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San Diego Union-Tribune, CD Review >>
The 12th and newest album by the pioneering Russian band Auktyon (which this year celebrates its 30th anniversary), "Girls Sing" showcases this eight-man group's music extremely well. Providing expert help are such American guest musicians as Medeski, Martin & Wood keyboardist John Medeski and former Tom Waits/Elvis Costello guitar acrobat Marc Ribot.
Together, they produce a freewheeling blend of improv-fueled art-rock, left-of-center-jazz, ska, klezmer, Russian folk music, dada-tinged poetry and more. Ribot describes Auktyon's music as a form of surrealist punk-rock. That's accurate, but it conveys only a part of this St. Petersburgbased band's muldferious aural adventures.
Like the Czech Republic's legendary (and even longer-lived) Plastic People of the Universe, Auktyon was once viewed as a subversive force by the since-deposed-powers-that-be in its homeland. Happily, the band's often uproarious music sounds no less radical — or rousing — today. 02/28/08 >> go there
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