Zodiac. Concert in Moscow

In the 1980s, it was impossible to imagine any major vinyl collection without the record "Disco Alliance" by the Latvian group Zodiac. It was bought through third parties, exchanged, stolen, and given away for debts (Time Out Moscow, Denis Boyarinov).

Zodiac was the first group in the musical world, at that time still our common homeland, to introduce the listener to electronic dance music, the quality of which could compete with the insanely popular Western disco stars of the time: ABBA, Boney M, Arabesque, Eruption, Dschinghis Khan, Chilly, and Space.

Released in 1981 by the Melodiya label under the title "Disco Alliance," the group's debut album flew off the shelves of music stores in the USSR in millions of copies and became a scarce item that Soviet music lovers hunted for.

Listening to the "space" melodies and rhythms of Zodiac, the audience in their fantasies was carried far into the vast expanses of the Universe and considered the musicians of the band to be almost like aliens from other galaxies.

The intrigue was fueled by the fact that the general public did not know the faces of the band members, as they did not perform live concerts but were fully focused on studio work. The lineup of Zodiac at that time included students from the Jāzeps Vītols Latvian State Conservatory led by the future composer Jānis Lūsēns, who after graduating from the conservatory, left the idea of Zodiac and switched to academic authorship – he wrote music for theater performances and films and composed classical pieces.

But Zodiac was not only phenomenal for its time but also too good to be forgotten forever. Today, with an unprecedented surge of interest in electronic music, has become the perfect moment for the legendary project's rebirth.

In 2002, the domestic electronic project PPK, which gained popularity on foreign music channels, released a cover version of the title track from Zodiac's first album. The new version, titled Resurrection, became a hit, conquering all European dance floors, including the 'club capital' of the world – the island of Ibiza. In late 2005, GalaRecords released a remastered debut album "DiscoAlliance" in Russia, and in early 2006, the main episode of Zodiac's second coming took place - for the first time in its history, the band gave an exciting live performance as part of the Cosmonautics Day celebration in St. Petersburg. After the performance, the concert organizers gave the band a certificate for owning a plot on the Moon, so that perhaps in a few years, when free travel between planets ceases to be the fate of astronauts and the fruit of the imagination of writers and other romantic individuals, the music of the Latvian electro-pioneers will finally find its true home.

October 27, Friday, starting at 9:00 PM, club Shadow, the legendary group Zodiac (Latvia), concert in Moscow, guests: DJs Mira and Boyar (Bulgaria), Robots (Moscow)