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Zodiaks


Zodiac is an electronic-pop/rock band from Latvia. Founded in 1979 and led by keyboardist and composer Juris Kulakovs it was titled Arka (The Arch). In the very same year, while recording their first album, Juris left the band because of musical disagreement with all the rest of members. Keyboardist and composer Jānis Lūsēns took the leadership. In 1980 the band was renamed to Zodiac. The first line-up was: Jānis Lūsēns - keyboards and composing Ainars Ašmanis - bass guitar Andris Sīlis - guitar Andris Reinis - percussion Zane Grīva - keyboards All members were students form Latvian conservatoire with average age of 20. In the beginning Zodiac played only instrumental music. Because of that time sound equipment inapplicabilities for live playing, Zodiac was a studio-type band. In 1980 Zodiac recorded their first album - legendary Disco Alliance. Though in global level this album was nothing special (many of that time space/electronic bands (e.g. Space, Kraftwerk, J.M. Jarre etc.) were playing very analogical genres), in USSR it made an explosion in music (for some reasons all previously named bands were forbidden in USSR). Disco Alliance was sold in 20 million copies in Soviet union only and it was a grand success for that time (even now it's a huge issue). For some reasons, Andris Sīlis, Zane Grīva and Ainars Ašmanis left Zodiac and in 1982 Ivars Pilka (bass guitar), Dzintars Sagens and Aivars Gudrais (both played guitar) joined the band. This line-up recorded...

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