Jun
27
Tue June 27th, 2017
8:00PM
Main Space
Minimum Age: 18+
Doors Open: 7:00PM
Show Time: 8:00PM
Event Ticket: $50
Day of Show: $55
For the first time in 5 years, Auktyon is back in the US with only a handful of concerts on the east and west coasts, presenting their new album “On The Sun”. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to catch the unique and diverse, always recognizable and constantly changing heroes of Russian art-jazz-rock, variously influenced by folk, avant garde and Russian high poetry.
Auktyon (St. Petersburg, Russia)
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The sound of Auktyon’s contagious chord defies easy comparison to Western acts and stereotypes of Russian music. You may hear musical hints of performers and genres as diverse as the Talking Heads, Leonard Cohen and Plastic People of the Universe, and punk and klezmer. What you won’t hear are balalaikas or Volga boatmen lurking in Auktyon’s songs, though there is something more elusive that could only come from cosmopolitan St. Petersburg, home of the darkness of Dostoyevsky: the graceful nonsense of early 20th-century Russian poetry and the playful earthiness of jam sessions in Soviet-era kitchens. Auktyon has kept the best of Russia’s bohemian past alive, reassembling it with rock sensibility. The result is utterly worldly, unabashedly eclectic and instantly accessible to international listeners.
Auktyon (pron ounced auction, as in eBay) has emerged as a distinctly original band in the early 80’s in St.Petersburg, Russia, when rock bands started to emerge slowly from the underground and into the popular culture. The band has always remained uncompromisingly alternative, never tempted to resort to the popular trend at that time of politicizing their songs. Early on in their career, a typical Auktyon concert would resemble a theatrical show, with elaborate costumes and make-up, eccentric behavior, and grotesque mannerism of the frontman. In the mid 90’s and for the next decade, Auktyon actively explores European and American audiences, having great success and gaining a cult following in many countries. A favorite at hundreds of international music festivals, the band has always been able to establish an understanding, a connection with the audience, regardless of the languages spoken on and off stage.
Inexplicable fusion of different style of music and performing technique, odd rhythms, melodic vocals, unbelievable energy and drive. Just about the only Russian rock band to nurse out a sound that resists an easy matchup with a Western source, known for their Dadaist lyrics and riotous stage show, Auktyon fuses traditional folk with frenetic punk and jazz.