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Адо
12+ albums
russian rockacousticrussianfolkrock
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Адо is a Soviet and Russian rock band, which started its existence in 1988 when they recorded their first (still homemade) album Ночной суп. In the studio located in the Moscow region town of Kolomna, two future graduates of the Bauman Moscow State Technical University worked on the recording of this tape: the author of all the material of Адо Andrey Gorokhov and Valery Anikin (who studied at the same faculty of the Bauman University). Andrey sang and played rhythm guitar, while Valery recorded bass parts and solo guitar. It was then that the style of the group was established - melodic song rock with figurative lyrics, which always remained recognizable. The album soon received a diploma of laureate at the competition of magnetic albums of the Leningrad magazine "Аврора", and the group received serious support from the writer A.N. Zhitinsky and the leader of the group Аквариум Boris Grebenshchikov, who supervised the competition. From this moment on, Адо became known in the Soviet Union. The group recruited members and began performing concerts (including with Аквариум and Крематорий, their first songs were played on radio and TV. Vitaly Levkovets, a violinist, Dmitry Yunkin, a bassist (also students at Bauman), and Ivan Voropaev, an altist known for his performances in Аквариум joined Адо. All these musicians (except Levkovets, who left) recorded a successful album Останови меня, Ночь in the summer of 1990, which became their first professional work and was released as an
