aka BG, leader of Russian rock-group Aquarium, musician and poet. BG or bg can refer to one of several things: BG Group, owners of the British Gas trademark Blaenau Gwent, a county borough in Wales Blind Guardian, German power-metal band Bulgaria (ISO country code, BG) Bulgarian language (ISO 639 alpha-2, bg) Boris Grebenshchikov, Russian singer and poet, leader... Rock and roll is a style of African American music which has long been popular in Russia. ...
As leader of the band Akvarium*, BorisGrebenshikov was one of the primary figures of Soviet era underground rock, and a major definer of the no-tone-shift-forbidden standard that many Ruskii rockers followed in their music.
Boris was transformed into a "perestroika poster boy," and as an artist with a good command of the English language, Grebenshikov was signed to a major label contract with Columbia in 1989.
Boris and his producer were given roughly five weeks from the songwriting stage to the finish, and the forced hurry--coupled with gobs and gobs of unsympathetic late 80s synth--had a large hand in sinking the finished product.
Grebenshikov has even made a pair of albums for English-speaking audiences along the way, including 1989's "Radio Silence," which had an excellent but overlooked single in its title track.
Where Grebenshikov sings other people's songs, I would have liked to know more about who these people were, what influence they had on Grebenshikov, and why that particular song was chosen for inclusion on this album.
Grebenshikov learned this song from a Russian singer named Alexander Vertinsky, who, according to my friend Irina, put the music for this song to a poem by a famous Russian poet named Nikolai Gumilev.
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