Avia is a band based on a rock bandEighties "Strange games." As the band members themselves say, it was fun for them, leaving politics, to get carried away and carry the vanguard of the twenties to the masses. No parody or distortion of reality of that time. The Soviet period was considered in the songs of the performers with a certain amount of irony and respect.
Rock or something else?
"Avia" is a rock band with an interesting name.From the words present in it, only the first letters are taken. In fact, the name of the group is an abbreviation. If you take it and decipher it, it literally means the following:
- A - anti;
- In - vocal;
- And - instrumental;
- A is an ensemble.
Original, unlike anything that happened inperforming ensemble culture to this group. According to the comments of many fans of the St. Petersburg collective, it was precisely because of their non-standard attitude to the repertoire that the group became fond of many listeners.
How did the band's birth take place?
Three participants from the Leningrad rock band,Gusev, Rakhov and Kondrashkin, in the fall of 1985 decided to create their own program and begin to speak separately. From this moment the history of the group "Avia" began. In the House of Culture of the city Leningrad she showed the audience a newprogram-composition. In the future, this work will form the basis of the band's first album. On stage, the musicians ran from one instrument located in a certain place to another. And that it does not look at least weird, all the actions on the stage were carefully painted and discussed. There are not many musicians, there are many instruments. Therefore, the staff of Avia immediately began to look for a way out. The group was replenished with new members. In her ranks joined the vocalist, who played on the trumpet and guitar, two saxophonists. Added artist and showman.
The composition of the group "Avia" has now become complete,versatile. The program included pantomime sketches, elements of sports figures that were fashionable in the early Soviet period. The participants read poems, danced, and acrobatics. Avia is a group that was a dead end to many music critics. They found it difficult to determine whether they belonged to a particular style. Musicians were not worth playing at the concert marching music and rock compositions.
The collective receives universal recognition
Almost immediately after its creation, six months later,the group at the festival of the same rock bands becomes a laureate. And two participants are recognized as the best instrumentalists. For the young team, this was a real triumph. From that moment, luck began to accompany all its members. 1987 - received the prize of the festival "Rock Panorama-87", 1988 - recorded an album at the well-known in Soviet times firm "Melody". Tours in Finland and Yugoslavia were held. "Avia" - a group that received permission to broadcast the Central Television. Three of her songs were heard by a massive Soviet audience.
In 1988, the group experienced changes in the composition.Having created his own theater, the saxophonist leaves Avia. But the team has already gained fame, so the group that left the band, Anton Adasinsky, was replaced by two talented musicians. A year and a half passed, and the team began talking about a new program. The musicians choose a patriotic name for their new speech, which mentions the Great October Socialist Revolution. Touring, a new album released in the UK, received four stars, another change in the composition of the team - all this boisterous series of events did not contribute to rallying, but, on the contrary, divided the group into separate elements. Nikolai Gusev began to study at his native studio with individual projects. Alexei Rakhov got a job as a DJ at the radio studio. Zhdanov determined that he was attracted by the ethnic direction in music and chose the group "SAMBHA." But four years after this separation, the group releases an album, which includes songs about love. This musical release turned out to be deeply lyrical.
Why do viewers like their songs?
Group "Avia" songs created and continues to write down newso original and interesting that it can not leave listeners absolutely indifferent to their work. Musicians either love, or do not accept absolutely, but always listen to make this choice. The members of the collective themselves have this, because each of them is an accomplished personality, a creative nature. None of the members of the group tolerates the same type of repetition of the same from the concert to the concert. They add zest to their next program, speaking to the most diverse audience.
About musicians
Alexei Rakhov, for example, when he joined the group, already hadexperience in music rock bands, received prizes for the best game on the saxophone. Gusev Nikolay has a musical education, technically he has keyboard instruments, he adds his vision to the compositions. Alexander Kondrashkin worked on the dancefloors of the suburbs of Leningrad, recorded albums with the famous band "Aquarium". Perfectly copes with percussion instruments and vocals. I tried myself, working with many collectives of rock musicians of the Soviet period.
Second birth
But the group exists at the moment,musicians give concerts in Petersburg and Moscow. Not so long ago, in 2012, the team was in the composition of the participants of the festival "Creation of the World." And there was their second birth on the anniversary of Rakhov Alexei. He invited everyone to his 50th birthday, and the musicians decided to perform together again. While there are four of them, but the real fans of this group will again be able to hear their favorite songs of rock performers.
