Soviet and Russian sound engineer and music publisher Andrei Tropillo died at the age of 74. As Fontanka learned, he died on Sunday night, but his colleagues were told about Tropillo’s death just today, May 1.
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Division– I only found out about this today. On Friday, he left colleagues to go to his home, and stopped communicating with him. When we arrived at his home, we found a body,” former guitarist of the Picnic group Alexander Savelyev told Fontanka.
The funeral was organized by the music producer’s daughter Polina; she plans to bury her father’s body in St. Petersburg, Savelyev said. The case, according to him, is complicated because it is necessary to transport the body from Finland, but because of the holidays everything has stopped.
Ten years ago, Andrei Tropillo underwent surgery in Sweden, and since then he has been living on pills.
The material was corrected: it was first reported that Andrei Tropillo died on the night of Saturday, April 27, but later Alexander Savelyev reported that everything happened on Sunday night.
Andrei Tropillo was born in Leningrad in the family of radar engineer Vladimir Tropillo. He is famous for his contribution to the creation and development of Russian rock – he recorded many musicians at the recording club in the House of Young Technicians, which he directed. In his unofficial studio “AnTrop” albums “Time Machine”, “Aquarium”, “Kino”, “Alice”, “Zoo” and many others were born. Tropillo organized concerts for musicians, and was sometimes a musician and backup singer when recording albums. In the 90s, Tropillo launched the production of audio records, and in 1999 he built a plant for the production of compact discs.
In January 2022 Tropilo he ended up in the hospital with coronavirus and double pneumonia, and already last June, together with the bass guitarist of the group “Automatic Satisfiers” Evgeniy Titov organized The first festival of Russian rock club.
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