Welcome to the Bodhisattvas of Babylon, your English-language source for ridiculously copious, detailed, and biased information on Akvarium (Aquarium). Obsessed? You've come to the right place. Bodhi-curious? Let us be your guides. Seeking enlightenment through means which don't involve Russian rock? Well, it takes all kinds. Welcome.
Recently-updated Albums
Russian Album
Beautiful. Fundamental. This is arguably the single greatest Akvarium album and it is definitely among the greatest rock albums. After his one and a half foreign solo albums, B.G. toured with "The B.G. Band," recording two albums under that name before renaming the band Akvarium. This piece of genius is the first of those recordings. My theory is that it marks Boris' recovery from a bad spate of bewilderment and disillusionment after he got out of the crumbling USSR into the wasteland of late '80s England/America under the influence of record company folks and his own longstanding ideas of what it means to be a rock star in the West. With Russian Album he takes his own advice (circa Acoustics) and grabs hold of his roots.
To you five wondrous maidens
Who asked with sincerity and faith
Is given this important Bardo teaching.