KARAMAZOFF BIKE
If a patchwork quilt could make a sound ...
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WEIRD AND MELANCHOLIC CLOWNS FROM RUSSIA PERFORM THEIR SONGS SINCE 1990.Band/artist history
Karamazoff Bike was formed in Vladivostok, Russia in 1990 by two Far Eastern University students - Markus (guitar, songwriting) and Bon (vocal, guitar, harp, accordion, balalaika, songwriting). The first line-up was completed few months later after Buben (drums) and Bruce (bass) joined the duo.The first album "The Lullaby for a Bastard Child" (tape, no label) was sung in english (as the three following ones) and influenced by King Diamond as well as King Crimson, Jethro Tull and other 70's prog-rockers.
The second album "The Train Is Gone" (tape, no label) found KB with new bassist/cellist. (Elf) and new style which was dubbed "patchwork quilt" - the global eclectic mix from traditional russian melodies to delta blues to 60's psychedelia to punk to indie-rock. The next album "I don't Remember How To Call It" was the same kind but much hippier.
In 1993 KB went to St. Peterburg to record their fourth album "Jemma De Light" (tape, no label/ CD 1996) on famous Melodia Studio with famous russian musician and producer Yuri Morozov. "Jemma De Light" sounds raw, dirty and extremely (long live fuzz-box!!!) and filled with garage-punk-blues influences.
The next big event for the band was Vladi-rock-stock Festival in native Vladivostok where KB shared stage with some russians rock-legends (Aquarium, DDT) and american stars (Supersuckers, Goodness). After that perfomance KB was invited to take a part in North-by-Northwest Festival (Portland, Oregon). But, because of visa-problems, the special trip was canceled.
In 1997 KB desided to write songs in russian. The result were two self-released albums "Karamazoff Bike" (1998, 120 MC-copies) and "1969" (1999, 150 MC-copies). "1969" dedicated to the first lunar expedition.
At the moment KB is cosidered as one of the most respectable indie-bands of Russian Far East and one of the most wanted unsigned bands of whole Russia. RUBL (the russian analogue of UBL) describes Karamazoff Bike as a hidden treasure of russian rock music.Have you performed in front of an audience?We play live anywhere they want us to play and we like it too much. The special moment is our live sound and vibrations (as listeners use to say).
Your musical influences
Element of Crime, Velvet Underground, The Smiths, Camper Van Beethoven, The Stairs,
The Doors, Big Trouble House, Sob Story, The Kinks, Slade, Tom Waits, The Pogues, Blur, Ween, Cake, Leonard Cohen, Alexander Vertinsky, Vladimir Vysotsky, Jethro Tull, Creedence Clearwater Revival.
Vladivostok,
Russia
ID
1109
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