Radio Silence by Boris Grebenshikov

Radio Silence came out on Columbia in 1989, billed to Boris Grebenshikov (the cover's simplified spelling), and it was hailed as the first Western label deal for a Soviet rock musician. Grebenshchikov, the leader of Aquarium and by then Russia's most prominent rocker, had only recently been allowed to travel abroad thanks to Perestroika, and he made the most of it: the album was recorded across 1988 and 1989 in studios in the United States, Britain and Canada, with David A. Stewart producing.

Most of the players are Western musicians, with Alexander Titov on bass the only Aquarium man on most tracks, though "Death of King Arthur" brings a crowd of his bandmates in. The original plan was an even split between Russian and English, but in the end only two Russian songs made it, both on side B.

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