''Abo abo'' ( uk, Або або; en, "Either … Or") is a live album by Ukrainian rock band

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and the band's first official release. It was released in 1992 and is taken from a concert at the

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festival in France in 1991. The concert was recorded by an unknown Frenchman with a Maxell cassette and was given to the band.

Track list

The vinyl version of ''Abo abo'' has the first 7 tracks plus the first 18 seconds of Rassvet on side A and the rest of Rassvet plus tracks 8 through 14 on side B. Track 1 has never been officially released anywhere else. Tracks 2-5, 9, 11 and 12 were released on

Kraina Mriy ''Kraina Mriy'' ( uk, Країна Мрій, en, The Land of Dreams) is the debut studio album by Vopli Vidopliassova. It was originally released in 1994 on BSA Records. When Vopli Vidopliassova's "French period" (1990-1996) ended, the band retu ...

. Track 6 was released on Fayno. Tracks 10 and 13 were released on Hvyli Amura and tracks 7 and 14 were released on Buly denky. Track 8 later was recorded by

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as "Konforka" and released on their self-titled single "/bɔːʃ/" in 2002. In 1993, the album was reissued on vinyl. A gig with a similar setlist, performed in

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in 1991, was released on the bootleg cassette Zhittya v Bordo in 1995. On the Australian iTunes Store, the name of the album is censored due to the word ''

abo The ABO blood group system is used to denote the presence of one, both, or neither of the A and B antigens on erythrocytes. For human blood transfusions, it is the most important of the 43 different blood type (or group) classification system ...

'' coincidentally being an ethnic slur in Australian English referring to

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. The Ukrainian word is pronounced and the Australian one is pronounced .

Personnel

* Oleg Skripka - vocals, accordion, rhythm guitar * Yuri Zdorenko - vocals, lead guitar * Alexander Pipa - bass * Sergei Sakhno - drums

External links

Abo abo on Discogs (list of versions)
1992 live albums Vopli Vidopliassova albums {{1990s-punk-album-stub