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Andrei Bakhurin (1973 - 2047)
vocals, voices, lyrics and art works

I died twice and was ressurected both times. I have two higher educations and that's enough for the number 2 in my life. Everyone who has known me since I was a kid was convinced that my destiny would be the glory of a great painter. I, however, have always had a great doubt about who I really like to become.
I tryied many many different jobs including the position of translator for the Canadian medical clinic at some oilfild in Western Siberia, participation in the Dr. James Thoene crusade for bald cats and, of course, singing in the RE-PULSE band. Although the last job can hardly be considered as a "place of work", it is still one of the few places I haven't been fired from yet. At the present moment I am developing my first video movie project, participating as a stage director in the Bastonada Orchestra and prefere walking rather than using public principles is that the risk of getting thrombophlebits can never be the reason to give up smoking.

Anton Mikhailov (September 9, 1974)
electric bass

From 1991 to 1997 I studied at the Leningrad Electro Technical Institute where I became a punk rock addict. Now I'm a postgraduate student at the same institute. I work as a computer programmer at the Electrotechnical Navigation Scientific Center.
I have always been crazy about music. It's very understandable: my dead devoted fifteen years of his life to Rock'n'Roll (he played bass in his own band called "Stranniki"). So since I was 4 or 5, I got myself  hooked on to my father's favorites: Deep Purple, Uriah Heep, Rainbow, Queen, Black Sabbath and Pink Floyd. In the late 80's I was a permament visitor of the music black market  in Ozerki (Andrey too, by the way) and collected original records of different hard rock bands.
This happy ignorance lasted until 1992 when I suddenly switched to punk, post punk and alternative (I was particularily impressed by the Velvet Underground, The Stoogies and Joy Division). It was about those times when me and A. Koroliov (who had already played in "Bochonok Amontillado") planned our own project and, finally, orginized a band. This band screweed up in 1994, our drummer and vocalist found themselves more serious jobs, and A. Koroliov returned to "Bochonok Amontillado" (where he was sacked from in eighteen months for his fascist tricks anyway). I sacrificed my room in the student campus to the Amontilladers rehearsals. But then their bass player Masha married some guy all of a sudden. Her place didn't stay vacant too long, though. I've become a full member of the band and I'm very happy with this as well as the rest Amontillado themselves.
In those times my favorite bands were Siouxsie & The Banshees, Violent Femmes, Element of Crime, Dead Can Dance.
Now, being influenced by Gromov and Schultz, I gave myself up to jazz and funk (Weather Report, Chick Corea Quartet, Miles Davis, Freak Power). But good old Violent Femmes and Peppers still pull my strings all the same.
My favorite bass player is Mick Carn.
Apart from my activity in Amontillado I also played bass in the folowing projects:

• Drug Vsekh Druzei (1993) - punk
• Skinny Flute (1994) - alternative
• Blood 13-th steps (1995) - commercial post punk
• Voron (1997) - pop music

Fiodor Gromov (September 28th, 1973)
Guitars

See a comic strip about me
and visit my Gallery
and see my scary doll

I graduated from the University the same year with Andrey, but we studied at different departments. I have MA in the History of Fine Arts. I am not a professional musican. Various guitar players have taught me to drink beer and get plastered quickly. Besides that, I've managed to learn few primitive blues cliches and use them successfully whenever I can. I am influenceda lot by jazz, and, if you wanna know my opinion, I'm positive that the best way to learn guitar is listening to jazz musicans, such as: Al DiMeola, John McLaughlin, Django Reinhard, George Benson, Wes Montgomery and many others too. I consider Jimmy Hendrix the most awesome guitarist of all times and nations.
I started playing guitar since I was 14. My approach to music, however, became more serious after one incident. In 1992 I played at the Bastonada studio at Tamtam club with A. Emeyanov and Shultz. While we were having a break after one session, Schultz went to have a leak, and Emelyanov told me something that became a basic principle in my creative life. "If Schultz is zero in comparence with me, he said, who do you think you are then?..." I came home that night and, for the first time in my life, started to play consciously the C major scale.
And I also "appreciate" a lot Andrey T. Bakhurin inviting me to come onstage with him for the first time, so it has determined my whole life. It can only be compared to drug addiction.

I participated in the following projects during my short life in music:

• Los Machos (1993)
• Zuby&Guby (1997)
• Bastonada Improvising (1998)

The Amontillado band (originally - the Cask of Amontillado) was organized in 1991 by Andrei Bakhurin and Egor Roldugin.

Egor - this is the guy who originated the Amontillado band together with Andrei Bakhurin. He played an electric balalaika. Now Efor is a computer designer. Here you can see his reflection on a polished closet door.

Alexander Emelianoff - the one and only producer of Amontillado. One of the best drummers on the planet (included in the European Top 20 drummers). He runs his own drum school Bastonada and an improvisation project with the same name. It is a sort of honour to us that Emelianoff was our first drummer too.

Alexander Korolev Guitars, alcoholic dances. Mr. Korolev belonges to such sort of people whose ways are unpredictable. This is one of his wedding pictures. I think there are few individuals who's done as much for the RE-PULSE Movement as Korolev.

Maria - the first and the most beautiful bass-girl in Amontillado. You should've seen how she plays bass with her fists. Maria made all the male audience scream with desire. Then she's married and that's the end of the story.

Maria Koval - a background singer and cheerleader in Amontillado. What can we say… she's the bests. The most sexual among the Amontilladers ever. Now Maria is going to Ireland to get a job there. So we'd rather call her O'Koval.

Oleg - We call him Zuscov. And it took us a lot of time before we figured out his real name was Bagautdinov. His guitar solos used to make the walls fall. Now Oleg is a new Russian (whatever that means).

Schultz - played percussion in Amontillado. Professional multi-instrumentalist and composer and translator and boy-scout whatever you may think of.

Lenia - he was what you may call a badass drummer. Screwed us up all the way with his ambitions. Anyway, we have a good memory for Lenia. He used to be pretty cool with his drums.

Alexei Miksher - ex drummer of the Knife Fur Frau Muller. He played hammond organ at the very first show of Amontillado. Got into a fight in a restroom right before the show. You bet his playing was really FULL of emotions.

Masha Jaws and Ania Korolev - have modeled for the first Amontillado video. This video will be completed as soon as we have money for the video capture.
Masha is a splendid photographer and model. You can see her works on her own web-site.

Kolia Esaulenco- he was the most natural individuality we've ever met. All the passions shaking the human kind were alien to him. No one else could spend the whole forty minutes washing his hands before lunch. RE-PULSE was his lifestyle, you may say. One day he went to America to his father and we haven't heard of him ever since.

Vataly (wearing glasses) and his girlfriend Alexandra - Vitaly was the best video-photographer shooting the Amontillado stage shows.

Ivan Khimin - an unforgettable cameraman for Amontillado. Ivan was the chief photographer during the shooting session for the Three Stories EP cover. See a comic strip about Ivan. And you can also visit his originally designed site.

Okopov - uttered the loudest and dirtiest exclamations during the Amontillado stage performances. Currently works as a TV/radio DJ.

Pasha and Dennis from the AGE Design studio. These two guys worked on the cover design for the Three Stories EP.