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There are at least three bands or artists under this name:

* Кино - Russian rock band
* Kino - British progressive rock band
* Kino, who plays shamisen in a modern style.
* KiNo is the poet of sound and image, Psychedelic Rock’s new leading figure, maker of the concept album Map of the UNiverse.

1. Кино (“Kino”, Russian for Cinema or Movie) was a Russian band headed by Виктор Цой (Viktor Tsoi). They were one of the most famous Russian rock groups of the 1980s.



The band was formed by Виктор Цой, Aleksei Rybin and Oleg Valinskiy in the summer of 1981 in Leningrad, USSR (now St. Petersburg, Russia) as a band Garin i giperboloidy (after a novel by Aleksey Tolstoy, Giperboloid inzhenera Garina, published in English as Engineer Garin and His Death Ray). A year later the name of the band was changed to Кино (often written in uppercase: “КИНО”). Since rock music was considered “anti-Soviet”, Кино, like other rock bands, performed only in semi-underground clubs and at musicians’ apartments (so-called “kvartirniks”).

In the summer 1982, Кино’s first album 45 (according to its length in minutes) was recorded together with the musicians of the band Аквариум. The album was slowly distributed via underground channels and gave an apparent fame to the group.

The first real hit was the album Noch (Russian for Night) released in 1986; the six songs from the album were included in the Red Wave: 4 Underground Bands from the USSR compilation disc released in the U.S. in 1986.
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