ALISA
Alisa is a Russian hard rock band, who are credited as one of the most influential bands in the Russian rock movement. (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.
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