Urfin Juice

Shorter lived and much less prolific than various other Soviet sets of the so-called “golden period” of Russian rock and roll music, within their five-year lifestyle hard rock and roll ensemble Urfin Juice even now managed to keep an indelible tag for the Sverdlovsk picture. And also other north rings like Nautilus Pompilius, Chayf, and Nastia, Urfin Juice — who got their cues through the erudite globe of classical structure and poetry — significantly influenced the introduction of rock and roll music not merely at home however in the complete U.S.S.R. The music group happened in Dec of 1980, after bandleader Aleksandr Pantykin finished his involvement using the Sonans experimental music studio room, its name a pop tradition mention of Aleksandr Volkov’s well-known serialized novels using their power-hungry hero, Urfin Juice. The imaginative bass participant, keyboardist, and vocalist was became a member of by guitarist Yuriy Rink and drummer Ivan Savitzkiy, though Savitzkiy was quickly exchanged for traditional musician Aleksandr Plyacunov. Upon Urfin Juice’s 1st rehearsals, they received lyrical support from disk jockey Ilya Kormiltsev, who published practically all the group’s text messages. By July of 1981, Urfin Juice experienced already garnered several prizes at regional festivals, and increased to become among the town’s most well-known acts. But actually these early successes, in conjunction with the release from the band’s 1st recording, Puteshestvie (Voyage), weren’t plenty of to quell the disparity of opinion inside the group. The group users went their individual ways, departing Pantykin solely in charge of Urfin Juice’s long term. But a brief two months later on, Urfin Juice re-emerged with an extra kick from fresh guitarist Egor Belkin (husband to be and collaborator of popular feminine rocker Nastia Poleva). The start of 1982 noticed the group rehearsing and building materials for two forthcoming albums, united beneath the name 15 and released that summer time. These albums as well as the group’s shows gave proof a designated stylistic integration: at its basis was hard rock and roll with conspicuous affects from the world of traditional music, specially the Baroque and Neo-Romantic colleges. Their next recording was misleadingly entitled Zhizn v Stile ROCK (ROCK Way of life), its name even more an homage to lengthy locks and stone-washed denim jeans than a sign from the group’s creative leanings. The recording, released in 1985, was determined, controlled, and numerical, a long way off from your unruly rock sound. However the 1985 record and its following live shows were fulfilled with just a lukewarm reception, and Pantykin attemptedto revive the group with several lineup changes, non-e of them extremely effective. The bandleader begun to go after other tasks, and by 1986 the group got disappeared through the radar, though no standard declaration of dissolution was produced. Belkin continued to a successful profession with several Sverdlovsk and Leningrad ensembles, including Chayf and Nautilus Pompilius.