kas
Joined: Feb 24, 2016
Posts: 44
St. Petersburg
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Posted on Feb 24 2016 07:53 AM
Hi all!
I'm kinda newbie here.
I would like to introduce the band where I play.
Please welcome - The Air Cats Band, instrumental surf-rock band from
Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Since the band was formed in 2012, we've successfully released two albums and currently active performing at live club concerts and festivals.
Please check out our records and videos here:
http://vk.com/theaircatsband
https://soundcloud.com/groups/the-air-cats-band
Video of our most recent TV appearance:
https://youtu.be/SFY_Gf1OJNM
https://youtu.be/yi9zATKBu4c
...or you can just download our 2015 album here:
http://vk.com/doc-37100189_375926961?dl=414ae7702188a552bf
Hope you will like our music 
— The Air Cats Band - Instrumental surf-rock music from Russia
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Noel
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Back in Piitsburgh, Pennsylvania, where I grew up.
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Posted on Feb 24 2016 08:07 AM
Great introduction, kas! Welcome to sg101. Very glad you're here.
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MadScientist
Joined: Jan 17, 2008
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Atlanta, GA
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Posted on Feb 24 2016 08:16 AM
Welcome! Really dig your sound!
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CrazyAces
Joined: Jul 31, 2012
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Buffalo, N.Y.
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Posted on Feb 24 2016 08:44 AM
Welcome Kas!
I only had a few minutes to watch the two videos you posted but I enjoyed them very much. Great sounds and playing.
Cheers,
Jeff
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kas
Joined: Feb 24, 2016
Posts: 44
St. Petersburg
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Posted on Feb 24 2016 09:41 AM
Thank you guys for your warm greetings!
btw, almost forgot to mention - I'm with tele 
— The Air Cats Band - Instrumental surf-rock music from Russia
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Badger
Joined: Nov 16, 2013
Posts: 4537
Wisconsin
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Posted on Feb 24 2016 10:03 AM
Alexey, Welcome to SG101! REALLY dig your music; downloaded album also, thank you for making that available.
kas wrote:
Thank you guys for your warm greetings!
btw, almost forgot to mention - I'm with tele
Ah, thanks. I don't do FB & it's in Russian anyway. So I was going to ask you "who's who?" (Enjoyed the little dip in Halfway to Marseille grabbing the upper bout of the guitar.)
— Wes
SoCal ex-pat with a snow shovel
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JObeast
Joined: Jul 24, 2012
Posts: 2762
Finknabad, Squinkistan
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Posted on Feb 24 2016 10:12 AM
Pozdravliayu! Dobro pozhalovat'!
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rottenman
Joined: Jan 31, 2015
Posts: 115
Austin, TX
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Posted on Feb 24 2016 10:15 AM
Very cool stuff!
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murph
Joined: Dec 16, 2010
Posts: 345
Chapel Hill, NC
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Posted on Feb 24 2016 10:45 AM
Very nice arrangements and great live playing! Welcome!
-murph
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SixStringSurfer
Joined: Sep 23, 2014
Posts: 1433
Memphis, TN
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Posted on Feb 24 2016 12:09 PM
You guys sound great, I really enjoyed that second tune!
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kas
Joined: Feb 24, 2016
Posts: 44
St. Petersburg
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Posted on Feb 24 2016 01:16 PM
Many thanks guys!
I'm really happy you liked our music, sent the link to my bandmates and they are happy too
To be honest, we were never pretending to be a 'true' surf band that plays classic surf music as many people could expect when see the word 'surf' in the description.
We are rather positioning our band as "light instrumental music" that based on simple but easy to remember melodies. And of course, surf music also inspiring us during our work on the arrangements.
I also glad you like the overall sound, we were working really hard to make it good.
By the way, we tried to use the maximum analogue process during the recording of our last album so we used a 24-track Studer tape recorder and analog effects on our guitars and minimum overdubbing, however, mixing was still performed digitally followed by analogue mastering as it is very expensive to do completely analogue mixing.
— The Air Cats Band - Instrumental surf-rock music from Russia
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Badger
Joined: Nov 16, 2013
Posts: 4537
Wisconsin
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Posted on Feb 24 2016 01:24 PM
 
— Wes
SoCal ex-pat with a snow shovel
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bigtikidude
Joined: Feb 27, 2006
Posts: 25704
Anaheim(So.Cal.)U.S.A.
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Posted on Feb 24 2016 09:28 PM
Welcome, is the surf/instro thing catching on in Russia?
