrities. He is just as familiar with the Russian
Orthodox tradition (Aquarium web site has had a call
for discovery of Orthodox relics going for years), and
used to mix them freely in his lyrics. "Russian
Nirvana" (Russkaya Nirvana) off "Kostroma mon amour",
for example, is a dual-pointed send-up containing a
reference to "sitting down in the lotus posture in the
middle of Kremlin". His relentless promotion of Tibetan
buddhism in the 1990s and his tendency to use
buddhist-derived logic with touches of absurdism to
avoid answering questions in interviews make him pretty
distinct amongst other Russian artists.
BG also translated several Buddhist and Hinduist texts
to Russian.
[from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Grebenshchikov]
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Here are No.1, No.2, No.3 and No.4.
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