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Rock Islands is a Soviet and Russian group performing works in the style of dance music and disco. It was created in the city of Vorsma, which today belongs to the Nizhny Novgorod region. It happened in 1986. Vladimir Zakharov is the leader of the group, the permanent author of music and the main vocalist.
Backstory
It all started with the fact that classmates gathered the school group "August". Vladimir Zakharov then became the bassist, Oleg Gorbunov became the vocalist and guitarist, Yuri Khapilov sat down at the drums, and Arkady Kozhevnikov took over the keyboards. To avoid analogy with the Leningrad group of the same name by Oleg Gusev, the guys took the name "Octavian August". The guys came up with the name "Rock Island" much later.
History
In 1986, members of the Rock Islands band performed for the first time at the Gorky Rock Festival. The musicians became laureates of this competition, having performed a program of ten compositions. This was followed by a performance at a gala concert. In 1987year, the team participated in a similar festival, but failed to repeat the previous success.
Members of the Rock Islands group began performing on the stage of the Red October club, as well as playing at dances and weddings. They recorded extensively, experimenting with different styles. There was a fashion for hard music, as a result of which the musicians released a metal album called "The Bell in My Heart".
The band didn't have a bass guitar then. Vladimir Zakharov played basses on keyboards. At the dances, songs were performed, which the musicians often learned just before they sang. In the same period, the group recorded a live album, but this work has not survived to this day.
In the period from 1989 to 1990, the band recorded several albums at once, relating to different styles. The works “Imbalance” and “Discotron” became dance, “Plundered Russia” is pop, the discs “Only the Sun” and “Shards of Blue Days” belong to the disco direction. In 1990, the albums "I am your pain" and "Ghost Time" were released.
Zakharov and Kutyanov worked on the first one, the whole group took part in the creation of the second one. In the fall of 1990, an order came to record a full-length album. Then they created the disc "Ours", work on which took place in the city of Gorky.
While working at the studio, Zakharov made an acquaintance with Oleg Razin, the latter at that time played and sang in a Gorky group called Weekend. In winter, Vladimir Zakharov recorded the album Contemplator on his own, and together with Kutyanov released the disc Alien Poems.
Rock Islands line-up
Vladimir Zakharov has been a vocalist, keyboardist, guitarist, songwriter and arranger since 1986. Egor Vorobyov, in addition to playing keyboards, has been the director of the band since 2006. Anatoly Gorbunov has been playing keyboards and percussion since 2010, earlier, in the period 1986 - 2010, he was a drummer.
Alexander Zhikol took over the guitar in 2016, and Dmitry Krylov took over the drums in 2010. Among the former members of the group: Alexander Kutyanov, Alexander Abrosimov, Oleg Razin, Igor Zakharov, Philip Shiyanovsky, Timofey Pisarev.
Discography
Members of the Rock Islands group released the following magnetic albums: “Future Day”, “Dance Night”, “Bell in My Heart”, “To You”, “Shards of Blue Days”, “Only the Sun”, “Stolen Russia”, “Discotron”, “Imbalance”, “I am your pain”, “Time of ghosts”, “Alien poems”, “Contemplator”, “Loneliness”, “Ours”, “I will always be with you”, “Return”, “Woe is not a problem.”
"Ice and Fire", "Eternal System", "Grace", "Your Game is Time", "Harlequin", "Fly, Laugh and Cry". Among the collections, we note the following: "The Best", "New Sound".
The "New Sound" series includes the following works: "Imbalance", "Contemplator", "To You", Also, the members of the Rock Islands group released the following video clips: “You love very much”, “Lilac”,Bonfires.
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