Kar man

Bogdan Titomir and Sergey Lemokh (aka Sergey Ogurtsov) met when they worked in a dance and played bass and keyboards, respectively, with singer Vladimir Maltsev ^[1] , for whom Lemokh composed the song “Paris, Paris”. The guys noticed the producer Arkady Ukupnik and immediately proposed to organize a group.

In November 1989 band's first performances took place (at the concerts “Magic of Stars”), and on January 1, 1990 a three-year contract was signed with the studio “Gala” . The dance movements, which were subsequently copied by the fans, the members of the group invented themselves. Now Sergey Lemokh recalls this “dance revolution" with a smile. ^[2]

Initially, the duo referred to themselves as "exotic pop duet." The name was taken as the name "Carmen"; in 1990, the name was transformed into "Kar-man." According to the performers themselves, in this way they "went to meet the wishes of the listeners, obscuring the initial reminder of the treacherous Spanish rival of today's young seducers." The name can be considered as “man-car” ^[3] , the performers themselves prefer the synonym “traveler” ^[4] . In this regard, the band’s first album entitled “ Around the World ” (1990) had a peculiar concept : each song from it somehow tells about different cities and countries.

The group first appeared on television in the spring of 1990, on the 2x2 television channel, performing several songs, then in the summer of that year in the Variety Vernissage program, with the Paris video, and at the end of the year, summed up in the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper , the duet has become a leader in two categories: “Discovery of the Year” and “Group of the Year” ^[4] .

The group received a number of awards: “Schlager-90” (1990), “50x50” (1991), “Star rain” (1991), “Ovation” (1991).

In April 1991, Bogdan Titomir left the project, having decided to pursue a solo career ^[5] . Sergey Lemokh rewrote all the vocals of Titomir for the next Karmania album, and as a result the album was released in 1992.

The 1994 album " Russian Massive Sound Aggression " is considered one of the few Russian-language albums entirely in the techno style ^[6] .

Lemokh takes part in third-party projects: he starred in commercials, recorded the soundtrack for the animated series " Captain Pronin, " wrote musical screensavers for television shows, etc.

In parallel with his work at Karmen, Sergey Lemokh worked as a composer, writing several songs for other artists ( Natalya Senchukova , Lada Dance , Natalia Gulkina , Igor Seliverstov and Natalya Vetlitskaya ).

Since 2013 Sergey Lemokh is a member, founder and vocalist of the rock band “Carbonrock”, which began recording the first album, as well as began concert activities.

• Sergey Lemokh - vocals , lyrics , arrangements , dances , choreography .
• Alexey Makarov - dancing.
• Anastasia Erofeeva - dancing.
• Violetta Petrosyan - dancing.

Former members:

• Bogdan Titomir - vocals , lyrics , dances, choreography (1989-1991).
• Andrey the Terrible - keyboards (1989).
• Valery Dolgin - guitar (1989).
• Vladimir Maltsev - keyboards (1989).
• Mario Francisco Diaz ( Cuba ) - dancing (1991-1992).
• Evgeny Marchenko - dancing (1991-1992).
• Ruslan Tarkinsky - dances, choreography (1991-1992).
• Diana (Dayana) Rubanova - dancing (1993).
• Tanya Black - sample vocals (1993-1994).
• Igor Inshakov - guitar (1994).
• Vadim Karaulov - drums (1994).
• Alexander Chizhov - keyboards (1994).
• Andrey Kozedub - keyboards (1994).
• A. Gromov, S. Lukyanovich, N. Nemchenko - dance machine "Concord" (1994).
• Yu-la - sample, backing vocals (1995-1996).
• Batyrkhan Shukenov - saxophone (1995-1996).
• Dmitry Chetvergov - guitar (1993; 1996).
• Nikita Korobov - dancing (1993-1997).
• Marina Kabaskova - dancing, backing vocals (1997-2001).
• Alexander Vengerov - guitar (1993-1998).
• Katherine Kanaeva (Lemokh’s second wife ^[7] ) - dancing, backing vocals (1993-2010).
• Oleg Rychkov - dancing (2012-2014)
• Sergey Kolkov - dancing, backing vocals (1993-2018)

Before the album Around the World , in 1990 3 songs were recorded: “Man of the year”, “Night with you”, “Singapore”. It is also known that one song of the Karmania album was recorded as a duet in 1991 ("The Guy from Africa"), but after the departure of Bogdan Titomir from the group, Sergey Lemokh rewrote all the vocals.

Studio albums:

• Around the World (Magnetic Album - Gala 1990) (Gala / Sintez, 1991 - vinyl, reissued on CD and MC Gala Records in 1994)
• Carmania (Gala Records, 1991 - Magnetic Album, 1992 - Vinyl, reissued on CD and MC in 1994)
• Russian massive sound aggression (JSP, 1994; 1997; 2004)
• Your sexy little thing (Zeko, 1996)
• King of the Disc (JSP, 1998; 2003)
• Nitro (Quad-Disc, 2008)

Live albums:

• Live ... (JSP, 1994; 2004)

Remix Albums:

• Back to future (JSP, 1999; 2003)
• Ultrasound (2014) (First Music Publishing House) ^[8]

Collections:

• The Best of Car-Man (Jeff Records, 1993)
• Legends of the Russian Disco (Master Sound Production, 2000)
• Legends of the Russian disco. Part 2 (Master Sound Production, 2001)
• Star Collection (JSP Records, 2001)
• Grand collection (Quad-Disc, 2009)

Other albums:

• Polaris (Zeko, 1997, Lemoch solo album)

• Paris (1990)
• My Girl from America (American Girl) (1990)
• London, Goodbye (1991)
• Hotel San Martino (1991)
• Bad Russians (1991)
• A guy from Africa (1991)
• Ciao, Bambino (1992)
• Mamaia Cannibals (1993)
• Sound aggressor (1994)
• Southern Shaolin (1996)
• Dance Disco (1998)
• Music (2012)
• Baby (2014)

• http://www.carmanmusic.ru - the official website of the Kar-Man group
• Kar-Man songs on Yandex.Music
• Kar Man on Discogs