Radio Silence: Boris Grebenshikov, Aquarium

Radio Silence was the title single of an album by Boris Grebenshchikov, leader of the Russian group Aquarium. The album was recorded in 1989 in studios in the USA, UK, and Canada, mostly with Western musicians, and produced by David A. Stewart of Eurythmics. It was hailed as the first contract of a Russian (then, Soviet) rock musician with a Western label. Having by then achieved the status of the most prominent rock musician in Russia, Boris had just recently been permitted to travel abroad (thanks to perestroika). On most tracks, only Alexander Titov (bass) is of the then-current Russian Aquarium band, the rest being Western musicians (with the exception of Death of King Arthur where many Aquarium musicians can be heard). It was originally planned that the album would have half songs in Russian and half in English, but in the final album there are only two Russian songs on the B side. After the Radio Silence project, Grebenshikov returned to Russia and embarked upon an extraordinary, decade-long run of classic Russian-language albums, producing some of the most beloved and critically acclaimed material of his career. Today he is a respected “senior statesman“ in the world of Russian rock music. OFFICIAL SITE: ENGLISH-LANGUAGE SITE: WIKIPEDIA: