Group Brothers Pearl Biography

Rezanova G. Leningrad, working in the Russian Chanson genre. The main "classic" composition of the group was formed at the beginning of the 10ths in the Leningrad floating restaurant "Parus", which was on the Petrograd side on the Zhdanovskaya embankment. The founder and permanent leader of the Pearls is Nikolai Rezanov, a magnificent jazz musician, masterfully owning a guitar and bandjo.

The organizer of the record was the famous St. Petersburg collector S. at his invitation, then the underground ensemble "The Brothers Pearls", which included Leningrad jazz musicians, gathered in one of the communal apartments on the Petrograd side and "played from under the hair, played popularly, but prohibited" Dvorovo - street "songs. The original name of the team was also chosen there - the "pearl brothers" according to the old "musical nickname" hands.

In the spring of the year, the “Pearl Brothers” are first recorded with the popular performer of those years Arkady Zvezdin-North, the “The Spiritual Section” appears in the team: G. Lahman Saxophone and V. Belokopytov Pipe. Fruitful creative cooperation with the legendary performer lasted up to a year, when the North passed away. The result of their joint creativity was 16 double concert albums, the first and second of which were published in the United States on vinyl records, Kismet Records.

In the first years of activity, experimenting with the performance of the "thieves" and "courtyard-comfortable" classics, the ensemble tested a wide variety of musical-stylistic forms. Since the end of the X, the "pearl brothers" begin to record with other performers. Concerts were made with Moscow artists Evgeny Abdrakhmanov and Igor Ehrenburg. In parallel, solo concert records of the ensemble are also created, the repertoire for which the musicians themselves selected.

For a long time, many listeners, like representatives of power structures, believed that a group with the same “Pearl Brothers” most likely works somewhere in exile, France or America, also “rumors” were “pearl” of the underground “gypsy orchestra”, therefore, in Soviet times, the ensemble could not have, although the musicians could have serious troubles due to the chosen genre.

From the “Pearls”, four original solo concerts were recorded, which, rightfully included in the “Golden Fund” of the thieves song. Two years after the death of Arkady Severny, in Rosenbaum, which later became the "classic of the Russian chanson." After joint records with A. Rosenbaum, the musicians stop for a long time for a long time and work in various restaurant groups of Leningrad and the region.

In OM year, the head and organizer of the ensemble Nikolai Rezanov, “underground” records without an orchestra a solo “literary and musical” humorous program “Horse-Brunks”, and then only at the end of the year later the ensemble for a short period for a short period, the end of GO GO COMPAY AGE GO, and in a short time they record several concerts with the Moscow performer Igor Igor in a short period Kartashev.

After that, the “pearl brothers” in an updated composition are reborn again after 2 years, in OM, already for recording in a professional studio. The "legal" creative activity of the team begins. In Om year, the ensemble records several albums with the leading authors -performers of the genre - Vitaly Krestovsky and Alexander Lobanovsky, well -known performers of the 10ths, and also record another album with Igor Kartashev.

Since the year, the ensemble with a new program begins to perform with concerts in the country, and fruitfully work in the St. Petersburg Studio "Night Taxi" A. Frumin Producer "Brothers Pearls" in the years. Fuchs reprints the anthology "The Kabatsky World of the Pearl Brothers", based on concerts of X and records of the 10ths. In November, the “pearl brothers”, along with A. Rosenbaum, perform with the music program called “11 years later”, dedicated to the summer from the moment of the legendary joint record of the year - “New Songs”.

In the years, the ensemble is recorded and touring with Mikhail Circle, performs with the famous Emigrant performer Mikhail Gulko, continues tight cooperation with Alexander Rosenbaum, as well as, as a accompanying team, participates in the record of many modern genre performers. In the year, on the basis of the old audio material, the “pearl brothers” together with the Night Taxi studio record the original album of “remixes” of the songs of Arkady Severny, called “Return”.

This was one of the first such musical “experiments” in the country: with the help of the latest computer technology from the old “guitar” phonograms, the singer’s “voice” was extracted and new instrumental compositions with modern arrangements were imposed on it. Arkady Severny’s songs were first recorded in a professional, not “underground” studio and gained a long -awaited studio form, fresh sound, and “second life”.In the next, OM year, “Pearls” record an interesting album with a popular performer X, Vladimir Asmolov.

Starting from the x years, the ensemble was recorded with such well-known performers as M. Golko, Trofim, V. Asmolov, V. Shunt, S. Bobkov, A. Bolsokhtinsky, A. Sklya, T. Kabanova, V. Ivanov-Zapolsky, V. Chernyakov, Baron von Ergard, I. Glushakov, S. Druzhko, E. Singer, A. Yakovlev, I. Petrenko, G. Razanov and Alexei Dulkevich musician Ans are recorded by their solo projects.

In the year, the ensemble "Brothers Pearls" celebrated its summer anniversary. For 30 years, more solo and joint records with the musical accompaniment of the "pearl brothers" have accumulated. In the past, recording underground concerts, playing in different apartments, whose addresses are now the musicians have already forgotten, none of them suspected that the records would be distributed by million circulations throughout the Union and even abroad.

And today, despite the rushing years, the musicians continue to delight their devoted fans with live performances and new records; Songs that have become loved by any generation of admirers of the genre Russian chanson. For many years, they have been popular in their performance, which have become “classic” songs, such as: “Okurochk”, “cabman”, “Sonya”, “I returned to Odessa” and many, many others.

The musicians of the ensemble who worked in it at different times: Igor Egorov “Baton”, a drummer, lives in Germany, Boris Nusembaum Pianist, lives in Toronto, works in an advertising newspaper, Alexander Afanasyev Basist, abandoned music, Alik Kavelshvili Pianist, Chordonist, Prombonist, Gennady Yanovsky, lives. In Lazarevsky, Anatoly Maksimov Drive, Robert Sotov Basist, died, Yevgeny Dipkin Klavizhn worked in the team, lives in America, saxophonists Gennady Lakhman and Vitaly Smirnov died, Anatoly Arkhangelsk shock, Evgeny Fedorov Violinka, Victor Smirnov Klavishi, Arranging, George Chikov triba Vyacheslav Maslov Basist, died, Vladimir Ignatiev Basist, Vladimir Lavrov Organ, Valery Zavarin Trombon, and many others.

In total, for many years, more! In recent years, the “pearl brothers” continue to work in the studio, co -authored with the poet E. Kuznetsov, they write new songs, make concerts in their hometown and actively toured as a accompanying team from A. for more than eight years we have been working with the Studi -Taxi studio on the “Radio Chanson” since the year A. Modern musical stylistics of the group, this is a kind The "alloy" of the genres, from the "good old" jazz dixiland, to the elements of rock music, blues and folk.

The head and vocalist of the ensemble Nikolai Rezanov, in addition to musical activity, conducted the author’s program on the St. Petersburg Radio Chanson, dedicated to fans of fishing. The remaining musicians of the team are periodically busy in other musical proctates. The violinist and the second vocalist of the ensemble Alexei Dulkevich records his solo albums.

Since the middle of the X, the musicians "Brothers Pearls" have been official and permanent participants in the charitable actions of the Golden Pelican public charitable movement in St. Petersburg. Often they make free charitable concerts, participate in city holiday events, continue to record and publish diabetes with their new repertoire. Today's composition of the musicians: Nikolai Rezanov - the head of the guitar, Banjo, vocals suddenly died on May 22, Yuri Kapetanaki - keyboards.