Leniniana (album)

Leniniana
Studio album by
Kommunizm
Released1989 (formally)[1]
RecordedBase:
September 23, 1989 (editing made of 13 samples included in the track "Leniniana" and later became independent)
Bonus:
see dates § 2013 Wyrgorod edition (CD)
StudioGrOb (Omsk, USSR)
Genre
Length33:36 (HOR)
46:40 (Wyrgorod)
Language
  • Russian
  • Tajik[4]
LabelGrOb[5]
ProducerYegor Letov
Kommunizm chronology
Igra v samoletiki pod krovatyu
(1989) 		Leniniana
(1989) 		Trinadtsat
(1990)
2013 reissue cover

Leniniana (Russian: Лениниана) is the twelfth[6] studio album of the Soviet conceptual band Kommunizm. It is a sound collage based on the phonogram of the film Lenin in October, published on a gramophone record by the Melodiya company.[7][8] Yegor Letov and Konstantin Ryabinov glued inserts together, they played various musical compositions backwards and added third-party records from the field of concrete music, thereby creating a montage mystifying the personality of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin in a humorous manner.

The album was officially released on Caravan Records and HOR in 2001,[9] and it was reissued on April 22, 2013 by Wyrgorod.[10][2]

  1. ^ For other release dates, see § Release history.
  2. ^ a b c GrOb Records and Wyrgorod Publishing House present: Kommunizm Leniniana. 04.21.2013
  3. ^ "Leniniana, created based on the corresponding cinema, can with good reason be called sots art, and spoken word, and plunderphonics, and even more representatively, but, in fact, it is an amateur radio theater." – Article by Maxim Semelyak about the album in the booklet
  4. ^ See fact.
  5. ^ For additional labels, see § Release history.
  6. ^ According to the official GrOb-Records albumography of 1990 and judging by the inscription "Vol. 12" on the album cover of the HOR edition.
  7. ^ Cite error: The named reference Leniniana was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  8. ^ Ленин В Октябре (Фрагменты Из Кинофильма) at Discogs
  9. ^ See references in the Release history section.
  10. ^ Wyrgorod: "The record comes out on April 22, 2013" – which came out, by the way, and was announced by the publisher the day before release (see adjacent reference and reference of section 4).