Aavikko's Performance at the Opening of Ikra Club

The opening of the Ikra club falls on Wednesday - March 1. On this remarkable day, guests from Finland, Aavikko, will take the stage. Aavikko - the pride of the Finnish scene and one of its main export products: conceptual, burlesque, and incredibly optimistic. Three hot northern guys desperately nostalgically yearn for Californian surf and literally squeeze every drop from archival electronic organs, often of Soviet origin. Aavikko consists of Tomi Leppänen (drums and keys), Tomi Kosonen (keys), and Paul Staufenbiel (keys); a rather unusual instrumental trio that has recorded and released five albums on various labels in Finland (Bad Vugum, Hawaii Sounds), Germany (Humppa Records), and Russia (Solnza Records). The trio creates synth music using their own recipe, mixing lo-fi surf with instrumental free jazz and avant-garde noise. The instruction is to bring joy to everyone and to delight both show business and their fans! It all started back in the mid-'90s, when the strange trio played Slavic muzak, lounge for supermarkets with an overtly Slavic spirit. Aavikko immediately caught the attention of European music critics. Back then, emphasis was placed on Slavic titles of compositions: "Down the Volga", "Trans-Siberian Railway", and even "Oblomov's Spirit" - and on some memories of Russian folk songs and Russian classics. In translation to Russian, the band's name sounds like "Desert". It was associated with a memorable incident during the release of their second album: during typesetting, an error occurred, and the album suddenly gained a new name - "Lustynya". Those who heard the album in Berlin, Stereo Total, immediately ordered a remix from the Finns, and soon the well-known electronic musician Felix Kubin proposed collaboration. In 1999 in Germany, Aavikko became acquainted with the work of their Russian colleagues in the field: "Knife for Frau Müller" and Messer Chups, and subsequently performed together many times in Russia. But Gitarkin and Kostrov are certainly not the only like-minded people Aavikko has in Russia. The recording of the Finns' last album "Back to the Futer" featured Lidia Kavina herself, the best performer in the world on the amazing electronic instrument theremin. It is "Back to the Futer" that Aavikko present in Moscow right after their European tour in support of this new work. Sensitive to everything new, Aavikko chose Ikra club for the premiere. Their concert is unique in Moscow and the first on the stage of the new big club! Don't miss it!

Ikra Club
Aavikko (Finland) and Lidia Kavina
Wednesday, March 1, 23:00