Soviet Rock

People in the USSR first learned about The Beatles in the early 1960s, at the peak of beatlemania.

A very small run of 3,000 copies.

Cover art comparison Don McCullin’s photograph was replaced with a compositionally similar image.

Cover art comparison It looks like the cover was taken from the CD booklet, enlarged, and left unchanged—only the white frame around the photos is gone.

It’s interesting that Abbey Road, the band’s final album, was actually the last Antrop bootleg released with Tropillo’s involvement in 1993.

Things like homophonic translation, soramimi and Soviet mondegreens are very interesting.

Intentionally absurd and full of effects, Triangle is often compared to Sgt.

This text is meant as extracurricular reading for those who listen to Aquarium and—for whatever reason—want to know how what they’re hearing was recorded.

Despite Tropillo’s confidence as a pioneer, the album format in the USSR likely emerged a bit earlier than during his active period.

Until the 70s, Melodiya sleeves were pretty much all the same, except for a few rare ones that were sold abroad.