Auktyon

Auktyon
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 (Russian: АукцЫон, pronounced [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. 1 2 3 Beumers, Birgit (2005). Pop Culture Russia!. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO. ISBN 1-85109-459-8.
  2. Mitter, Siddhartha (24 March 2006). "By way of Russia, art-rock for art's sake." Boston Globe Boston, Massachusetts. pg. D.1
  3. 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
  4. Drozdowski, Ted (18 March 2008). "Auktyon - CD Reviews". The Phoenix. Archived from the original on 2012-10-14. Retrieved 2012-09-19.
  5. Horowitz, Steve (31 March 2008). "Auktyon: Girls Sing". PopMatters. Retrieved 2012-09-19.

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