Vadim Petrenko a former member of the legendary Russian band ZGA
The group was formed in March 1984 in the city of Riga (USSR) by Nikolai Sudnik and guitarist Valery Dudkin.
The band’s first vinyl record was released in 1989 in England on ReRecommended Records, which was created by the famous avant-rocker and experimentalist Chris Cutler. Later on, the same label also released some other band recordings. A year later ZGA becomes quite famous, the BBC company is filming a film about it.
In 1990, the ZGA records new material at the studio in Riga and starts performing at foreign festivals in Canada, Austria, Sweden and Germany and other countries.
The ZGA group is a participant of the New Music of America experimental music festival, which includes such musicians as Einstürzende Neubauten, The Residents, Fred Frith, Test Department, Kronos Quartet, and others…
Vadim Petrenko is also a participant of the solo project by Nikolai Sudnik - Opera 24.
Discography / audio / group ZGA and Opera-24:
zgamusic.bandcamp.com
Having embarked on a solo career, Vadim Petrenko releases and distributes his recordings over the Internet. He continues to explore the non-compromised approach to music. Vadim Petrenko plays the guitar, uses sound generators and electronic touch instruments such as koto, guzheng, chinese erhu, chinese lute, piano, taiko etc. When composing his music and performing live, he plays making direct physical contact with the instruments.
E-mail:
vadimpetrenko@me.com Facebook:
facebook.com/profile.php?id=100022845650696
Addresses of sites with music by Vadim Petrenko:
soundcloud.com/user-645100657 vadimpetrenko.bandcamp.com zgamusic.bandcamp.com/album/zgamoniums zgamusic.bandcamp.com/album/opera-of-the-fourtheenth-hour zgamusic.bandcamp.com/album/opera-of-the-eighth-hour Video:
youtube.com/watch?v=HGfx4O0fAeM&feature=youtu.be youtube.com/watch?v=2FujtAmKxbY youtube.com/watch?v=0A-gB4cITTI youtu.be/nah6iUI2eSE