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From Russia with Love: Auktyon's avant-rock
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San Francisco Weekly, From Russia with Love: Auktyon's avant-rock >>
What does Mikhail Gorbachev have in common with New York's improvisational elite? The answer is Auktyon, a Russian avant-rock band that, thanks to Gorby's transformative rule, hit a fresh nerve with Soviets during the glasnost era. On Auktyon's new album, Girls Sing, American luminaries like John Medeski and Marc Ribot add zippy keyboard and guitar leads to Auktyon's syncopated drum rat-a-tats, galloping bass, squealing reeds, and trademark honking tuba. A thick language barrier stands between us and the Russians, of course, but even if some lyrical meaning may be lost, the music's jazzy and elastic enough to sway opinions (and bodies) on its own. Experience an entirely different form of '90s nostalgia when Auktyon takes the Rickshaw Stop stage on Sunday, March 30, at 7:30 p.m. Admission is 835 rubles (that's, uh, $35); call 861-2011 or visit www.rickshawstop.com for more info.
-by John Graham 03/26/08 >> go there
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