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BRAVO-MOSCOW BIT-1992-THE FIRST PRESS OF RUSSIA-SINTEZ-SP02-0018. A rare original album of the cult band. Moscow Beat is the seventh official album of the band Bravo. It was released in 1992. The soloist is Valery Syutkin. After the success of the previous album "Dudes from Moscow", the group "Bravo" became one of the first most successful groups of the post-Soviet space and the nascent Russian show business. And if the previous work was rather an edition of previously recorded material with small additions, then the new one was rather the result of the joint work of Khavtan and Syutkin. According to the memories of both, new songs were born exactly during the tour, the lyrics of new songs were often written on trains and planes. The album "Moscow Beat" expanded the audience of "Bravo" — it gained more and more fans in the cities of the former USSR, and the movement of stylists acquired another birth. ...more

BRAVO-BRAVO-1987-THE FIRST PRESS OF RUSSIA-MELODIA-MC6026201004. A rare original of the cult group. The ensemble " Bravo "is the debut vinyl and the third consecutive album of the group" Bravo", released in 1987 by the company"Melody". The soloist is Zhanna Aguzarova. The record's circulation was 5 million copies. The songs included in the album were previously recorded by the group in the period from 83 to 85 and went around the country in an unsatisfactory quality. According to E. Khavtan, Alla Pugacheva played a huge role in the release of the album. After the release of the album, the band became interested in Finland, and soon the album (with the best mastering) was reissued under the name Bravo by Polarvox. In 2010, the album took the 22nd place in the list of "the 50 best Russian albums of all time", compiled by the magazine "Afisha" according to the results of a survey of young Russian musicians. In 2014, the radio station "Silver Rain" included the album in the list of " 50 cult records of the company "Melody"" ...more

RARE BIRD-EPIC FOREST-1972-FIRST PRESS UK-POLYDOR-2442101. A very rare original of the cult prog band in full configuration (single and poster). The third studio album by Rare Bird . English progressive rock band, formed in 1969. They were more successful in other European countries. They released five studio albums between 1969 and 1974. In the UK, they never entered the charts with an album, but came out with one single, the organ-based track "Sympathy", which reached number 27. It has sold a million copies worldwide ...more

DEEP PURPLE-COME TASTE THE BAND-1975-First UK Press-PURPLE REC. - TPSA7515 matrix A-1U/B-1U. A rare British original of the cult album. Come Taste the Band is the tenth studio album by Deep Purple, released in October 1975. The first and only album (not counting live ones) recorded as part of Mark IV. A reviewer of Classic Rock magazine, reviewing the anniversary reissue of Come Taste the Band in 2010, noted the amazing work of Kevin Shirley on the second disc and stated that the album (which received a cold reception at the time of release) has passed the test of time and is one of the best in the Deep Purple catalog. ...more

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