Urfin Juice group and its leader

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Urfin Juice is a rock band that comes from Sverdlovsk. It was formed in 1980, in December. The team is named after one of the main characters in Volkov's book Urfin Deuce and His Wooden Soldiers. There was also a version that the name of the group comes from the transcription of the phrase "Jewish Orphans". The author of the texts is Ilya Kormiltsev. Alexander Korotich is the artist who designed all the band's magnetic albums.

History

This group worked in the styles of art-rock, post-punk, progressive and avant-prog. It was created by Alexander Pantykin and Ivan Savitsky, who left Sonans. The first took over vocals, keyboards and bass, the second - drums. This Soviet rock band was supplemented by Yuri Bogatikov (stage name - "Rink"), who played the guitar. In the spring of 1981, the band changed their drummer. Alexander Plyasunov replaced Savitsky. The latter previously played in philharmonic bands. April 1 of the same year the teamdebuted in the large hall of the Polytechnic Institute.

Music

Urfin Juice took part in the first Sverdlovsk rock festival, which was organized on the initiative of the Komsomol Institute of Architecture. The team won the main jury prize. After recording the first album called Journey, Pantykin invited new musicians. Yuri Bogatikov and Plyasunov left, Vladimir Nazimov and Igor Belkin appeared. The group "Urfin Juice" in this composition recorded two albums. Further, at the suggestion of Kormiltsev and Belkin, in 1984 it united into a single team with the then little-known Nautilus Pompilius. The musicians helped Belkin to record his solo album called "Near the Radio". In 1986, the team was again divided into new projects "Nastya" and "Nautilus". The former musicians of the Urfin Juice group left for the first one, and Belkin became their leader.

The team has never been particularly famous. At the same time, the group was included in the list of "Legends of Russian Rock". However, it fell apart before the colossal procession of rock music across the territory of the USSR, which took place in the late 1980s. At the same time, the musical style of the project influenced the activities of the creative representatives of Sverdlovsk.

Discography

The group "Urfin Juice" in 1981 recorded the album "Journey". In 1982, the work "15" was published. In 1984, "Heavy Metal Life" appeared. In 1987, the disc "5 Minutes of Heaven" was created. Among the live albums, it should be noted "Some Questions Concerning Us" and"Legends of Russian rock".

Leader

Alexander Pantykin is one of the founders of the group described above, so let's talk about him in more detail. He was born in 1958 in Russia in the city of Sverdlovsk, which is now called Yekaterinburg. We are talking about a Russian composer and playwright. He is the founder of a new direction of musical theater - "light opera". He holds the post of chairman of the Union of Composers in the Sverdlovsk region. Academician "Niki". Member of the Union of Composers of Russia. Recognized as an Honored Art Worker of the Russian Federation. Laureate of the theater award called "Golden Mask". Received a prize at the international competition of composers. Awarded the "White Wing" prize as "PR Person of the Year". The Soviet rock band "Urfin Juice" became his brainchild. He is the director of a studio called TUTTI Records. Participates in the Union of Cinematographers of Russia. Married. Has 5 children. In 2002, the art school of the city of Tura, which is located in the Sverdlovsk region, was named after our hero. Member of the Union of Theater Workers.

In 1981 he graduated from the UPI, Faculty of Physics and Technology. His speci alty is "engineer-technologist". In 1985 he studied at the pop department of the Sverdlovsk Music College. I chose jazz piano as my direction. In 1994 he studied at the Ural State Conservatory, where he received the speci alty "composer". As a student, he played in the bands "Blind Musician" and "Sonans". Later he became the leader of the Urfin Juice team. In 1982, he became the keyboardist and producer of "Nautilus Pompilius" when recordingalbum "Moving". With this group, he collaborated twice more on the records "The Man with No Name" and "Report".

In 1986-1990, he participated in the Cabinet group. Since 1990 he has been creating the Alexander Pantykin Project. He is the author of the musical called "The End of the World." He writes music for documentaries and theatrical performances. He played in the band "Train somewhere". He was the chairman of the jury of the festival called Rock-Line. Received the "Green Apple" award for creating music for the film directed by D. Astrakhan.