Baba yaga

In 1989, in the city of Agrigento, during the festival, the collective of the Russian choir folk song “Karagod” met with Irish singer and guitarist Jamie Winchester and Hungarian Chaba Lukas.

It was then that the hotel residents and future colleagues in the work suddenly heard " Oh, it's not evening ." The performance made a strong impression on rock musicians, and they suggested that the Russians create a joint group. Thus was born a new team "Baba Yaga."

In 1990, the debut album Baba Yaga was released. The second album was recorded and released in Hungary. The music of Baba Yagi interested the producer Leslie Mandoki and the German record company DSB. The collaboration resulted in Where Will Tou Go (sometimes also called Baba Yaga of the same name), recorded in Munich and Budapest in 1992 and launched in Europe in 1993.

The group's songs began to sound on the air of European radio stations. The power of music and the infectious fun radiated by the musicians allowed the band to tour extensively with concerts and take part in major festivals: Glastonbury (GB), Arezzo Wave (I), Rudolstadt, Koln, Open Ohr Mainz (G), D'Ete Nantes ( FR), Tilburg, Terschelling (NL), Kalaka Festival (HU) and others.

Of the album’s tracks, the song “So Ends Another Day” was best known. It was widely rotated by radio stations, in particular, Our Radio station and was used as a soundtrack in the 1995 Russian film “ Wolf Blood ”.

The last album, Secret Combination, was recorded in Budapest and Moscow. Released in Russia in 1999 (reprinted in 2002), in Hungary three years later. The 2002 Russian reissue differs from the European one in that it features the song “Day To Die” (“Black Raven”).

On August 24, 2008 at the A38 festival in Budapest, the last performance of the Baba Yaga band took place. Although there was no official announcement of the dissolution of the group, since then there has been no news of its activities.

In the 90s, Jamie Winchester worked as a music producer with several projects, in 2001 he founded a group called Boom-Boom Tátraival, which released two albums and broke up in 2002. In 2011, Boom-Boom teamed up again and gave several concerts.

In 2001, Winchester, together with Hungarian guitarist and keyboardist Robert Hrutka (R-Go, Rapulok, Lerch Istvan es baratai, Bon Bon) founded a group that released one album It's Your Life in the same year under the guise of Jamie Winchester & Hrutka Robert. In 2008, the band played a farewell concert at the Ugyan V'Moto-Rock festival.

In 2009, Jamie Winchester recorded the solo album The Crack Are Showing. In October 2012, Jamie Winchester returned to Ireland, where he continues to play music and periodically gives concerts with his group.

In February 2016, the Academia website named Secret Combination the best pop-rock album of 2016 ^[1] .

In addition to the current collective, there was a “false group” consisting of musicians who did not play in the original composition, a group led by professor, honored worker of culture of the Russian Federation, artistic director of the Karagod ensemble Evgenia Zosimova, a group that toured under the name Baba Yaga and performed the repertoire original team.

Composition

• Jamie Winchester - guitar, lead vocals (1989 - our time)
• Tibor Bornai - keyboards, vocals (1989 - our time)
• Vladimir Abanshin - vocals, ethnic instruments (1989 - our time)
• Galina Ivanova - vocals, ethnic instruments (1989 - our time)
• Anna Pavlenko - vocals, ethnic instruments (1989 - our time)
• Mikhail Emelyanov - vocals, ethnic instruments (1989 - our time)

Former members

• Zsolt Galantai - (1991 - 2002) - drums
• Michali Gusar - (1991 - 2004) - bass, vocals
• Sandor Chiba - Percussion (2004 - 2006)
• Peter Dando (1999, 2002)
• Bela Dienes (1999, 2002)
• Anatoly Kondratkov - (1992, 1999, 2002) - vocals, ethnic instruments †
• Pavel Skitikov - (1989 - 1993) - vocals, ethnic instruments
• Tatyana Skitikova (Alekseeva) - (1989 - 1993) - vocals, ethnic instruments

Session Musicians

• Dando Pater - (1999, 2002)
• Guinness Bella - (1999, 2002)
• Anatoly Titov - (1992, 1999, 2002) - ethnic instruments

Baba Yaga (1990)

1. All work and no play
2. Side to side
3. Magical wheel
4. Fill
5. His secret
6. Travushka
7. It's me
8. Beating My Dreams Away
9. Days of gold
10. Fill
11. Goodbye

In 1992, the album was reissued under the same name.

Where Will You Go (also known as Baba Yaga and “ Where Will You Go ?” In the Russian reissue) ( 1993 )

Of the album’s tracks, the song “So Ends Another Day” was best known. She rotated widely on the radio. The song is a revision of the Russian folk song " Oh, it's not evening ." The album also features a cover version of The Beatles ' Back in the USSR ". In Russia it was reprinted under the title “Where will you go?”

1. Where will you go
2. So Ends Another Day
3. Side to side
4. Red bird
5. Time to try
6. Back in the USSR
7. All work and no play
8. It's me
9. Days of old
10. Beating My Dreams Away
11. All the lights

Secret Combination ( 1999 )

The album was released in Russia in 1999 ^[2] and in Hungary in 2002 ^{[2] [3] [4]} .

List of Album Songs

1. Secret combination
2. Day to die
3. Edge
4. You Cant Always Get What You Want
5. Boy and a girl
6. Rusalco
7. Wonderland
8. Anyway
9. Playing with my mind
10. Back in the USSR
11. Lonely man's song

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• Baba Yaga on zvuki.ru
• Secret Combination album at 1000plastinok.net