atmoravi - and noone else :) that means songwriting, arrangements, performance, recording, engineering, mixing, some mastering, graphic design, web-mastering, public relations, booking and few other things done by the lad :)
Influences
tori amos, placebo, damien rice, ani difranco, a-ha, the beatles, muse, aquarium, led zeppelin, tom waits, the smashing pumpkins, the cardigans, auktion, kino, nautilus pompilius, bob dylan, bright eyes, howie day, coldplay, travis, starsailor, stereophonics, depeche mode, lou reed, dire straits, enya, deep purple, black sabbath, pink floyd, notwist, david sylvian, linda, madonna, moloko, metallica, prince, peter gabriel, stivie ray voughan, radiohead, rufus wainwright, the doors, the rolling stones, zoot woman, ddt, wir sind helden, grazhdanskaya oborona, zemfira, kalinov most
ATMORAVI was born in the middle of 70s in Minsk, USSR. Was awaken to music by the family custom to sing and play. Studied chello for 5 years. Heavily influenced by The Beatles, Dire Straits and russian band Aquarium. Started to write songs at the age of 15 when got his first guitar. First 4-track recording was done in 96 in St.-Petersburg. in 1992 took sannyas from OSHO, an enlightened master and that was a begginning of a new life. In 1997 founded together with his brother Moksha a band called Arigato. The band recorded a bunch of songs and performed rather infrequently. Last recording was made in 2001. In 2002 Moksha left his body due to a tragic accident in Krym, Ukrain on the Black Sea. Since then atmoravi is a solo artist. In september 2004 the record called "WEED" or "chertopolox" was released in Minsk, Belarus.
It was well recieved by critics by the likes of ROLLING STONE, Moscow and FUZZ, St.-Petersburg with radio stations of Belarus picking up songs for the airplay.
The following two years were spent in promoting the record by touring and making two "acoustic" records WHITE GOLD and ON THE LINE aside preparing the second studio record for it's WEST RECORDS of Minsk release.
The new record called ROMANTIKA is released by West Records, Minsk in October 2006. It includes 12 songs and few extras: video for EFIR, remix on CHANCE and an acoustic live recording. The record is proclaimed to be one of the 4 best records produced in Belarus in 2006. Song "Therefore" is gathering international audience while being played over Pipeline Radio, UK.
"Melancholischer, sinnierender, Verstand benutzender Pop aus Berlin... ein klangbetonter, kunstvoller, stimmungsreicher, farbenfroher Klangteppich. Ein Freiflug durch die Nacht." - monsters and critics
"In Lea W. Freys Stimme verliert man sich." - schwäbische post
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"Ein Klang- und Seelenerlebnis allererster Güte" - musik an sich
"It is simple… a world government can look at the whole world as one humanity. Problems are not so much as they appear. And if there is one world, then there is no need for seventy-five percent of every nation's wealth to be wasted on nuclear weapons, on armies, on other kinds of war materials. Seventy-five percent! Humanity is living only on twenty-five percent. If there are no longer any nations, the question of war does not arise. A hundred percent of all energy, money, income becomes available to the whole world…"
