Kolibri

An spectacular outgrowth from the Leningrad Rock and roll Membership, Kolibri flourished on the crossroads of two cultural eras, charming hard rock-calloused viewers using their vocal harmonies and womanly wiles. Led by eccentric diva Natalya Pivovarova (previously of Sergei Kuryohin’s group Pop-Mehanika [Pop Auto mechanic]), they sang their missing melodies within the documented instrumental monitors of various other St. Petersburg music artists. With their foot in several stylistic camps including brand-new wave, art rock and roll, Russian chanson, cabaret, and ’60s Soviet film music, Kolibri hardly ever relinquished creative control with their musical collaborators, priming the picture for additional autonomous ladies rockers from the post-Soviet period. A lady vocal septet, Kolibri 1st graced the stage on March 8, 1988. This overall performance, originally conceived like a one-time just event, occurred in the Leningrad Rock and roll Club’s special event of International Women’s Day time. However the all-female format, spearheaded by ambitious vocalist Pivovarova, gained interest in the boy’s golf club of Russian rock and roll, as well as the group continuing to execute sporadically. Not really until 1990 do the group actually get severe. Seven ladies became five: Natalya Pivovarova, Elena Udanova, Inna Volkova, Olga Feshenko, and Irina Sharovatova. The instrumental songs for his or her 1991 debut, Manera Povedeniya (Design of Carry out), were created and documented with the involvement of users of essential St. Petersburg rock and roll organizations like Televizor (Tv) and Akvarium (Aquarium). Performing over these documented instrumentals, the users of the group started to tour Russia and European countries. Like additional experimental collectives from the period (Zvuki My and Auktyon, for instance), Kolibri asserted their non-conformity with theatrical stage antics and costuming, within their case similar black ballet clothes and shaded gloves. The record was re-released on vinyl with the Russian label FeeLee, and afterwards appeared in america aswell. In this era, Olga Feshenko remaining the group, and a film, Kolibri v Parizhe I Doma (Kolibri in Paris and in the home) was produced documenting the group’s shows. Kolibri’s second recording, Malenkie Tragedii (Little Tragedies), was created by using studio room musician Yuri Sobolevym and guitarist Alesandr Gnatuk. Beginning in 1994, tunes from the recording found their method onto the air hit parade, specifically “Zheltiy List Oceniy” (Yellowish Leaf of Fall months), compiled by Elena Udanova. The same yr they documented Naiydi Desyat Otlichiy (Discover Ten Variations), widely regarded as their best recording. This time around they received instrumental support from Vyacheslav Koshelev and drummer Igor Cheridnik of the group Prepinaki, aswell as from Aleksandr Belyaev of Televizor and Nautilus Pompilius. Another popular Petersburg musician created the recording: Andei Muratov, who was simply after that playing keyboards for DDT. In 1995, movie director Evgeniy Mitrofanov shot an award-winning music video for Kolibri’s music “Volna” (Influx), while 2 yrs later on, 1997’s Bez Sahara (Without Sugars) was a mixed effort with the favorite Petersburg collective Tequila Jazz, who also became a member of the four women on-stage in Kolibri’s 1st overall performance using live instrumentation. In 1998 Kolibri required component in another film task, Alkesandr Bashirov’s Zheleznaya Pyata Oligarchy (The Iron Back heel of Communism), which received prizes at many international film celebrations. The same yr the group dropped its charismatic head, Natalya Pivovarova, who struck from her very own with a fresh group, Sous (Sauce), aswell as several making gigs. Today whittled right down to a trio, Kolibri had taken on a set of man music artists: Andrei Gradovich (electric guitar) and Oleg Emirov (keyboards). Many had been quick to create off their initiatives after Pivovarova’s departure, however the group continuing to create and record because of a new agreement with Real Information, also to perform each year at Sergei Kuryohin’s experimental music celebration, SKIF.