Red Wave: 4 Underground Bands from the USSR was a split double album released in 1986 and featuring Russian rock bands Aquarium , Kino , Alisa , and Strannye Igry (Strange Games), all from Leningrad . It was the first release of Russian rock music into the United States .
21-589: Joanna Stingray , who developed a friendly relationship with some of the most prominent Soviet underground rock band members upon her first visit to the Soviet Union, and Boris Grebenshchikov , the Aquarium frontman, are credited with the idea of releasing such an album in the West. The material for this compilation was recorded on a non-commercial basis by the four Leningrad bands and smuggled by Joanna Stingray to
42-517: A car accident in August 1990, Kino broke up after releasing their final album, consisting of songs that Tsoi and the group were working on in the months before his death. Kasparyan left the stage for several years and studied esotericism and philosophy . He worked with the art group Atrium-Alfavit by Sergey de Rocambole as a composer until 1999. He wrote music for a number of conceptual projects, such as Taranavtika and Artikulyatsiya . He also recorded
63-502: A children's music school in Pushkin . But after getting interested towards Western rock music , he preferred to play guitar . In the late 1970s, he played in various student band groups. In early 1983 he met Viktor Tsoi . Having become his main associate and close friend, he began to participate in rehearsals and recordings, and later became the lead guitarist of Kino until 1990. According to musician Boris Grebenshchikov , Kasparyan
84-453: A compilation of Akvarium songs, in 1987 and 1988. From albums Taboo , The Children of December and Radio Africa . All songs from the album Energy . From the albums Metamorphoses and Look at Them Both . The album was first released as a double LP on Big Time in 1986 containing 24 songs, six by each band. In 1987, the album was released in Europe as a single 14-track LP. The album
105-700: A documentary film about the life of Viktor Tsoi. On 20 June 1992, Stingray took part in the memorial concert for Viktor Tsoi held at Moscow's Luzhniki Stadium . She performed alongside Viktor Sologub [ ru ] (bass guitar, Strange Games), Valery Vinogradov [ ru ] (guitar, Center ) and Aleksandr Vasilyev (percussion, Center). Albums released in the United States: Russia-only releases: Singles: Compilation albums: Albums produced by Stingray: Yuri Kasparyan Yuri Dmitriyevich Kasparyan ( Russian : Ю́рий Дми́триевич Каспаря́н , born 24 June 1963)
126-614: A tourist with her sister, who was studying in London and had an opportunity to take a trip to visit the Soviet Union for one week. In Leningrad, she was introduced to Boris Grebenshchikov of the rock group Aquarium . Impressed by Grebenshchikov, and other artists' music, Stingray began smuggling the music of underground Soviet rock bands beyond the confines of the Soviet Union . On July 27, 1986, Australian record company Big Time Records , released Red Wave: 4 Underground Bands from
147-551: Is a Russian musician best known for his time as the guitarist of the Soviet rock band Kino and as a member of Vyacheslav Butusov's group U-Piter . Kasparyan was born on 24 June 1963 in Simferopol , to entomologist Dmitry Kasparyan, who was of Armenian origin, and biologist Irina Guslits, who was of Russian-Jewish origin. In 1964, his family moved to Leningrad , where he grew up. From 1970 to 1977, he studied cello at
168-544: The English-language version of the memoir, Red Wave: An American in the Soviet Music Underground , was released. Stingray married the guitarist from the band Kino, Yuri Kasparyan on November 2, 1987. Despite initial language barriers, their marriage lasted for four years until their divorce in 1991. Stingray does not cite the language barrier as the main reason behind the split, but rather
189-551: The Soviet Union , a double album consisting of songs collected and produced by Stingray. Each record side includes songs by one artist and the bands included are Aquarium, Kino , Alisa , and Strannye Igry (Strange Games). It was the first release of Russian rock music in the United States. The record caught the attention of popular western artists, among them David Bowie and Andy Warhol . The Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev also heard about it; surprised that this music
210-628: The US. Production and release was done by the Los Angeles-based indie label Big Time Records on June 27, 1986. Three of the four bands (Aquarium, Kino and Alisa) on this album have later become icons of the Russian rock movement and are still widely known and followed in Russia. Due to the success of Red Wave , the Soviet state label Melodiya released the albums Noch and Energiya , as well as
