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After sold-out concerts in various parts of Europe and the release of the most talked about record of this autumn - the new album of the Aquarium "House of All Saints", Boris Grebenshchikov will perform in America - Washington, New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Seattle. The program consists of both new songs and "aquarium" classics, and, according to music lovers and admirers of Boris Borisovich's work from different countries, surprisingly combines "eternity and relevance". In 2022, the Aquarium group was going to celebrate 50 years of its creative activity. The war in Ukraine canceled the celebration of this anniversary, and "Aquarium" stopped any tour. But in order not to leave their listeners completely without music, a temporary partisan composition of BG + was assembled. BG+ is BG, Alexander Titov (bass), Brian Finnegan (flute), Konstantin Tumanov (keyboards and accordion), and sometimes other Aquarium members join them - Andrey Surotdinov (violin), Gleb Grebenshchikov (percussion), Liam Bradley (drums) In this composition, the group has already traveled to dozens of countries around the world, performing at a wide variety of venues. The band plans to continue these "endless" tours, so that music, as far as possible, heals the wounds inflicted by today's delirium

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After sold-out concerts in various parts of Europe and the release of the most talked about record of this autumn - the new album of the Aquarium group "House of All Saints," Boris Grebenshchikov will perform in America - Washington, Boston, New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Seattle.

The program consists of new songs and "aquarium" classics, and, according to music lovers and admirers of Boris Borisovich's work from different countries, surprisingly combines "eternity and relevance."

In 2022, the Aquarium group was going to celebrate 50 years of its creative activity. Unfortunately, the war in Ukraine cancelled the celebration of this anniversary, and Aquarium stopped all tours. But to avoid leaving their listeners entirely without music, a temporary partisan composition of BG+ was assembled.

BG+ is BG, Alexander Titov (bass), Brian Finnegan (flute), Konstantin Tumanov (keyboards and accordion), and sometimes other members of Aquarium join them - Andrey Surotdinov (violin), Gleb Grebenshchikov (percussion), Liam Bradley (drums)

With these members, the group has already travelled to dozens of countries around the world, performing at a wide variety of venues. The band plans to continue these "endless" tours, so that music, as far as possible, heals the wounds inflicted by today's delirium.

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Bilingual mathematician Boris Grebenshikov has also been known in the West since 1986, when his band Aquarium was featured on the U.S. release of “Red Wave”, the first compilation of rock music from St Petersburg. Three years later, MTV audiences could see him on video clips, singing in English, and he was likened to a “Russian Bob Dylan, David Bowie or Marc Bolan” depending on the critics. Every Western journalist was trying to find an equivalent to the multiform talent of Boris, who had signed with CBS/Columbia.

Boris Grebenshikov was not the first Soviet citizen seduced by rock and roll even though this music style, which communist ideologists considered as a sort of bourgeois perversion, was not to be found in record shops. He was not the first one singing rock in Russian or wearing long hair and faded jeans. But he was the first to fully pass on the whole Western spirit of his time. BG really is The Godfather of Russian rock. But he is also The Godfather of Russian reggae. And…he invented Russian Celtic music as well! He assimilated cultures from around the world and adapted them for present-day Russian-speakers. If he was discovering the outside world during the Soviet Eighties, when it was impossible to actually set foot across the Iron Curtain, the Capitalist Nineties were the years when he “discovered his own country” as he now says, visiting just about every Russian city and small town that had a concert venue. The “endless tour” that he undertook right after Russia became independent from the Soviet Union and that he still pursues today– have proved another inexhaustible source of inspiration for his songs.

