Tbilisi Rock Festival (1980)

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Tbilisi Rock Festival
Genre
Georgian SSR, Soviet Union
Founded byGeorgian National Philharmonic Hall, the Union of Composers of the Georgian SSR, the Republican Center for Youth Culture

Spring Rhythms: Tbilisi-80 (

Russian rock music.[4]

Organization

The festival was organized by the Georgian National Philharmonic Hall, the Union of Composers of the Georgian SSR, and the Republican Center for Youth Culture at the Georgian

April 1978 demonstrations in Tbilisi
, and to nurture his image as a liberal leader.

Although dubbed by some as a "Soviet

Murad Kazhlayev, Giya Kancheli, Konstantin Pevzner, Vladimir Rubashevsky, Arkadi Petrov, and others. Many suspected that the festival was an attempt by the Soviet establishment to channel the Soviet rock movement into a controllable ideological vessel. However, the event was truly democratic in that it allowed amateur performers to contest on equal terms with professional musicians. Over twenty groups from seventeen cities of the Soviet Union arrived in Tbilisi to take part in the event. Yet, several notable bands, for example Sergei Rudnitsky's Araks and Aleksey Romanov’s Voskresenie
were not invited to take part in the competition.

Prize winners

The first prize was awarded to two acts:

Andrei Makarevich
, which fascinated the public with their poetic lyrics and, through this success, firmly established themselves on the Soviet rock scene.

The second prize was won by

folk-rock
with traditional Georgian choral music.

The professional Georgian

Latvian SSR
, whose success was largely indebted to the singer Harald Simanis.

A popular Georgian beat-band Blitz led by Valery Kocharov was awarded a special prize of the audience.

The compilation of the award-winning songs was released as a

2 LP Laureaty festivalya "Vesenniye ritmy, Tbilisi-80" (Russian: Лауреаты фестиваля «Весенние ритмы, Тбилиси-80», lit. 'Laureates of the Festival Spring Rhythms Tbilisi-80') by the Soviet state-run record label Melodiya in 1981.[6]

The prize-winning songs

  1. "Khrustalny gorod" (Russian: «Хрустальный город»), Mashina Vremeni (music and lyrics by Andrei Makarevich)
  2. "Sneg" (Russian: «Снег»), Mashina Vremeni (music and lyrics by Andrei Makarevich)
  3. "Irlandia. Ulster" (Russian: «Ирландия. Ольстер»), Autograph (A. Sitkovetsky – M. Pushkina)
  4. "Sakartvelo" (Russian: «Сакартвело»), Labyrinth (M. Kiladze)
  5. "Pristegnite remni bezopasnosti" (Russian: «Пристегните ремни безопасности»), Autograph (A. Sitkovetsky)
  6. "Caprice Blues" (Russian: «Каприз, Блюз»), Autograph (A. Sitkovetsky)
  7. "Stranniy mir" (Russian: «Странный мир»), Integral (Ch. Nemen – V. Lugovoi)
  8. "Suliko" (Russian: «Сулико»), Integral (Georgian folk song)
  9. "Lady blues" (Russian: «Леди блюз»), Magnetic Band (music and lyrics by Gunnar Graps)
  10. "Rodina" (Russian: «Родина»), VIA-75 (Georgian folk melody; lyrics by Akaki Tsereteli; arranged by R. Bardzimashvili)
  11. "Troubadour na magistrali" (Russian: «Трубадур на магистрали»), Magnetic Band (G. Graps – V. Mirtem)
  12. "Moya Gruzia" (Russian: «Моя Грузия»), Labyrinth (M. Kiladze – I. Noneshvili)
  13. "Reka Tuni" (Russian: «Река Туни»), Gunesh (Turkmen folk song, arranged by Sh. Byashimov)
  14. "Podsnezhnik" (
    Tatar
    folk song, arranged by B. Alibasov and V. Dolenko)

Controversies

Among the notable participants, the veteran Soviet rock bands VIA-Ariel and

Aquarium was also left without laurels, but the band's outlandish stage antics made Aquarium into a symbol of the Soviet alternative culture. The jury members walked out of a concert when the musicians drank port wine right on the stage and made provocative body movements, with Grebenshchikov playing his guitar in the prone position. The show came as a shock to the organizers and led to an effective ban of the band.[7] Yet, Aquarium managed to organize a second concert in Gori, Georgia, in a spacious circus hall near the birthplace of Joseph Stalin. The concert was filmed by a Finnish
TV crew and the segments were included into a 40-minute film of the Tbilisi festival called Soviet Rock. [8]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Всесвит: літературно-художній та громадсько-политичний місячник, Випуски 7 — 9. Спілка письменників України, Українське товариство дружби і культурного зв’язку з зарубіжними країнами. — Радянський письменник, 1987. In Ukrainian
  2. ^ 100 знаменитых символов советской эпохи / А. Ю. Хорошевский. — Харьков: Фолио, 2006. — 510 с. — (Серия «100 знаменитых»). — ISBN 966-03-3385-4. In Russian
  3. ^ "Программа передач Светланы Сорокиной", 5 канал. Выпуск от 3 сентября 2010 In Russian
  4. ^ Легендарные рок-фестивали СССР. In Russian
  5. ^ VIA (ВИА) in Russian is the abbreviation of Вокально-Инструментальный Ансамбль Vokal'no-Instrumental'nyy ansambl (Vocal-Instrumental Ensemble).
  6. ^ Все специальные файлы Лауреаты молодежного фестиваля Тбилиси – 80. Archived 2007-09-26 at the Wayback Machine Radio Mayak, 2006/15/06, 16:49.
  7. ISBN 5-210-02476-8
    . In Russian
  8. ^ Walter Gerald Moss. A History Of Russia: Since 1855, Volume 2. Anthem Series on Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies. Anthem Press, 2004. 643 pages.

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