Bi-2 (RUS)

Bi-2 have composed a score for Kvartet I's new comedy movie, "O Chem Govoryat Muzhchiny" (What The Men Talk About), which is set for release on March 4.

It took the Bi-2 musicians over a year to write and record the soundtrack. Shura and Lyova invited Anton Sevidov (Tesla Boy), Evgeniy Pankov and Oleg Chekhov, with whom Bi-2 had been collaborating for years, to do the arranging of some songs. This resulted in a full-length, although not planned, album. The soundtrack CD consists of ten new songs and two instrumental compositions. The movie features three songs - Reki Lyubvi, Vechnaya (Prizrachnaya) Vstrechnaya, and Yarmarka Nevest - plus their piano versions. Besides, Bi-2 have recorded instrumentals to their hits Bowie, Shkola Tantsev and Yolochnyi Sok - especially for the movie. The CD is due for release at the beginning of March.

March 26 will see the presentation of the soundtrack at B1 Maximum. Special guests: Vasiliy Shumov and the band Center, as well as Kvartet I. The audience will be able to watch the movie  O Chem Govoryat Muzhchiny' at B1 Maximum before the gig, and Kvartet I, namely Rostislav Hait, Leonid Barats, Aleksandr Demidov and Kamil Larin, will be emceeing the show.

Vasiliy Shumov and the band Center are legends of the Russian rock music and pioneers of the Russian electronica. In the late 1980s, Center used to play stadiums, and it was the first Soviet rock band to release an album on a major international label. In the early 1990s, bandleader Vasiliy Shumov immigrated to the U.S. where he was engaged in electronic music and video art. In the late 2000s, Shumov came back to Russia and reformed Center's classic live line-up. B1 Maximum will see all the band's greatest hits of the  Soviet New Wave' period, such as Privet Tebe, Navsegda, Turgenevskie Zhenshchiny among others.

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