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• Chernyj Lebed' Play Video
• Pesni nelubimyh Play Video
• Ne zabyto Play Video
• Gosudarynya Play Video
• Ta, kotoruyu ya lyublyu Play Video
• Obida ( Aquarium  song) Play Video
• Serebro Gospoda Play Video
• Kogda proydët bol' ( Aquarium  song) Play Video
• Suvlekhiim Takats ( Aquarium  song) Play Video
• Dubrovsky Play Video
• Ne sud'ba Play Video
• Ficus Religiosa Play Video
• Krestovyj Pohod Ptic Play Video
• S Toj Storony Zerkal'nogo Stekla Play Video
• I'm a Man You Don't Meet Everyday ( [traditional]  cover) Play Video
• Ne Ubivaet Play Video
• Chto Nam Delat' s P'janym Matrosom Play Video
• Arigato Play Video
• Neiz'yasnimo ( Aquarium  song) Play Video
• Moyey zvezde ( Aquarium  song) Play Video
• Palënoe viski i tolchënyi mel ( Aquarium  song) Play Video
• Navigator ( Aquarium  song) Play Video
• Ne pei vina, Gertruda ( Aquarium  song) Play Video
• Partizany polnoi luny ( Aquarium  song) Play Video
• Velikaya zheleznodorozhnaya simfoniya ( Aquarium  song) Play Video
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• Den' radosti by Aquarium
• Gorod by Aquarium
• I'm a Man You Don't Meet Everyday by [traditional]
• Kogda proydët bol' by Aquarium
• Moyey zvezde by Aquarium
• Navigator by Aquarium
• Ne pei vina, Gertruda by Aquarium
• Neiz'yasnimo by Aquarium
• Obida by Aquarium
• Palënoe viski i tolchënyi mel by Aquarium
• Partizany polnoi luny by Aquarium
• Sidya na krasivom kholme by Aquarium
• Stakany by Aquarium
• Suvlekhiim Takats by Aquarium
• Velikaya zheleznodorozhnaya simfoniya by Aquarium
• Chernyj Lebed'
• Chto Nam Delat' s P'janym Matrosom
• Ficus Religiosa
• Gosudarynya
• Krestovyj Pohod Ptic
• Ne Stoj Nad Dushoj, Mama
• Ne sud'ba
• Pesni nelubimyh
• S Toj Storony Zerkal'nogo Stekla
• Serebro Gospoda
• Ta, kotoruyu ya lyublyu

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Boris Grebenshchikov and BG+ are going on tour in Europe (with a concert in London!)

Boris Grebenshchikov and the BG+ band are going on a concert tour in Europe at the end of October with a new program, which will include the new album BOGRUKINOG and the best songs of "Aquarium".

The new mini-album of the band BOGRUKINOG was not announced and came out quite unexpectedly. It includes four songs – “Don’t Stand Above Your Soul, Mama”, “Black Swan”, “Unforgotten”, “Minsk Pinsk and Severodvinsk”, which BG released after a long break. According to the musician, after the beginning of the war in Ukraine, he could not write for a long time.

Just after February 24, 2022, Boris Grebenshikov publicly condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. His released mini-album BOGRUKINOG has become one of the most powerful anti-war statements of recent years. The compositions are about modern Russia and the war it has unleashed.

“BG’s new album Bogrukinog is the best thing that has happened in Russian music of the last five years. To the question “who are you?” today it is correct to answer: a contemporary of BG”, – commented the new album of the musician writer and publicist Dmitry Bykov.

The musical collective BG+ emerged in the year of the 50th anniversary of Aquarium, when the group had to stop its activities due to the war in Ukraine. The new lineup includes, in addition to BG, bassist Alexander Titov, keyboardist Konstantin Tumanov and flutist Brian Finnegan. On some concerts they are joined by percussionists Liam Bradley and Gleb Grebenshchikov, and violinist Andrei Surotdinov. BG+ started giving concerts in March 2022, actively condemning the war in Ukraine in their art.

In addition to songs from the new album, Grebenshchikov and BG+ will perform their favorite and best songs of the legendary “Aquarium” at the upcoming concerts.

Boris Grebenshchikov and BG+ concert tour will start on October 29 with a concert in Hannover. The band will perform in London on December 5. Tickets can be purchased on the website .

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One of the biggest names in Russian rock music — perhaps the biggest of all — is now listed as a “foreign agent” in his homeland, a designation that taints Boris Grebenshikov as an anti-patriot, even a traitor. The charge meets with an amused shrug. “Ah, I’m always on a list!” he says, laughing. “In the ’70s I was on a list of forbidden people. In the ’80s I was there. It’s all right.”

Grebenshikov, 69, is famous throughout the Russian-speaking world as the leader of the band Aquarium. They pioneered the rock scene that emerged in the USSR in the 1970s. Initially a semi-clandestine version of western hippy music, especially prog and folk-rock, acts such as Aquarium captured popular imagination in the 1980s as harbingers of a new Russia. They were like the pied pipers of perestroika. But Grebenshikov has fallen foul of officialdom once again with the return of authoritarianism.

