Auktyon.com - Official website of the band

	Leonid Fedorov - vocals, guitar, percussion Oleg Garkusha - show, declamation, vocals Viktor Bondarik - bass Dmitry Ozersky - keyboard, percussion, trumpet Nikolay Rubanov - saxophones, bass-clarinet, jaleika Boris Shaveinikov - drums, percussion Pavel Litvinov - percussion Mikhail Kolovsky - tube, trumpet Mikhail Rappoport - sound engineer Auktyon lineup remained almost unchanged since 1983. Long time ago there was another vocalist, Sergei Rogozhin, who then moved to a pop-band Forum, and then started singing solo. He's quite frequent on TV and radio. Before Boris Shaveinikov (who started in Yuri Naumov's "Prohodnoi Dvor"), Auktyon had a differend drummer, Igor Cheridnik. Guitarist Dmitry Matkovsky and dancer Vladimir Veselkin were with Auktyon for a long time, too. Almost every album also sees specially invited musicians. Most of Auktyon members play simultaneously in other projects. Kolik Rubanov has his Soyuz Commercheskogo Avant-guarda and "Totalitarnaya Muzykal'naya Sekta", plays in ZGA and Zoopark, showed up a few times with Dyusha Romanov. Pavel Litvinov played with Markscheider Kunst, now plays with Addis-Abeba. Boris Shaveinikov took part in NOM's "Jir", and a lot of other projects. Oleg Garkusha played the part of Crocodile in "Kradenoye Solnce", a rock-play by the band of the same name. Leonid Fedorov did the part of Sparrow in that play. He also lended a hand to various projects such as Leningrad and Polkovnik.

Click here to read history of the band.

FESTIVALS

PRESS

Alex Kan, London, September 2004
Auktyon are a legend in their homeland and a cult band in continental Europe where they spend half of their time touring. In spite of having been around for more than two decades they remain an ever-developing creative laboratory. Their sound keeps changing all the time and now, complete with assorted percussion, multi-reed player, a trumpeter and a tubist, it approaches tight jazzy arrangements of Charles Mingus or Radiohead Kid A style.

“Village Voice” New York, NY 9/29/00
Just about the only Russian rock band (lemme reiterate here, rock) to nurse out a sound that resists an easy matchup with a Western source, Auktyon are consistently and wholly original. Sure, they’ve traveled from psycho theatrics to lo-fi trickery to Beck and back, but with the constants (vocalist Lenya Fedorov’s crusted-molasses voice, the clearly relished fret buzz, the tragicomic horns, and the truly bizarre stage presence of clowning percussionist Garkusha) still in place after 15 or so years, they are quiet simply the best music out of today’s Russia.

Charlie Gillett, radio BBC London:
But a surprise is how good 'My Love' by the Russian group Auktyon sounds, with its syncopated handclaps and dissonant guitar. (CD "World 2000", HEMISPERE)

Scott D. Lewis, "The Oregonian" Portland, OR, NXNW 2000
Listening to the inexplicable arrangements that used time signatures and musical phrasings that were anything but Western-based, and watching the manic tambourine player/co-yelper and the tuba player theatrically slap each other on the shoulder in time to the beat, I was finally transported to a different place.

“Pulse Magazine” May 2000
Exquisitely produced underground lo-fi – is that possible? These seasoned Russian provocateurs turn in a batch of songs that combine deep subterranean grumblings of late Tom Waits with absurdist studio trickery of early Beck. The real surprise comes when you find yourself humming the choruses. (On a US release “Sky Down the Middle”)

John Graham, "Williamette Week" Portland, OR, NXNW 2000
Simple rule of thumb: Unique music requires no added input of the liquid sort. Rating: A

Zach Dundas, "Williamette Week" Portland, OR, NXNW 2000
The Russian in white shook like a seizure victim, vibrating in place on the Green Onion's stage. Tall, ostrich-thin and awkward, he sometimes leaned to the microphone to flap his tongue and hiss. Mostly, he let the off-the-rails momentum of Auktyon, his eight-member post-sane carnival from St.Petersburg, drive him further into the quivers. If Auktyon's ecstatic, volcanic Saturday night coup de grвce captured everything right with the annual gathering of bands and music industry types, it was because it was far, far removed from the shop-talk and schmooze that mars the festival.

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