"Avia" - a group with a very long history and extraordinary creativity

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

"Avia" - a group created on the basis of the rock band of the eighties "Strange Games". As the members of the group themselves say, they had fun, moving away from politics, to get carried away and carry the avant-garde of the era of the twenties to the masses. No parody or distortion of the 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. Of the words present in it, only the first letters are taken. In fact, the name of the group is an abbreviation. If taken and deciphered, then literally it will mean the following:

• A - anti;
• B - vocal-;
• I – instrumental;
• A – ensemble.

Original, unlike anything that has happened in performing ensemble culture before this band. According to the comments of many fans of the St. Petersburg band, it was precisely with their non-standard attitude to the repertoire that the group fell in love with many listeners.

Howwas the band born?

Three participants from the Leningrad rock band, Gusev, Rakhov and Kondrashkin, in the fall of 1985 decided to create their own program and start performing separately. From that moment began the history of the Avia group. In the House of Culture of the city of Leningrad, she demonstrated to the audience a new composition program. In the future, this work will form the basis of the band's first album. On the stage, the musicians ran from one instrument located in a certain place to another. And so that it does not look at least strange, all the actions on the stage were carefully scheduled and discussed. There are few musicians, many instruments. Therefore, the Avia team began to urgently look for a way out. The group has replenished with new members. A vocalist who played the trumpet and guitar, two saxophonists joined its ranks. An artist and a showman have been added.

The composition of the Avia group has now become complete, diverse. The program included pantomimic studies, elements of sports figures that were fashionable in the early Soviet period. Members of the team read poetry, danced, did acrobatics. Avia is a group that baffled many music critics. They found it difficult to determine its belonging to a particular style. It cost nothing for the musicians to play marching music and rock songs at the concert.

The team 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 were recognized as the best instrumentalists. Foryoung team it was a real triumph. From that moment on, luck began to accompany all its members. 1987 - received the prize of the festival "Rock Panorama-87", 1988 - an album was recorded at the well-known in Soviet times firm "Melody". Tours took place in Finland and Yugoslavia. Avia is a group that has received permission to broadcast on Central Television. Three of her songs were heard by the mass Soviet audience.

In 1988, the group underwent a line-up change. Having created his own theater, the saxophonist leaves Avia. But the team has already gained fame, so Anton Adasinsky, who left the group, was replaced by two talented musicians at once. A year and a half passed, and the team started talking about a new program. The musicians choose a patriotic name for their new performance, in which they mention the Great October Socialist Revolution. Tours, a new album released in the UK, which received four stars, another change in the composition of the team - all this seething series of events did not contribute to unity in any way, but, on the contrary, broke the group into separate elements. Nikolai Gusev began to engage in individual projects at his native studio. Alexey Rakhov got a job at a radio studio as a DJ. Zhdanov determined that he was attracted to the ethnic direction in music and chose the SAMBHA group. But four years after such a stratification, the group releases an album that includes songs about love. This musical release turned out to be deeply lyrical.

Why do people like their songs?

Avia group songsshe created her own and continues to record new ones in such an original and interesting way that she cannot leave listeners absolutely indifferent to her work. Musicians are either loved or not accepted absolutely, but they always listen to make this choice. The members of the team 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, repetitions of the same from concert to concert. They add zest to their next program, performing in front of a wide variety of audiences.

About musicians

Alexey Rakhov, for example, having joined the group, already had experience in rock music bands, received prizes for the best saxophone playing. Gusev Nikolai has a musical education, skillfully owns keyboard instruments, adds his vision to the compositions. Alexander Kondrashkin worked on dance floors in the suburbs of Leningrad, recorded albums with the famous Aquarium group. Perfectly copes with percussion instruments and vocals. I tried myself working with many groups of rock musicians of the Soviet period.

Rebirth

But the group still exists, the musicians give concerts in St. Petersburg and Moscow. Not so long ago, in 2012, the team was part of the participants in the Creation of the World festival. And their second birth took place on the anniversary of Rakhov Alexei. He invited everyone to his fiftieth birthday, and the musicians decided to perform together again. While there are four of them, but the real fans of thisbands will once again be able to hear their favorite rock songs.