Red Wave


Red Wave: 4 Underground Bands from the Soviet Union was a split double album released in 1986 and featuring Russian rock bands Aquarium, Kino, Alisa, and Strannye Igry, all from Leningrad. It was the first release of Russian rock music into the United States.
Joanna Stingray, who developed a friendly relationship with some of the most prominent Soviet underground rock band members upon her first visit to the Soviet Union, and Boris Grebenshchikov, the Aquarium frontman, are credited with the idea of releasing such an album in the West. The material for this compilation was recorded on a non-commercial basis by the four Leningrad bands and smuggled by Joanna Stingray to the US. Production and release was done by the Los Angeles-based indie label Big Time Records on June 27, 1986.
Three of the four bands on this album have later become icons of the Russian rock movement and are still widely known and followed in Russia.

Track listing

Side 1 (Aquarium)

From albums Taboo, The Children of December and Radio Africa.
  1. "Пепел" – 3:10
  2. "Сегодня ночью" – 4:36
  3. "Танцы на грани весны" – 4:25
  4. "Жажда" – 3:56
  5. "Сны о чём-то большем" – 4:20
  6. "Рок-н-ролл мёртв" only on a vinyl record in short version

    Side 2 (Kino)

Side 3 (Alisa)

All songs from the album Energy.
  1. "Экспериментатор" – 4:31
  2. "Мы вместе" – 2:43
  3. "Доктор Буги" – 3:49
  4. "Плохой Рок-н-ролл" – 3:21
  5. "Соковыжиматель" – 3:14
  6. "Ко мне" – 5:01

    Side 4 (Strange Games)

  7. "Метаморфозы" – 2:38
  8. "Хоровод" – 3:21
  9. "А телефона нет" – 2:51
  10. "Эгоцентризм" – 4:29
  11. "Если ты думаешь" – 3:54