Sergei Kuryokhin: The Mad Mechanics of Russian Rock

10 hrs. 12 min.

Language Russian

Author Alexander Kushnir

Narrator Dmitry Kreminsky

Description

“The Mad Mechanics of Russian Rock” was written for about five years and became Kushnir’s seventh major literary work. As the author puts it, the main declared goal of this tome is to remind those who have forgotten about Captain-Kuryokhin and to introduce those who have never heard anything about this flamboyant musician. The book is based on several hundred interviews with Kuryokhin’s contemporaries and friends, as well as with his relatives, musicians of the legendary “Pop-Mekhanika” orchestra, film directors, philosophers, and political figures. Among them are the leader of the Aquarium band Boris Grebenshchikov, music critic Artemy Troitsky, musicians Aleksandr Lipnitsky and Sergey Letov, artists Sergey “Afrika” Bugaev and Dmitry Shagin, directors Sergey Debizhev and Dmitry Meshkiev, Kuryokhin’s wife Anastasia Kuryokhina, and many others. “The Mad Mechanics of Russian Rock” tells about Kuryokhin’s birth in Murmansk, his move to Moscow, studies in Evpatoria, his creative path in St. Petersburg, numerous performances in Europe, America, and Japan, the reasons for the musician’s joining the “National-Bolshevik Party,” and also about the sudden death of the artist at age 42 from a “practically nonexistent illness.”