Lubeh
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Lubeh (Любэ) is a pop band from Russia, whose music harmoniously combines elements of Western rock and roll, traditional Russian folk music, military bard music, and even some attempts at rapping. Starting in 1989 with their first release, they have released 13 albums inside of Russia. It is the only Russian act whose concerts have been attended by the President Putin during his time in office.
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[edit] The group
The band itself has 6 members, led by the singer Nikolay Rastorguev, one of the People's Artists of Russia. Their songs have been written and produced by Igor Matvienko, one of the top producers of Russian pop music. In the mid-1990s, the band surprisingly released an album of the Beatles covers. Their latest album, Rasseya, was released in 2004 and it included a remake of one of their older songs and a rock and roll rendition of the Hymn of the Russian Federation. Lubeh has only produced one English language song, called No More Barricades, which sings about Russian democracy.
Lubeh is one of the few rock and roll groups whose audience garners a wide listening audience. Concert goers are usually of any age, including seniors, teenagers, children and their parents.
[edit] Notable songs
- Atas! - a song about 1920s cops and criminals, which became a hit and made the band famous in 1991
- Bat'ka Mahno - a song on the anarchist Nestor Makhno was made twice, put in three albums
- Ne valyai duraka, Amerika! - a song about Alaska's purchase by the U.S.
- Gimn Rossii - Russian anthem (гимн России)
- Kombat - one of many songs inspired by Lubeh's experiences in Chechnya, where they performed on many occasions, in order to boost the morale of the Russian army
- Ty nesi menya reka... - the most popular of Lubeh's many themes to Russian TV series
- Beryozy - a theme from the 2003 TV series Uchastok, used on two albums
- Davay za - theme from the 'spetsnaz' TV miniseries
[edit] Albums released
- Atas (1989)
- Kto skazal, chto mi ploho zhili? (Who said that we lived poorly?) (1992)
- Zona Lubeh (Lubeh Zone) (1993)
- Kombat (Battalion Commander) (1996)
- Sobranie sochineniy, Vol.1 (Collection of Songs, Vol.1) (1996)
- Pesni o lyudyakh (Songs about People) (1997)
- Iz koncertnoy programmi "Pesni o lyudyah" (From the concert program "Songs about people") (1998, two disk, concert)
- Polustanochki (Half-stations) (2000)
- Sobranie sochineniy, Vol.2 (Collection of Songs, Vol.2) (2001)
- Davay za... (Let's have it for...) (2002)
- Yubilej. Luchshiye Pesni. (Anniversary. Best Songs.) (2002, two disk, concert)
- Rebyata nashevo polka (Guys of our Regiment) (2004)
- Rasseya (Russia) (2005)
