Timur PANKOV
ALMATY, Sept 9
(THE GLOBE)
With the third album, First Band On the Moon, The Cardigans have announced their arrival as a popband with expanded views, audience, and musical visions.
First Band On the Moon was released all over Europe, Japan and Asia in September 1996. The first single from the album, Lovefool, immediately gained massive MTV airplay and charted high worldwide. In Japan, the album sold more than 300.000 copies in just seven days, making them the best selling international artist, and has already broken the one and a half million limit worldwide.
First Band On the Moon, as the two previous albums, is recorded in the soon-to-be legendary Tambourine Studios in Malm� in the south of Sweden, and produced by Tore Johansson. As for the first two albums Peter has composed the music and Magnus the lyrics. However, First Band On the Moon introduces Nina as a lyrical contributor, writing half of the songs.
In the five years since the band started in J�nk�ping, central southern Sweden, The Cardigans have taken gradual steps toward international recognition. While the debut album Emmerdale (1994) placed the band on the national music map in Sweden, the follow-up Life (1995) took the band into the charts in Japan, US and the United Kingdom. Each and every single from Life reached Top-40 in the UK, and the hit single Carnival went No.1 in Japan, Iceland and Mexico. The re-recording and re-release of Rise & Shine also faced chart success all over the world. Emmerdale has sold 200.000 copies worldwide. Life has sold 1.5 million.
The Cardigans started in 1992 by Peter and Magnus, two souls united by the love for hard rock music, in J�nk�ping. Fuelled by the Rock*n Roll Dream the band relocated to Malm� in order to fulfil the dream. Five years later the band has toured Japan numerous times, covered magazines, appear frequently on MTV; generally, the band has turned into an international matter.
In 1996 the band started the first leg of their extensive world tour supporting the material from First Band On The Moon. The tour first reached Scandinavia and then proceeded to the rest of Europe and Japan. In early 1997 the band returned to Japan and America. By this time the Americans had their eyes and ears wide open for The Cardigans. The hit single Lovefool was included on the soundtrack to the blockbuster motion picture Romeo & Juliet. In January 1997 the song was No.3 on the American airplay chart and was said to be a No.1 single if it had been released. First Band On The Moon charted high on the Billboards charts. During early spring 1997 the band toured US as support to Beck. They also did a short solo tour + promotion in Australia, Taiwan and Hong Kong. In May they went back to the US for another solo tour.In March/April 1997 *Lovefool* was re-released (incl two Todd Terry remixes) across Europe, and entered the UK singles chart at #4 (peaking at #2).
In the summer of 1997 the band played European festivals as well as yet another US tour. The band is currently in the studio recording their new album.
Valery Lapshin
ALMATY, Sept 7
(THE GLOBE)
On Tuesday a solemn event called �Champaign � to everybody!� was held in the club �Dostar Land�. Local admirers and producers of this sparkling drink were invited to the event.
Wit contests and raffling of spirits were held during the evening against the background of music of jazz-band �Almaty� and dances of seductive girls from �The Best� group. Every visitor was offered a glass of champagne produced in Kazakhstan by �Bakhus� company.
According to the organisers, the JSC �Bakhus� is the only Kazakhstan enterprise producing Champagne and cognac. At the present time the company produces 22 types of products.
The reason for this friendly party was the nomination of the head of the Kazakhstan winemaking company �Bakhus� to deputies of the Almaty maslikhat.
The director of the company �Bakhus� Artush Karapetyan is nominated to the city maslikhat in the 4th election district.
The organisers of this event called all visitors to come on October 10 to the polling district and make a correct choice.
September 10, 1977 - Hamida Djandoubi, a Tunisian immigrant and a convicted murderer, becomes the last person executed with the guillotine in France. The guillotine execution device first gained fame during the French Revolution, when physician and revolutionary Joseph Guillotin suggested use of a decapitating instrument as a means of execution. The device was adopted in 1791, and named after Guillotin, although a similar apparatus had been used earlier in Ireland and Britain. During the French Revolution, the guillotine proved quite efficient, decapitating thousands of people, including Louis XVI and Mary Antoinette, king and queen of France.
September 11, 1952 - Dr. Charles Hufnagel of the Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, D.C., achieves a medical first by successfully replacing a diseased aorta valve in a patient�s heart with an artificial valve made of plastic.
September 11, 1959 - The U.S. Congress passes a bill authorizing the creation of food stamps as part of a program to distribute surplus food to Americans living below the poverty line.
September 12, 1953 - Following the death of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev is elected the first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Three years later, at the Twentieth Party Congress, Khrushchev denounces Stalinism and the �personality cult� of Soviet leaders. Major events of his administration include the Soviet suppression of the Hungarian uprising of 1956, and a failed attempt in 1962 to install nuclear missiles in Cuba, known as the Cuban Missile Crisis. He is forced into retirement in 1964, replaced as Soviet leader by Brezhnev and Kosygin.
September 12, 1992 - Dr. Mae Carol Jemison becomes the first African-American woman in space as a payload specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavor. She studies the negative effects of space environment on the human body. Also on board the Endeavor are Mission Specialist N. Jan Davis and Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Mark C. Lee, the first married couple to fly together in space.
September 13, 1991 - The U.S. and the Soviet Union sign an agreement calling for an end to all outside military assistance to the warring factions in Afghanistan. In 1978, Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan in support of a Marxist coup, but were met with unanticipated resistance from the conservative Muslim opposition. Afghan tribesmen, calling themselves �holy warriors,� fought a fierce and bloody guerrilla war against the Soviets. The anti-Soviet factions, bolstered by military arms aid from the U.S. and other sources, eventually forced the Soviet withdrawal in 1989.
The Kosteyev State National Museum. Exhibition of S. Kalmykov, I. Itkind, and V. Eifert�s works, and Rudolf Nuriev�s painting.
From 10.00 a.m. to 6.00 p.m. Closed on Mondays.
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