Kohuept is culled from Billy Joel's historic tour of the former Soviet Union.
Joel is a first-rate live performer and Kohuept is a nice document of his skills as well as the famous tour.
At the tail end of the Cold War, two years after Mikhail Gorbachev began to liberalize the Soviet Union with his "glasnost" (openness) and "perestroika" (restructuring), Billy Joel became one of the first (if not THE first) American pop-rock superstar to play a series of gigs in the Communist heartland.
In addition to serving as a record of Billy's concert in Leningrad - it would also serve the purpose of providing a long awaited live album that would be a better cross-section of his career.
"Kohuept" means "In Concert" - and for the most part this disc provides Billy Joel's concert in Leningrad.
If you didn't know it, you would think that "Odoya" and "Honesty" were a part of the concert ("The Times They are a Changin" definitely seemed like some external to the concert, but they save it to the end).
Kohuept (Russian for "in concert") is an over-70-minute album recorded live in Leningrad (now called St. Petersburg) and, with the exception of "Odoya," (a Georgian choral piece), the Beatles' "Back in the USSR" and Bob Dylan's enigmatic (yet prophetic) "The Times They Are A Changin', " most...
Amazing is the one word I would use to describe this album, because it s simply that.
I d liked Billy Joel before I got KOHUEPT (hereafter), but just not as much as I did after I heard it.
Through the warm welcome by the Russian audiences and unexpected clashes with the Soviet authorities, Joel carved out a path through the then-Soviet Union that other Western rock acts would follow.
As a souvenir from the monumental tour, KOHUEPT (Russian for "concert") encapsulates some unique performances that are a treasure for any true fan of the piano man. From the opening traditional Russian piece "Odoya," sung by the Georgian singing group Zhournalist, this is a very special performance.
Leading from there into a brilliant rendition of the rocking "Angry Young Man," Joel takes command of the audience like a conquering general.
- Kohuept looks at a changin' times as Joel goes to the USSR
Kohuept (Russian for "in concert") is an over-70-minute album recorded live in Leningrad (now called St. Petersburg) and, with the exception of "Odoya," (a Georgian choral piece), the Beatles'...
The title of this album is the Russian translation of "in concert".
BILLY JOELKohuept (1987 Mexican 16-track live 2-LP set featuring Uptown Girl, Back In The USSR, Angry Young Man & A Matter Of Trust, embossed red picture/stickered sleeve LP2S-460407 - still sealed) -
Kohuept - Concert - Colombian - VINYL LP
BILLY JOELKohuept (1987 Colombian 16-track double vinyl LP recorded live in Leningrad, front laminated gatefold picture sleeve C2L0022) -
Billy Joel : The Collection: Piano Man/52nd Street/Kohuept: Live in Leningrad (2005 Reissue) - Listen, Review and Buy ...(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
This Columbia long-box set, Collection: Piano Man/52nd Street/Kohuept: Live in Leningrad brings together two classic Billy Joel records -- Piano Man and 52nd Street -- with a third: Kohuept: Live in Leningrad, one of his most famous live performance.
Unfortunately, other than the albums themselves being classics, there are no bonus tracks, no remastering, nor any additional material to speak of.