The ministry of justice in Moscow declared him a foreign agent in June for speaking “in foreign countries for the purpose of providing financial assistance to Ukraine” and for criticising Russia’s war against its neighbour. Formerly based in St Petersburg, Grebenshikov hasn’t been to Russia for more than a year and a half. Prospects for doing so are remote. “It may be a bit dangerous,” he concedes.

Since 2019, he has lived in London with his wife, Irina. He speaks in English on a video call from his flat in Earl’s Court (an in-person meeting had to be cancelled after I caught Covid). Contrary to his grandee status, Grebenshikov has a warm and informal manner. His is a face of laughter lines rather than frown lines, although there are moments when his features lose their brightness and acquire a graver look.

One such occasion comes as he talks about the war in Ukraine. He has many friends there. “They don’t understand why they’re being bombed,” he says. “I think it’s not even a grave injustice, it’s an insult to humanity. A war without any reason at all.”

His new project Heal the Sky is raising money for Ukraine’s largest children’s hospital. It’s a compilation of songs by western musicians, including Jackson Browne, Marianne Faithfull and Richard Thompson. Grebenshikov makes appearances too, including a track with Dave Stewart, Stevie Nicks and Ukrainian singer Serhii Babkin.

BG, as he’s known to fans, has curated the compilation, due for release later this month on Bandcamp. A number of its participants are known to him personally: in 1989 he teamed up with Stewart, formerly of the Eurythmics, to make an English-language album. In their new joint number “War Song”, Grebenshikov sings, in Russian: “The day will arrive, and the war will become a dream/And in the sky the light will return/But it is just where my home once was/It’s no longer there.”

The lines were inspired by photos of bombed buildings, including a friend’s childhood home in Kherson. “This is not a house any more, it’s a hole. I’ve seen whole theatres be destroyed in Ukraine — we played in them,” he says emphatically. “I know these places very well.”

Before the war Grebenshikov frequently toured Ukraine, both as a solo performer and with Aquarium. “The reaction to our band in Ukraine was even more welcoming and loving than in Russia sometimes. It was just amazing,” he recalls. But he can’t see himself playing there now. “Half of Ukrainians think, ‘Oh, a good Russian is a dead Russian.’ I’m getting a lot of mail like this.”

Other celebrated Russian musicians have also raised their voices in opposition to the war. The pop singer Alla Pugacheva, among Russia’s top-selling artists ever, now living in Israel, dared the authorities to add her to the “foreign agents” registry last year when she spoke up against the invasion. Others, however, have either kept their heads down, or are actively collaborating with the Kremlin and its “Z”-themed propaganda.

The last Aquarium concert in Russia took place in St Petersburg the night before the invasion in February 2022. “Some people in my band, in Aquarium, they suddenly became Z patriots,” Grebenshikov says. “It’s like playing Woodstock and saying, ‘Yeah! Kill and rape the Vietnamese!’ Something that doesn’t go well together. I’m sorry for these people. What else can I say? Some people think, some people do not.”

He has since retired the group and is currently touring as BG+. London is his base, but he insists that he doesn’t live there as an émigré or exile.

“Actually, no. I prefer to live and work in London because it suits me much more than being in St Petersburg. I’ve been working here since 1988,” he says. Born in the year Stalin died, he spent decades unable to leave Russia. “For more than half of my life I was behind a wall, and then suddenly I could leave. So it’s my choice.”

When I interviewed Grebenshikov in 2015 , he had recently been denounced as a fascist sympathiser by a pro-Kremlin television channel for playing a benefit gig on behalf of Ukrainian refugee children. Yet he didn’t want to be seen as a political figure. “I’m not taking a stand, I’m trying to behave normally,” he told me back then.

On being reminded of this, he replies: “Well, it seems that I was quite wise in 2015. Being in my position, it’s very easy to write topical songs. Hundreds of thousands of people, maybe millions, will react to it immediately and go, ‘I’m with you’ or ‘I’m against you.’ But the songs tend to fade away very quickly. I don’t like that! I want my songs to remain!”

He is celebrated for his allusive, metaphysical writing style. The idea of home turns up repeatedly in his work, not only as a place of shelter and identity but also oppressiveness, somewhere to escape from.

