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Brain Drain
(Krasnyi Kommandir/ Roter Kommandeur ) 1994
Smoke on the Vodka
1995
Jetzt erst recht!
(Vsem Naslo!) 1996
Made in Aarhus
2000
Und auch der Sowjetmensch
2001-2002
Made In Berlin
2004-2005, unpublished
Sovietabilly
2005
Fantasmagoria
2006
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Dr. Bajan, Russia/ Saint Petersburg - Sovietabilly - under the influence of klezmer, jazz, chanson and Folk music, plus rock ´n roll Sovietabilly came to be! (Balkan meets Charlie Parker, Manu Chao bumps into Gorky.) | |
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Dr. Bajan - Sovietabilly | |
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Emotional, raw, savagely passionate and virtuoso all at the same time: Sovietabilly is modern urban folk music Dr. Bajan style. Urban speed-folk? World music art rock? As soon as you too become enmeshed into Dr.Bajan's orgiastic trance, you will know that all attempts to find a single term of description are in vain, any one too narrow to fully grasp the total experience. Sovietabilly is a highly individual hybrid of Russian and European musical languages, with the unmistakable stamp of an outstanding accordion (bayan).
Dr. Bajan himself comes from Leningrad, where the electric guitar and rock music once represented the only way he could distance himself from the [hyperbolic?] facade that was Soviet existence at the time. Even back then it was already clear that he had a soft spot for fast solos. After a while, the guitar wasn't subversive enough for him and he turned - back to his roots - to the bayan, the accordion. A totally new perspective on his own musical tradition opened up for him. Up until then, the revolutionary anthems and Soviet pop hits of his musical environment provoked more eye-rolling than anything else, but now, exploring the roots of his musical heritage more deeply, he uncovered its connections to klezmer, jazz and folk music.
Dr. Bajan drew on all of these influences - plus a hefty dose of rock'n roll - to create a totally original, contemporary new form: Sovietabilly, music that conveys an intimate view of the dry-eyed and playful take of one post-Soviet cosmopolitan on life, the universe and groove. Balkan meets Charlie Parker in the kitchen of a Berlin walk-up flat, Manu Chao meets Odessa pentatonic. From the covers of Deep Purple right up through the much-loved "Kasatschoks" - whatever he touches is transformed in the blink of an eye into Dr. Bajan.
His wildly intensive stage presence, his gift for improvisation and his sheer charisma catch everyone up into his spell right from the start. Dr. Bajan plays his audience and himself into a form of ecstasy. In its present makeup for three years, the band has played numerous festivals in Germany and abroad, where they've performed with other World Music groups like "Fanfare Ciocarlia," "Di grine Kuzine," "Folkabestia," "Apparatschik," "Dikanda," and more.
The Dr.Bajan Sovietabilly Band (formerly Dr. Bajan & Brain Drain) performs his unique music on traditional instruments. Aside from his stunning originals, composer Dr. Bajan also astonishes with brilliant cover-versions honouring favourite hits from throughout musical time. The words are in Russian, the band international - a Russian, a Ukrainian, an Italian Swiss and a German - drawing their experience from across a variety of European musical culture genres. The violinist from classical and gypsy music, the double-bassist from the avant-garde spiced with Italian folk music, the drummer with a passion for jazz. Together they create a fiery mix that infects your feet with dancing, simultaneously going straight to the brain. With their unbelievably intensive stage presence Nikolai Fomin, Anton Teslia, Davide de Bernardi and Alf Schulze won the sixth „World Wide Music Award“ at the „Musica Vitale“ 2004 music festival competition and the Berlin "Creole" competition 2008. | |
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