Animal Jazz

The group’s birthday is considered December 22, 2000 .

The group recorded 8 electric albums, 4 acoustic, 16 singles and 4 DVDs , repeatedly participated in the festivals “ Maxidrom ”, “ Invasion ”, “Nashville”, “ Wings ”, “SKIF”, “Megachaus”, “Kuban”, performed before bands Rollins Band , Garbage , Clawfinger , The Rasmus , Red Hot Chilli Peppers , The Vaccines , Linkin Park .

In 2006, the musicians recorded the soundtrack for the film " Graffiti " (directed by Igor Apasyan ). The premiere of the film was sold out as part of the XIX International Film Festival in Tokyo . Also, the songs “Animal Jazz” are used in various series on central television channels (“ Margosha ”, “ Gentlemen officers ”, “ Love is not show business ”, etc.)

There are 24 official video clips in the collection of the group.

On October 21, 2007, the group presented to the public an acoustic album entitled "1: 0 For the Benefit of Autumn". This is the first acoustics of Animal Jazz, recorded in full force.

On March 13, 2009, the group presented their new album “Egoist” in the Luzhniki Sports Palace . Further, the group presented the album in clubs - on March 15, 2009 in Kiev at the Bingo club, and on March 20, 2009 - in St. Petersburg , in GlavClub.

In 2009, Animal Jazz, together with Vladi from the Caste group, recorded the track “Everything Is Possible”. The clip for this song was rotated on many television channels and was included in the hit parade "Russian Top Ten" on MTV-Russia ^[1] .

Further, “Animal Jazz” went on a tour of the cities of Russia and the CIS as part of the “EGOISTIC tour”.

On March 25, 2011, on the KapKan Records label (in collaboration with Soyuz Music ), the band released their sixth album, Animal Jazz. The album was released in a limited edition, in the form of a book with a group poster and lyrics. Each disk is numbered ^{[2] [3]} .

In June 2012, the musicians took part in the first rock festival "Island" ( Arkhangelsk ).

On June 1 and 2, 2014 , the group acted as a warm-up before Linkin Park concerts in Russia. The show took place on June 1 in St. Petersburg (Petrovsky Stadium). On June 2, the show took place in Moscow (Olympic Stadium).

On March 15, 2017, the video “Here and Now” was released. The shootings were attended by wards of the AdVita charity foundation ^[4] .

March 19, 2017 the group releases a mini-album called "Love for Flights." The disc consists of two tracks ("Peter" and "Love for Flights"). The track "Love for Flights" got a place in the charts " Chart Dozen " ^[5] . On September 13, the single "Happiness" was released, which also hit the Chart Dozen.

On November 17, the release of the compilation Step Inhale. Tribute ”, which presents songs from the album“ Step Inhale ”performed by other musicians. The album’s release, dedicated to the 10th anniversary of “Step Inhale”, was preceded by two singles, one of which was shot a clip.

On March 8, 2018, the video “Happiness” was released. The album of the same name was released on March 30, 2018 ^[6] .

On July 13, 2018, a joint release with the rap artist Decl was released, the acoustic album "Acoustic", which presented new acoustic versions of Decl's legendary songs - "Friday", "Who are you", "Party", the album also presented contemporary works by Decl . Bender (PTVP) & DJ Worm also took part in the record.

In anticipation of the presentation of the new album, the group decided to excite their fans and all the participants in turn announced their departure from the collective. As a result, all this turned out to be nothing more than an April Fools' joke, but many listeners believed in it. Musicians denied all statements and invited everyone to their concerts

Current Members

• Alexander "Mikhalych" Krasovitsky (2000 — present) - vocals
• Igor "BOEHPYK" Bulygin (2000 - present ) - bass
• Eugene "Johnson" Ryakhovsky (2000 - present ) - guitar , backing vocals
• Alexander Zarankin (2007 — present ) - keyboards
• Sergey Kivin (2008 — present ) - drums
• Ruslan Timonin - technician
• Yuri Smirnov - sound engineer