“At the moment, the country that I was born in and the country that I love is” — he pauses — “in a very sad, tragic position. Millions and millions of people are afraid to think, afraid to speak out. We all know that silence is like cancer. It eats you from within and kills you. And that’s what’s happening. So I’m thinking not only of ways to help Ukrainians but Russians as well, because they are in a terrible position.”

He cites Socrates’ concept of eudaemonia, which he translates as being in good spirit. “That means when you live your life knowing that you did everything you could and everything that you feel is right. That’s what Aquarium and I have been doing for the last 50-plus years. In a country where you cannot trust words, you cannot trust anything, we were looking to establish the way of life which is true. This is what home is.”

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Boris Grebenshikov, the anti-Putin, anti-war 'poet laureate of Russian speakers' exiled from Russia comes to Armagh, Belfast and Dublin: 'The Chieftains opened Irish beauty for me'

Russian rock star boris grebenshikov, exiled from his homeland as a 'foreign agent' because of his pro-ukraine, anti-putin stance, comes to armagh, belfast and dublin this weekend. robert mcmillen talks to him about his love of irish music, which started with the chieftains in the 70s....

Boris Grebenshikov has to be one of the most intriguing artists I've ever interviewed.

I was unaware of this giant of Russian rock music until Flook flautist Brian Finnegan mentioned him to me.

Brian plays with BG+, Grebenshikov's new band who are doing two gigs this weekend, one in Belfast and one in Armagh.

First, as usual, the backstory: Boris was born in St Petersburg and celebrated his 70th birthday, not at home in Russia but in London where he has lived since 2020.

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He is no friend of the Russian authorities who have listed him as a 'foreign agent' yet Grebenshikov still loves his native country.

I mention that the Irish have a very strong sense of identity which we express in our traditional music, in our songs, in our relationship with the land and some of us express it in the indigenous language of Ireland. But what does Boris feel about his homeland? What does being Russian mean to him?

"There's a whole gamut of possible answers, but for me being Russian is to be a citizen of the whole world," he replies.

"Being born Russian, you can't help it. Dostoevsky once famously said: 'The Russian longs for worldwide happiness and he won't settle for anything less. To be a real Russian is to be a brother to all nations, a universal man.'"

The full quote continues: "This is so because our destiny is universality, won not by the sword, but by the strength of brotherhood and our fraternal aspiration to reunite mankind." Boris shares Dostoevsky's view on non-violence.

"It's definitely the opposite of what the world sees at the moment, but this is what I always felt in my soul. For me The Beatles, Pushkin, Yeats, Claude Monet, Shakespeare, Shishkin, Aznavour, The Chieftains and Bhagavad Gita belong in the same garden – and this is my soul and my homeland," he says.

"And yes – Russia possesses an amazing beauty that it can offer to the world; only now it's concealed by the bloody terror and shame of these wars."

Boris and a few friends started a rock band way back in 1972, when Leonid Brezhnev was Russian president.

Although it was a time of optimism on the world stage – Nixon visited Moscow that year for talks on curtailing nuclear proliferation – life for ordinary Russians was stifling, so Boris and his friends set up a rock group.

While it would be easy to think that the band got together to take on the establishment, that wasn't the case.

"We did not have any aim then," says Boris.

"There was no other way to live but to live creating our own music. We never for a second thought of entertaining people: we needed to be one with the magic.

"Music was our way out of drabness of Soviet confinement. Political and social matters didn't even register with us; we needed to be free as much as we needed to breathe."

Over the 51 years since Aquarium were set up, the music has evolved and the line-up has gone through many changes but the magic still happens – even a moment in the studio or on stage, according to Grebenshikov – but all good things come to an and and Aquarium has hit the end of the road.

"At 70 one's need to live communally and share everything with your brethren is not that strong as it was at 20," says Boris.

"The band used to be my family; with the passing of time, everyone changed and grew apart in his own way so now it's all about music – but I still miss the commune.

"With the ones who are in all parts of the world, we play together; the ones who stayed in Russia I try helping as much as I can."

Of course, our conversation moves to the current war between Russia and Ukraine.

Grebenshikov does a lot of work for the people of Ukraine – which of course earned him the title of 'foreign agent', amongst other things. Where did his strong support for Ukraine come about?

"It's the choice between being a decent human and an animal," he says.

