AKVARIUM
Akvarium (“Aquarium”) is a Russian rock group formed in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg), Russia in 1972. The band had many member changes over its 40-year history, and at the end the only remaining original member was lead singer and founder Boris Grebenshikov. Former band members have included Anatoly Gunitsky, Dyusha Romanov, Sergey Kuryokhin, and Vsevolod Gackel. (More from Wikipedia)
It didn’t stay that way though; harder rocking Russian rock bands began releasing albums more openly by the 1980’s, and some were available in this country as well. The above double-LP album, Red Wave (1986) featured an album side each of music from four hard rock bands from Leningrad: Akvarium (“Aquarium”), Strannye Igry (“Strange Games”), Alisa, and Kino (“Cinema”). At one of the three World’s Fairs that we went to in the 1980’s – probably the Expo 86 in Vancouver, B.C. – the pavilion for the Soviet Union had a section where some of this rock music could be heard.
(April 2015/1)
