Vezhlivy Otkaz

In the mid-’80s, the experimental rock and roll group Vezhlivy Otkaz (which results in British as Polite Refusal) performed a hefty part in the forming of a music counterculture, artfully opposing not merely the state-sanctioned mainstream, but ubiquitous “underground” rock and roll that defined itself primarily with what it was not really. The Moscow collective was shaped by engineering college students including keyboardist Pyotr Pavlinsky, guitarist Roman Suslov, bassist Dmitry Shumilov, and drummer Mikhail Mitin, with Akradiy Semyonov offering as poet and showman for the group. Through the preliminary records of their debut efficiency at Moscow’s Institute of Atomic Energy, Vezhlivy Otkaz, using their ironic text messages and pseudo-classical and jazz preparations, dodged the “heroic groundbreaking” archetypes from the ’80s Soviet rock and roll movement. In both years that adopted, they played around Moscow at college student parties and home gatherings referred to as kvartirniki. They documented their initial cassette tape, Opera ’86, significant because of its piano intervals and Semyonov’s nearly operatic pipes, which appeared to parody rock and roll and well-known alternatives from the period. Pavlinsky still left the group in the a few months that implemented. In Dec of 1986, Vezhlivy Otkaz performed memorably at a party for Moscow’s state-subsidized Rock and roll Lab. They added hostility with their repertoire, Semyonov trumpeting his poetry over generating drumbeats as Gor Oranesyan brandished rotten meats at onlookers. Direct from the screaming pit, saxophonist Vladimir Dabydov agreed upon to play with the cheeky collective. For another 2 yrs they rode the independence influx of Perestroika, playing at concerts and celebrations, and taking part in film and visible art tasks. They removed showmen and saxophone through the group, exchanging them for pianist Maksim Trefan. Their last work from the Soviet years was 1988’s so-called Belaya Plastinka (The Light Record), released for the condition Melodiya label and offering over 125,000 copies. After 1989, Vezhlivy Otkaz trimmed the fats, leaving just a core band of music artists piloted by frontman Roman Suslov. Their 1990 Cultural Experiences record shrugged off lyrics and only non-sensical linguistic phonemes, dissociating the music group from its previous poetic-theatrical ethos. The recently inarticulate Vezhlivy Otkaz toured European countries until the collapse from the U.S.S.R., when curiosity in all points Soviet weakened relatively. In 1992 the group resolved in Moscow, sliding on dark coattails and silk, and in three times documented its most detached and mannered recording to day, I-I-Raz (Head to It). From 1995, the music group slowed its musical efficiency down, in 1997 liberating Koca ha Kamehb (Metal on Rock) and Geran (Germanium) in 2002. It had been another long wait around before group’s next launch, Gusi-Lebedi (Geese and Swans) found its way to April 2010 around the Zenith/Soyuz label, using the ensemble at this time comprising vocalist/guitarist/composer Suslov, bassist Shumilov, drummer Mitin, pianist Pavel Karmanov, violinist Sergey Ryzhenko, and trumpeter Andrey Solovyov. The recording was distributed beyond Russia from the Rock and roll in Opposition-informed Italian label AltrOck (and therefore obtainable through Internet-based music merchants such as for example Wayside Music), marking the recording as most likely the band’s most easily accessible launch for listeners world-wide to day. A luxurious repackaging of 1997’s Koca ha Kamehb — like the initial album plus Dvd and blu-ray and extensive historic liner records and photos — found its way to 2011 for the Geometry record label.