Former members

• Sergey Egorov (2000-2004) - drummer
• Boris Golodets (2000-2004) - keyboard player
• Stanislav Gavrilov (2004-2005) - keyboard player
• Andrey Kazachenko (2005-2007) - keyboard player
• Jan Lemsky (2004-2008) - drummer
• Gennady Mikryukov (2006-2012) - Director
• Innokenty Mineev - (2013—2013) Director

Number Albums

• 2002 - Animalism
• 2004 - Stereo love
• 2004 - How are people
• 2007 - Step Inhale
• 2009 - The Egoist
• 2011 - Animal Jazz
• 2013 - REM sleep phase
• 2015 - Keeper of the Spring
• 2018 - Happiness
• 2019 - Time to love

Acoustic Albums

• 2005 - Unplugged
• 2006 - Unplugged II: Rare Books
• 2007 - 1: 0 in favor of autumn
• 2016 - AZXV: Acoustics
• 2018 - “Acoustic” together with Decl

Singles

• 2002 - Intermission
• 2003 - 15
• 2003 - If you breathe
• 2003 - Bolero for Marlene Dietrich
• 2006 - Step Inhale
• 2008 - I
• 2010 - 2010
• 2012 - 2012
• 2012 - Live (with MacSim )
• 2013 - Spider
• 2013 - Anamnesis
• 2014 - Breathe
• 2014 - Here and Now
• 2014 - Everything Passes
• 2016 - Not Your Death
• 2017 - Love for flying
• 2017 - Happiness
• 2017 - Two (with Anacondaz )
• 2017 - Three stripes (with Alai Oli )
• 2019 - Feelings

Collections

• 2004 - The Best
• 2005 - Single Collection
• 2015 - AZXV
• 2017 - Step Inhale. Tribute ^[7]

Video

• 2007 - Brutal Jazz (live)
• 2009 - The Egoist
• 2009 - Everything is Possible: Live in Teleclub (live)
• 2012 - Jazz with pepper (live)
• 2018 - Bumble Beezy & Roux feat Animal Jazz

Video

• 2004 - Stereo love (Dir: Maxim Paramonov )
• 2006 - Step Inhale
• 2007 - Three stripes (Dir .: Evgeny Kazakov)
• 2007 - 1: 0 in favor of autumn (Dir .: Vanich)
• 2008 - I
• 2009 - The Egoist
• 2009 - Everything is possible
• 2009 - Themselves (Dir: A. Petrov, A. Krasovitsky)
• 2009 - Third Eye
• 2009 - New Year 2010
• 2009 - Three Stripes (feat. Amatory )
• 2010 - 2010 (Dir: A. Petrov)
• 2011 - Saturday, 6 a.m.
• 2012 - Space
• 2012 - Love (Dir .: M. Fedoseyeva)
• 2012 - Jiga
• 2012 - Live (Dir .: Shatrov, Vadim Vasilievich )
• 2013 - Spider (Dir .: Shatrov, Vadim Vasilievich )
• 2013 - Anamnesis (Dir: Alexander Krasovitsky )
• 2014 - Lies (Dir .: Shatrov, Vadim Vasilievich )
• 2014 - Breathe (Dir .: Marina Fedoseeva)
• 2015 - Further (Dir .: Shatrov, Vadim Vasilievich )
• 2015 - The Killer (Dir: Eldar Asanov)
• 2017 - Here and Now
• 2017 - Two (with Anacondaz )
• 2018 - Happiness
• 2019 - Feelings

• Alekseev A.S. Who is who in Russian rock music . - M .: AST: Astrel: Harvest, 2009. - S. 544. - ISBN 978-5-17-048654-0 (AST). - ISBN 978-5-271-24160-4 (Astrel). - ISBN 978-985-16-7343-4 (Harvest).

• The release of the TV project “Real Music” (03/28/2014)
• Official site
• Interview with the New Humanity newspaper
• Joint video interview of Alexander Krasovitsky and singer MakSim
• photo report of the concert of April 12, 2011 in St. Petersburg on the art portal OKOLO