231-560: The band U-Piter . In 2005, a selection of Kino songs appeared in their repertoire. In December 2010, the first concert of the Simfonicheskoye Kino took place. In 2014, he was included in the Music category of Sobaka [ ru ] magazine's "Top 50 Most Famous People of St. Petersburg" list. On 26 February 2017, after its final Siberian-Ural tour, U-Piter formally disbanded. In the summer of 2017, Kasparyan founded
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#1732797923207252-476: The death of mutual close friend Viktor Tsoi . She said in an interview from 2021, "And when Victor died, both Yuri and I ... Everything just broke down in our lives. It was difficult to understand how to live, where my closest friend was... " The two parted as close friends, as there were no disagreements- it was just that their new lives began to head in different directions. The two even follow each other on Instagram, more than 30 years after they split. In 1991,
273-400: The friends she had met during that time. It wasn't until 2018 that Stingray discovered Facebook and with the help of her daughter Madison, she was finally able to reconnect with many of her Russian friends, including Grebenshchikov. In 2019, Madison helped her mother to write a two-volume memoir that described her experiences in the Soviet rock scene, published in Russian. In September 2020,
294-539: The instrumental album Klyuchi Drakona . He also experimented with combining conceptual format with rock and pop music. In 1997, Kasparyan, Vyacheslav Butusov , and their mentor Sergey de Rocambole recorded a joint album entitled NezakonNoRozhdenny AlKhimik doktor Faust – Pernaty Zmey [ ru ] . From 1999 to 2001, Kasparyan worked on the Zvezdnyy Ublyudok project with Butusov and Igor Tikhomirov. In September 2001, Kasparyan and Butusov founded
315-453: The members of the bands Novye Kompozitory [ ru ] and Kino, he recorded the album Start . In the late 1980s, along with Kino, he toured extensively within the republics of the USSR , as well as Europe and the United States. In autumn 1990, he was baptized and took the name 'George'. As of present, he only uses the name as a pseudonym . Following the death of Viktor Tsoi in
336-506: The same year as her divorce, saw Stingray's second marriage with Aleksandr Vasilyev, who was the drummer of the Russian band Center at the time. Vasilyev is the father of her daughter, Madison. As of 2021, Stingray is currently married to her third husband, Richard Best, an architect from California. They married sometime after her return to the United States in 1996. Stingray and Best live together in Los Angeles . As of 2004, Stingray
357-399: Was a key figure in popularizing Soviet and Russian rock music and culture in the West in the 1980s. Born Joanna Fields, Stingray is a native of Los Angeles , California. In 1983, Stingray released her U.S. 12-inch, 4-track debut, Beverly Hills Brat , under the name Joanna. In her early musical career, she performed at Studio 54 . In 1984, aged 23, Stingray traveled to Leningrad as
378-406: Was a poor guitar player initially, but he quickly progressed and eventually became the second most important member of Kino. From 1983 to the early 1990s, he took part in concerts and recordings, including music for films of the band Pop-Mechanics by Sergey Kuryokhin . From 1986 to 1989 he took part in performances and recordings of songs by Joanna Stingray . In the spring of 1987, together with
399-463: Was first officially released in Russia in 1991 on LP through SNC Records, containing the original US tracklist. 1994 saw the first and to date only CD release, also on SNC and omitting one track each by Kino, Akvarium and Strannye Igry. Joanna Stingray Joanna Stingray ( Russian : Джоанна Стингрей Dzhoanna Stingrey, [dʐɐˈanə sʲtʲɪnˈɡrɛj] , born Joanna Fields , 1960) is an American singer, actress, music producer and socialite. She
420-464: Was published by a foreign company, he instructed the Minister of Culture to ease the publication of music of young Soviet musicians inside the country. Stingray spent most of the decade living in Russia, where she worked variously as a musician, actress and television presenter before returning to the United States in 1996. After leaving Russia, she lost contact with her Russian "family" and many of
441-540: Was the executive director of the Beverly Hills High School Alumni Association. She spends her time working part-time as a real estate agent, enjoying a quiet life with her husband, and making music with Madison during her visits. In 1993 Joanna was cast in the film Freak (Russian: «Урод» ), directed by Roman Kachanov . In 1996 she collaborated with Aleksandr Lipnitsky to produce Sunny Days (Russian: «Солнечные дни» ),
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