It seems so looking at it from here.
or is it just a small handful of people?
— Jeff(bigtikidude)
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kas
Joined: Feb 24, 2016
Posts: 44
St. Petersburg
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Posted on Feb 25 2016 12:24 AM
bigtikidude wrote:
Welcome, is the surf/instro thing catching on in Russia?
It seems so looking at it from here.
or is it just a small handful of people?
Well, it could be better I'd say.
There are not so many active surf/surf-rock bands left in Russia now, a significant part of the remaining bands are playing mostly covers, not their own original material.
Lyrics is still very important thing here if you wanna be popular but recently the things are slightly changing - some new and interesting bands playing surf/instrumental music appears, again, the vogue of "retro-style" and retro sound is seems to be back.
We also hope to be heared outside of Russia where the surf scene is more strong, so we are planning to try to take a part in some European surf festivals and send our music to the dedicated broadcasting resources such as North Sea Surf Radio 
— The Air Cats Band - Instrumental surf-rock music from Russia
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Badger
Joined: Nov 16, 2013
Posts: 4537
Wisconsin
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Posted on Feb 25 2016 06:22 AM
kas wrote:
Well, it could be better I'd say.
There are not so many active surf/surf-rock bands left in Russia now, a significant part of the remaining bands are playing mostly covers, not their own original material.
Lyrics is still very important thing here if you wanna be popular but recently the things are slightly changing - some new and interesting bands playing surf/instrumental music appears, again, the vogue of "retro-style" and retro sound is seems to be back.
In sum, that's good news. Thanks for the assessment. Your music has a mixture of influences that come together very nicely.
We also hope to be heared outside of Russia where the surf scene is more strong, so we are planning to try to take a part in some European surf festivals and send our music to the dedicated broadcasting resources such as North Sea Surf Radio
It would be great to click on NSSR and hear you guys! Also, don't forget to put a "pin" in the site's Band Map (link on the left side of the screen).
You mentioned you're playing rhythm on the Tele, who are the other band members in the photo above?
— Wes
SoCal ex-pat with a snow shovel
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kas
Joined: Feb 24, 2016
Posts: 44
St. Petersburg
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Posted on Feb 25 2016 07:29 AM
Badger, thanks, man
Badger wrote:
don't forget to put a "pin" in the site's Band Map
Done!
You mentioned you're playing rhythm on the Tele, who are the other band members in the photo above?
Yeah, I mainly play rhythm and supporting parts, but sometimes I have an opportunity to play some solo pieces
As for my bandmates, they are very nice guys:
- Vitaliy, the lead guitarist and the band leader/founder who is composing the most part of the material, he is writing the main melodies and theme pieces which later turning to a finished composition
- Vasiliy, the bass player, former metal drummer (quite successfull btw) who always wanted to play the music like surf
- Sergey, the drum player, the only professional musician in our band, he graduated from the Institute of Arts and plays drums in several bands and also works as the session drummer
One more funny thing about our band is that nobody from our band played surf or surf-like music before, everybody played different music in different bands - I used to play pop-rock and funk, Vitaliy, the lead guitarist, used to play punk and pop-punk, Vasiliy, the bass player, as I mentioned before, played drums in a metalcore band, Sergey, the drummer, also played many different kinds of music but surf (metal, thrash, folk and jazz) so what we are doing together is some kind of experimental search in a particular direction, like you said, "a mixture of influences", the right word 
— The Air Cats Band - Instrumental surf-rock music from Russia
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kas
Joined: Feb 24, 2016
Posts: 44
St. Petersburg
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Posted on Feb 25 2016 07:42 AM
Here is one more composition from the local TV morning show, please, rewind to 2:39 to skip the intrview in Russian 
— The Air Cats Band - Instrumental surf-rock music from Russia
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Badger
Joined: Nov 16, 2013
Posts: 4537
Wisconsin
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Posted on Feb 25 2016 08:01 AM
kas wrote:
Here is one more composition from the local TV morning show, please, rewind to 2:39 to skip the intrview in Russian
One of my favorite cuts on the album.
— Wes
SoCal ex-pat with a snow shovel
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Fady
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North Carolina
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Posted on Feb 25 2016 05:08 PM
Just checking out the TV performances - pretty fantastic!
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Brian
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Des Moines, Iowa, USA
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Posted on Feb 25 2016 06:23 PM
Welcome to the site. Sorry, we can't host your album here on SG101.
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