Auktyon
| Auktyon | |
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| Background information | |
| Origin | Leningrad, USSR (now Saint Petersburg, Russia) |
| Genres | Art rock, art punk, jazz rock, folk rock, freak folk, post-punk, experimental rock, psychedelic rock |
| Years active | 1978 - present |
| Website | http://www.auktyon.ru/ |
| Members |
Leonid Fyodorov Oleg Garkusha Viktor Bondarik Dmitriy Ozyorski Nikolai Rubanov Boris Shaveinikov Mikhail Kolovski Vladimir Volkov Yuri Parfyonov |
Auktyon or АукцЫон (Russian pronunciation: [ɐʊktsɨˈon]) is a Russian art rock band from Saint Petersburg.
The band was founded by Leonid Fyodorov and Oleg Garkusha at the Polytechnic Institute of Leningrad.[1] Though they originally played post-punk and new wave, the group came to be influenced by European and Central Asian folk music, avant-garde jazz, the poetry of Russian futurist Velimir Khlebnikov, and aspects of Russian high culture and literature.[1]
Auktyon was particularly popular from 1987 through 1995, but became less active in the late 1990s when Fyodorov began to produce records for Leningrad.[1] The group continues to play together and to release new albums. They toured the United States in 2006[2] in support of their first US release, the album Pioneer. The group returned to the US in 2008 when they released the album Girls Sing.[3][4][5]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Beumers, Birgit (2005). Pop Culture Russia!. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO. ISBN 1-85109-459-8.
- ↑ Mitter, Siddhartha (24 March 2006). "By way of Russia, art-rock for art's sake." Boston Globe Boston, Massachusetts. pg. D.1
- ↑ Vigil, Delfin (27 March 2008). "Auktyon. Eclectic band formed in the former Soviet Union and, 20 years later, strange, loud rock plays a key role in the group's musical stylings." San Francisco Chronicle. San Francisco, California. pg. G.4
- ↑ Drozdowski, Ted (18 March 2008). "Auktyon - CD Reviews". The Phoenix. Retrieved 2012-09-19.
- ↑ Horowitz, Steve (31 March 2008). "Auktyon: Girls Sing". PopMatters. Retrieved 2012-09-19.