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FROM THE HISTORY OF THE BAND 'OBLACHNY KRAY'. CHAPTER 17: EXILE FROM PARADISE. THE MAYAKOVSKY TRIBUTE
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FROM THE HISTORY OF THE BAND 'OBLACHNY KRAY'. CHAPTER 17: EXILE FROM PARADISE. THE MAYAKOVSKY TRIBUTE

A month passed. My wife got bored and asked to come visit me with our daughter. I reached out to Andrey. Having secured financial support, I found a room right in the city center, ...
12 min read 1006 #Oblachny Kray #Andrey Tropillo #2000s #Studio #History #Cover #Band history
FROM THE HISTORY OF THE BAND 'OBLACHNY KRAY'. CHAPTER 16: EXILE FROM PARADISE. A GREBENSHCHIKOV TRIBUTE
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FROM THE HISTORY OF THE BAND 'OBLACHNY KRAY'. CHAPTER 16: EXILE FROM PARADISE. A GREBENSHCHIKOV TRIBUTE

To be completely honest, when recounting the story behind the creation of our last album, it is impossible to ignore my relationship with alcohol. I see it as an integral part of t...
11 min read 968 #Oblachny Kray #Andrey Tropillo #Boris Grebenshchikov #Leningrad #2000s #Magnitizdat #Studio #History #Cover #Band history
FROM THE HISTORY OF THE BAND 'OBLACHNY KRAY'. CHAPTER 15: UNCLE MISHA IS ALIVE!
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FROM THE HISTORY OF THE BAND 'OBLACHNY KRAY'. CHAPTER 15: UNCLE MISHA IS ALIVE!

At the time, I was working as a staff sound engineer at ANtROP, and along with the other guys, I handled the bands that came in off the street. Tropillo would audition them sometim...
15 min read 927 #Oblachny Kray #Andrey Tropillo #Arkhangelsk #Leningrad #Studio #History #Band history
"Sergey Bogaev and His Clouds" Popular
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"Sergey Bogaev and His Clouds"

Music lovers from the late eighties have not forgotten this name. Sergey Bogaev, the leader of the band Oblachny Krai, stood at the forefront of the rock movement. Alas, this north...
7 min read 4390 #Oblachny Kray #Andrey Tropillo #Konstantin Kinchev #Arkhangelsk #Leningrad #Moscow #1980s #1990s #Rock #Concert #Studio #Memories #Ublyuzhya Dolya #Stremya i Lyudi
Oblachny Kray — Patriot — Anthropos, 2003. Popular
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Oblachny Kray — Patriot — Anthropos, 2003.

Believe it or not, Oblachny Krai was the first so-called Soviet rock band I ever heard in my life (not counting a tape of 'Radio Africa' in '84 in such terrible quality that I coul...
8 min read 3419 #Oblachny Kray #Andrey Tropillo #Arkhangelsk #Leningrad #1980s #1990s #2000s #Rock #Metal #Hard rock #Punk rock #Concert #Soviet rock #Magnitizdat #Stremya i Lyudi #Band history
Stremya and the People (Zvuki.Ru) Popular
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Stremya and the People (Zvuki.Ru)

One of the distinctive features of Arkhangelsk's Oblachny Krai was their ability to organically combine the melodious chanting of Russian folk songs with powerfully played hard roc...
14 min read 3173 #Oblachny Kray #Andrey Tropillo #Arkhangelsk #Leningrad #Moscow #Rock #Hard rock #Concert #Underground #Magnitizdat #Studio #Memories #Stremya i Lyudi #Composers' Union
Chapter 13: SHEVCHUK, KINCHEV's wives, and Sergey KUREKHIN Popular
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Chapter 13: SHEVCHUK, KINCHEV's wives, and Sergey KUREKHIN

One day, Yury Shevchuk came up with the idea to organize the "Open the Windows" festival. The event was planned to be, I would say, broad in scope, featuring a multitude of musicia...
16 min read 5687 #Andrey Tropillo #Konstantin Kinchev #Yuri Shevchuk #Sergey Kurekhin #Concert #Festival #Studio #Band history
Chapter 12, Part 2: Seryoga's Birthday
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Chapter 12, Part 2: Seryoga's Birthday

In early June 1995, Olya really bailed me out, saving me from absolute stagnation. During those days, Tropillo was supposed to go to France and Germany for two weeks on some import...
23 min read 2498 #Andrey Tropillo #Olga Pershina #Arkhangelsk #1990s #Rock #Studio #Band history
Chapter 12, Part 1: Olga Pershina Popular
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Chapter 12, Part 1: Olga Pershina

In 1993, Olga Pershina began appearing at the studio more and more frequently. She was a legendary lady from the very heart of Leningrad's rock-n-roll scene, which by that time had...
19 min read 3447 #Andrey Tropillo #Boris Grebenshchikov #Olga Pershina #Leningrad #1980s #1990s #Rock #Concert #Soviet rock #Studio #Band history
Chapter 11, Part 2: “Novaya Zemlya”
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Chapter 11, Part 2: “Novaya Zemlya”

Many events have happened during this time, I have met many people, many secrets have been revealed, but I will proceed in order, since this narrative format has already been estab...
22 min read 2327 #Andrey Tropillo #Arkhangelsk #Leningrad #1990s #Studio #Band history
Chapter 11, Part 1: The Witch
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Chapter 11, Part 1: The Witch

After losing Andrey, I simply couldn't find my place. Any endeavor was in vain, any process led to a drinking session, turning my life into one massive, endless bender with no visi...
15 min read 2337 #Andrey Tropillo #Studio #Band history
Chapter 10, Part 3: "Seryozha, he's gone..."
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Chapter 10, Part 3: "Seryozha, he's gone..."

My wife, Lena, met me, holding our infant daughter, Polina, in her arms. We gave ourselves over to marital bliss and didn't even notice how a couple of days had flown by. We turn o...
23 min read 2389 #Andrey Tropillo #Arkhangelsk #Leningrad #Moscow #1990s #Vinyl #Band history
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