Music

Seva Gakkel

Local figure

Addresses you can still visit

Every place in this city with a documented tie to this person.

Performed here
Andrei Tropillo's Underground Recording Studio
Played cello on Aquarium’s Tropillo-era magnitizdat albums including The Blue Album (1981), recorded at Tropillo’s AnTrop studio.
Created here
Former TaMtAm Club
The former Aquarium cellist founded and ran TaMtAm as an independent club modeled partly on CBGB.
Performed here
Leningrad Rock Club
Cellist in Aquarium’s classic lineup; Aquarium were founding Rock Club members and festival winners while Gakkel was in the band (to 1987).

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