"One respects the laws everybody agreed on – the other is moved by instincts and relies only on brute force. History lessons should not be disregarded."

Indeed, Boris is about to release Heal The Sky, a compilation album featuring tracks from friends and luminaries including Dave Stewart from Eurythmics, Jackson Browne, Transglobal Underground, Lisa Gerrard, Christy Moore, The Waterboys, Crowded House and many more. All proceeds will go to The Ukrainian Children's Hospital in Kiev.

Grebenshikov is also a man on a spiritual journey with interests in Sufism, Taoism, Confucianism, Buddhism and Hinduism: "All religions/movements teach one thing – try to make life even a little bit better for those who you can reach."

While reading up on the world's religions, Grebenshikov also listened to a lot of different types of music, including Irish, and found a way to have Armagh Pipers Club alumnus Brian Finnegan as part of the newly-styled GB+ band.

"The Chieftains opened Irish beauty for me back in the 70s," he says Boris.

"Since then I try to be aware of all the new music coming from Ireland and that's how I discovered Flook. So I was listening to them for a year or two – and then I was offered a chance to get together a dream band for the London Royal Albert Hall concert dedicated to my friend and teacher Sri Chinmoy. Brian's name came up and I went, 'Yes...'

"And on the first ever rehearsal we had, Brian started playing on one of my old songs and suddenly the magic that laid dormant in the tune came alive.

"Now we've been playing together for 15 years. I wanted to make him feel Russia: and longed to make Russia feel the real magic of his gift so they would hear what real magic is. He adds pure unadulterated beauty."

In what promises to be three great nights, GB+ are playing at Aonach Mhacha in Armagh on Saturday December 2 and in the Empire Music Hall in Belfast on Sunday December 3. Tickets are £40, or £20 for Ukrainians. Boris also plays in Opium in Dublin on Monday December 4.

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British-Canadian actor Alan Scarfe, known for his roles as bad guys in “Double Impact” and “Lethal Weapon III,” and as Dr. Bradley Talmadge on the UPN sci-fi series “Seven Days,” has died at the age of 77.

Scarfe died on April 28 of colon cancer at his home in Longueuil, Quebec, according to an announcement made by his family.

Originally born on June 8, 1946, in England, Scarfe was raised in Vancouver. He leaves behind several family members, including his son, actor Johnathan Scarfe, who is known for shows like “Van Helsing” and “The 100.”

He also leaves behind a daughter, Tosia, a musician and composer, her husband Austin, and their children, Kai and Hunter.

Scarfe was featured in multiple television shows, including the soap opera “One Life to Live,” “Mysterious Island,” “Tour of Duty,” “Andromeda,” “Stargate: Atlantis,” “Earthsea,” “Kingdom Hospital,” “The Outer Limits,” “Due South,” “The Burning Zone” “Once a Thief,” “The Lazarus Man,” “Star Trek: Voyager,” “Highlander,” “Viper,” “NYPD Blue,” “SeaQuest 2032,” “Counterstrike,” “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” “Quantum Leap,” “Reasonable Doubts,” “MacGyver,” and “Columbo,” alongside others.

“Science fiction on film and television, especially if you are playing some kind of alien character with fantastic make-up, is great for actors with a strong stage background,” he said in a 2007 interview. “The productions need that kind of size and intensity of performance. You can’t really mumble if you’re a Klingon.”

Scarfe also appeared in TV films such as “A Gift to Last,” “Will There Really Be a Morning?” “Hide and Seek,” “As Is,” “Day One,” “Mimi & Me,” “Heart of Darkness,” “Jericho Forever,” and “Gunsmoke: One Man’s Justice.”

On film, Scarfe was notable in movies like “Double Impact,” “Lethal Weapon 3,” “The Bitter Ash,” “The Wars,” “Lock Up,” “The Bay Boy,” “Joshua Then and Now,” “Divided Loyalties,” “Back in Business,” and “The Wrong Guy.”

Scarfe was also an author, and his first novel, “The Revelation of Jack the Ripper,” was published in 2017, followed by “The Carnivore Trilogy: The Vampires of Juarez,” “The Demons of 911″ and “The Mask of the Holy Spirit.”

He won a Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role for his portrayal of Sgt. Tom Coldwell in “The Bay Boy.”

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