Алексей Борисов

Alexei Borisov was born in 1960 in Moscow, USSR. In 1983 he graduated from Moscow State University, History Department. He started his music career in 1980 as a guitarist of the first Moscow new-wave band "The Center". In 1981 with guitarist Dmitry Matzenov he organized big-beat-ska-mod band "Prospekt". In 1985 he formed the first Russian techno-industrial duo "Notchnoi Prospekt" with the keyboard-player Ivan Sokolovsky. This project is still active by now, playing concerts and taking part in different festivals in Russia and abroad. "Notchnoi Prospekt" released five albums, one of them ("Sugar") has been released on "Accelerating Blue Fish" label (Malmo, Sweden) in 1990. Since the beginning of the 90-s Borisov plays in electronic duo "F.R.U.I.T.S." (with Pavel Jagun), that became quite well-known in Russia and abroad. Among his latest projects are electronic-ethnic project "Volga" (with Angela Manukjan and Roman Lebedev), "Gosplan Trio" with Moscow saxophonist Serge Letov and experimental duo with Anton Nikkila (Finland). In 2000 Borisov and Nikkila formed "N&B Research Digest" recording label. Among other Borisovs' collaborations are the joint projects with the performance-group "North" (Russia), KK Null (Japan), Jeffrey Surak (USA), Leif Ellgren (Sweden). Borisov also collaborates with the video-artist Roman Anikushin, multimedia-artists Aristarh Chernishev and Vladislav Efimov and also with Olga Subbotina, Moscow theatre director. Lately Borisov prefers solo music career. He also works as a DJ in clubs and on radio and contributed as a journalist to some Russian ("Bulldozer", "Ptjuch", "Fuzz", "Downtown", "man'Music", etc.) and foreign ("B'Mag", "Technikart") magazines and newspapers. His articles are also available on www.kontramarka.ru and www.specialradio.ru Additional information about Alexei Borisov's activity could be found on various Internet portals, such as www.enmuz.here.ru www.nbresearchdigest.com www.shum.info, etc.