Radio Silence (Boris Grebenshchikov album)

Meet Boris Grebenshchikov, the Soviet Bob Dylan

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Radio Silence is an album by Boris Grebenshchikov, leader of the Russian group Aquarium. The album was recorded in 1989 in studios in the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada, mostly with Western musicians, and produced by David A. Stewart. 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.

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Track listing

United States version

"Radio Silence"
"Winter"
"The Postcard"
"The Wind"
"The Time"
"That Voice Again"
"Real Slow Today"
"The Young Lions"
"Mother"
"Fields of My Love"
"Mother"
"China"
"Death of King Arthur"

International version

"Radio Silence"
"The Postcard"
"The Wind"
"The Time"
"Winter"
"That Voice Again"
"??????? ???? (The Young Lions)"
"Fields of My Love"
"Death of King Arthur"
"Real Slow Today"
"Mother"
"????? (China)"

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Personnel

Boris Grebenshchikov - vocals, guitar
David A. Stewart - guitar
Olle Romo - drums, synclavier
Patrick Seymour - keyboards
Sasha Titov, Chucho Merchan - bass
Michael Kamen - oboe
Darryl Way - violin
Ray Cooper - percussion
Dave Plews - trumpet
Annie Lennox, Siobhan Stewart, Billy MacKenzie, John Stewart, Harry Dean Stanton, Seva Gakkel, Charlie Wilson, Chrissie Hynde, Joniece Jamison - vocals