Radio Africa

Infobox Album
Name = Radio Africa
Type = studio
Artist = Aquarium


Released = 1983
Recorded = Leningrad, 1983
Genre = Rock
Length =
Label = Aquarium
Producer = Andrei Tropillo
Reviews =
Last album = Taboo
This album = Radio Africa
Next album = Ichthyology

Radio Africa ( _ru. Ра́дио А́фрика) is an album by the Russian rock band Aquarium.

The album's style presents an eclectic mix of influences: 60's Rock 'n Roll, hard rock, art rock, jazz, honky tonk and others.

According to the liner notes of the remastered version of the album, it was recorded in a mobile studio owned by the Soviet government, after the band bribed a technician.

Many guest musicians participated in the recording, including the notable saxophonist Igor Butman and avant-garde jazz pianist Sergey Kuryokhin.

The album includes some of Aquarium's best known and most cited songs - "Captain Africa" (Капитан Африка), "The Art of Being Humble" (Искусство быть смирным), and the bleak anthem "Rock 'n Roll is Dead" (Рок-н-ролл мёртв), which was chosen by Nashe Radio as one the top 100 songs of the twentieth century.

The album is considered to be one of Aquarium's best. Due to its eclecticism and historical importance it was dubbed "The White Album of Russian rock". [ [http://www.aquarium.ru/misc/history/history053.html (Василий Соловьёв-Спасский, История светлых времён)] ]

Track listing

#"Music of the Silver Knitting Needles (Музыка серебряных спиц)"
#"Captain Africa (Капитан Африка)"
#"The Songs of the Drawers-Out (Песни вычерпывающих людей)"
#"Snake (Змея)"
#"Vana of Khoya (Вана Хойа)"
#"Rock 'N' Roll Is Dead (Рок-н-ролл мертв)"
#"The Radios of Shao-Lin (Радио Шао-Линь)"
#"The Art of Being Humble (Искусство быть смирным)"
#"Tibetan Tango (Тибетское танго)"
#"The Time of the Moon (Время Луны)"
#"Boy Evgraf (Мальчик Евграф)"
#"To Your Star (Твоей звезде)"
#"From the Morning Snow Fell (С утра шел снег)"
#"One More Descent (Еще один упавший вниз)"

References in individual songs

The title of the "Песня Вычерпывающих Людей" - "Song of the Drawers-Out" - draws on the book of Proverbs, chapter 20, verse 5:

"Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out."

External links

* [http://www.aquarium.ru:8080/discography/radio_afri214.html About Radio Africa on Aquarium's official website] ru icon
* [http://www.dharmafish.org/s1018/stuff_show.htm?content_id=3434 About Radio Africa at The Boddhisattvas of Babylon] en icon
* [http://handbook.reldata.com/handbook.nsf/Main?OpenFrameSet&Frame=Body&Src=1/5ED74E6C91F94858C325679D006AEF49%3FOpenDocument About Radio Africa on Pavel Severov's "Aquarium Handbook" (with sound samples)] ru icon

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