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Artist
Kontrabanda
12+ albums
bluesrocklithuanianGarage Rockblues rock
about
Kontrabanda @ MySpace 1. „Kontrabanda“ (“Contraband”) is one of the most mysterious and unpredictable groups in Lithuanian scene. It was created in about 1990. Since 1993 it recorded five albums, but only one of them („Blūdas“ – “The Rampage; 1995, M.E.G.A. Records) was released “legally”. All other albums were released in minimal number of copies by unofficial underground record businesses – it came out later that none these businesses actually existed (Old Bones Records and others). The geography of group’s concerts is also unusual – from Gothenburg poetry festival to Somerfest of Conrad Adenauer fund in Berlin, form a bit illegal concerts in tiny villages of Lithuania, where the fans of “Kontrabanda” gathered from all over the country, to a concert of Jim Hendrix jubilee in Moscow. In if you add that from 2002 the band for some reasons was called “Rokfeleriai” (precisely like that, in Lithuanian – “Rokfeleriai”, but by no way “The Rockefellers”) and came back to its old name in 2006, that the first album of thisgroup ends with monologue from Peter Handke’s play Publikumsbeschimpfung (“Offending the Audience” and that a famous Lithuanian poet – Gintaras Grajauskas – sings, plays bass guitar and writes the song texts for this rgoup, you will understand that it has kind of shade of Fluxus… It would be hard to describe the music of this group in one or two words. If we speak about all the albums, while having in mind that most of them radically differs from each other, the t
