White horse

The album was recorded from May to November 2008 in St. Petersburg at the Aquarium home studio and in London at Livingston Studios. The album includes 12 new songs that were written after the release of the previous album “ Carefree Russian tramp ” (the songs “Dui” and “Arigato” were written in 2006 , “Falcon”, “What should we do with a drunken sailor?”, “Pansies” and ladybugs ”and“ Inexplicably ”- in 2007 , the rest - in 2008 ). In addition to the band’s musicians (in which Alik Potapkin and Alexander Titov have recently played again), about three dozen musicians playing a wide variety of instruments took part in the album’s recording (most of them take part in the Aquarium International project).

The album was released on December 3, 2008 on the site Krugi.ru and became one of the first albums of Russian musicians released on the principle of "pay how much you think is necessary." On the official page of the group ^{[2] it is} proposed to download the album ^[3] , while the user can specify the amount of the voluntary donation, which is accepted through electronic payment systems PayPal , WebMoney or by SMS . For the first time, such a decision was tested by Radiohead during the release of In Rainbows .

• BG - guitar , voice
• Boris Rubekin - keys
• Sasha Titov - bass
• Igor Timofeev - guitar , flutes , saxophones and clarinets
• Andrey Surotdinov - violins , viola
• Alik Potapkin - drums
• Oleg Shar - tambourine , darbuka , shakers, guiro
• Jivan Gasparyan - Duduk (3)
• Brian Finnegan - flutes (3, 5, 7, 12)
• Becky Taylor - uilleann pipes (7, 12)
• Maria Pomyanowska - padudla (polish violin ) (4)
• Alok Verma - tabla (2, 3, 7, 12)
• Manu Delago - hang drum (7)
• Alejandro Martinez - conga, shaker (10)
• John Joe Kelly - bodhran (12)
• Ric Sanders - fiddle (1, 2, 3, 11)
• Chris Leslie - mandolin (1, 5, 11)
• Clare Salaman - nyckelharpa , hurdy gurdy (1, 2, 11)
• Shamita Achenbach-Konig - cello (2, 6, 8, 10, 12)
• Pip Eastop - french horn , flugelhorn (9, 11)
• Erin Nolan - viola (6, 8, 10, 12)
• Nilasha Broughton - violin (6, 8, 10, 12)
• Dundubhi Dikel - violin (6, 8, 10, 12)
• Eddie Hession - accordion (10)
• Alexey Ivanov - Double bass (2, 3, 4, 6)
• Nikolay Matveev - Cello (2, 3, 4, 6, 9)
• Evelina Petrova - Accordion (2)
• Evgeny Vasiliev and Boris Ivanov - Trombones (2, 11)
• Janis Rushko - Tuba (2, 11)
• Alexey Popov - Trumpet (9)
• Vocal Quintet by Denis Rozov: (9, 11)
  • Denis Rozov - tenor
  • Alexander Smirnov - profundo
  • Nikolay Agafonnikov - baritone
  • Alexandra Zhasminova - soprano
  • Maria Znakhur - viola
• String Arrangements - Boris Rubekin
• Record:
  • St. Petersburg - Studio 601 (B. Rubekin - A. Dokshin)
  • London - Livingston Studios (Jerry Boyce)
• Mixing - Jerry Boyce (The Livingston Studios)
• Mastering - Saturday Mastering Studio (A. Subbotin)
• Design - BG, Vladimir Zabavsky
• Drawings - Sri Chinmoy
• Cover photo - Baldur Trigwason
• Photo BG: Pavel Antonov

Music and text in all songs - Boris Grebenshchikov

• Smirnikova, E.V. Boris Grebenshchikov: Parables about Man and the World (based on the album “White Horse”) / E.V.Smirnikova // Music and youth: theoretical and practical aspects: a collection of scientific articles. - Saratov: Publishing Center Nauka LLC, 2011. - S.13–21

• aquarium.kroogi.ru - listen / download the album
• lenta.ru - “Arigato. BG presented the new album "Aquarium" "
• Review: White Horse Aquarium (2008)
• Aquarium - "White Horse"