- with Club Foot Orchestra, Ut Gret and special guests Andrew Voigt, Henry Kaiser, Larry Kassin, Boris Rayskin, etc.
Twenty years ago, in the autumn of 1988, Sergey Kuryokhin toured USA and
in October of that year he performed for three nights in the Bay Area.
Every night he played two sets which started with his long solo
introductions. Some 15-20-30 minutes later he was joined by many American
musicians. On the first night he was joined by the Club Foot Orchestra
consisting of eight musicians, on the second night he played with Andrew
Voight and Henry Kaiser and eight special guests plus two dancers, and on
the third night in Santa Cruz he played again with Andrew Voight and Ut Gret
consisting of seven musicians. These three nights, two sets each, constitute
six CDs. The seventh CD is a bonus - it is a duo recording with Henry Kaiser
which they recorded while Sergey was in California. Some 20 years ago this
disc was released by RYKO disc and was unavailable for a long time.
This 7-CD set is being released as a limited edition of 500 copies which
makes it an instant collector's item because half of the edition will be
shipped to Russia to Nastya Kuryokhina, Sergey's widow, who runs SKIF -
Sergey Kuryokhin International Festival - in St. Petersburg.
