The "official" foundation date of the keyboard-guitar project Eternal Wanderers is July 1997 though the first songs had appeared much earlier.
For a long time there were two members in the project: Elena Kanevskaya (vocals, keyboard), Tatyana Kanevskaya (guitar), and only in 2006 EW were joined by a bassist and a drummer, and became at last a true rock band.
At present Eternal Wanderers are:
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Elena Kanevskaya - vocals, keyboards. Musical education: musical school, the rock college "Krasny Khimik" , individual trainings and self-education. Elena is very much obliged to a jazz pianist and at the same time an distinguished electronic music composer Odyssey Bogussevich, outstanding singers Natalia Knyazhinskaya and Ekaterina Belobrova . Musical preferences: classical rock, hard rock, psychedelic and art rock - the Beatles, Pink Floyd, ELP, Yes, Deep Purple, Steve Morse Band, Led Zeppelin, Eloy, Zoar, King Crimson, Dream Theater, Queensryche, Shadow Gallery... RIO - Art Zoyd, Univers Zero, Present, Shub-Niggurath, Magma, Thinking Plague, Hoyry-Kone... traditional electronic music and electroacoustic experiment - Bernd Kistenmacher, Klause Schulze (early works), Solitaire, Alpha Flight, Vangelis, Hildegard Westerkamp, John Appleton, Kristoff K. Roll, Michel Redolfi... , and also profound ambient.
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Tatyana Kanevskaya - guitar, back vocals. Musical education: musical school, the rock college "Krasny Khimik" , individual trainings and self-education. Special respect to a very cool guitarist Alexander Kuteynikov! Musical preferences are generally the same as Elena's. Among guitarists may be named Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Vinnie Moore, Steve Howe. The most favourie guitarist is Steve Morse (Steve - forever! :))
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Dmitry Shtatnov - bass guitar, back vocals. Musical education: musical school and self-education. Besides EW, Dima is the founder and leader of the art rock band Quorum where Lena is a back vocalist. Musical preferences: Genesis, Yes, Rush, ELP, Pink Floyd, Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Peter Gabriel, Loituma... (the list can be continued:). Hobby: photo, opensource, computer games
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Sergey Rogulya - drums. Musical education: individual trainings and self-education. Sergey is also one of the founders of the rock band Den Rozhdenya (Birthday). Musical preferences: Nightwish, Rammstein, Animal Jazz, Covenant, Enigma, Hacate, The Chemical Bros., Orgiya Pravednikov, Agata Kristi, Linda. Hobby: painting, drawing, motorcycles.
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Dmitry Drogunov - flute, recorder Musical education: self-education, studies at pop-jazz college "Consort". He is also grateful to those people who shared with him their musical knowledge: Alexey Batenin, Svetlana Soldatenkova, Evgeny Nalivaev, Kristina Obolenskaya, Makhach Abdulpatakhov. Musical preferences: composers Nobuo Uematsu, Noriko Matsueda, Yasunori Mitsuda, Kenji Ito, Bjorn Lynne, Robert Miles, Jivan Gasparyan, Yury Chugunov and Inga Yanik; rock & pop bands and artists Apocalyptica, Dream Theater, Enigma, Joe Dassin, Nighwish, Pink Floyd, A. Marshal, Nevidimki, Noch. Dmitry also gives preferences to unknown and little known artists. Hobby: philosophy, self-perfection and self-knowledge, swimming, mountain bike travelling.
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The first demo-tape was recorded by means of four-channel multitrack taperecorder at the end of 1998. (It is possible only to wonder how "green" it was.) And EW immediately started performing concerts actively in Moscow clubs and at festivals. In November 1998 EW won the 1st prize at the rock festival "Talant-ROCKS" in Sergiev Posad, a suburb of Moscow, and in April 1999 became laureates of the festival of students' creative activity "FESTOS-Rock-99" in Moscow. In 2000 EW won the 2d place at the fesival "FirmA-2000". In December 2001 EW played a solo concert with slide show in the conference hall of INEOS (The Hetero-Organic Compounds Institute).
In 2001 - 2005 EW released three compositions in compilation CDs: Electroshock Presents: Electroshock Presents: Electroacoustic Music Vol. IX, Electroshock Presents: Electroacoustic Music Vol. VII and Following The Sun. The Compilation of Another Music. In this period EW didn't play concerts (except a few cincerts at home studio) and concentrated at creative activity and recordings.
In April 2006 EW formed a true full rock band, and since that time a new page in the story of the band began. After some months of rehearsals EW made a one-hour concert program with video clips. Video was made together with Georgy Belov (NomaD) who made slide-show in 2001. In December 2006 EW played the first concert with the new members of the band in a Moscow club "Mezzo Forte". Since that time EW play concerts, though not often.
On June 6th 2007 EW presented the first studio art-rock album The Door to a Parallel World.
You can see more information about EW's creative activity here.
Just after the presentation of The Door to a Parallel World EW's drummer Sergey Alyamkin left the band. Sergey played in the band more than a year - since April 2006 and played a great part in the formation of the band. So, thanks for everything, Sergey! :)
At the moment the band is working with the new concert program and a new studio art-rock album. EW also plan to revise recordings made for the electronic album for publishing.