Liamkins started as the act of Yury (stage name George) Lyamkin, a Moscow based musician and songwriter. He originally formed a band called The Plane in Moscow in 2002 afterwhich NME (New Musical Express, Russian edition) released on its CD his song "One Diamond". Yury then when on to perform in trend-setting Moscow clubs and achieved more fame when Play magazine chose his song "No one can play" for its CD in 2005.
Yury then changed the name of his band to Updiverss, and recorded his first album 'I Am Happy With My Jacket' at the Woodhouse Studio (Hagen, Westfalen) with the producers Siggi Bemm and Dan Diamond.
Updiverss' songs are played by European radio stations (Krass Radio-Germany, Pulse Rated-UK, Radio Netherland, Belarus Radio Stations). Their song "Treasure" peaked at number one in the top 50 of Midnight Special Blues Radio (Paris, 2009). The band took part in many festivals, for example Linz fest (Austria, 2005) and the biggest rock-fest in Russia 'Nashestviye' (2009).
In 2010 Yury formed his current band, Liamkins which regularly performs in Moscow arenas and the internet radio Poptastic Radio.
In May 2012, Liamkins musicians teeamed up with Michael Ponkratyev (drums) and the producers, Andrey Sinyaev and Timur Dolotkazin at MMS Records to create their album "Reason Softly Speaks Or Just Make It Louder".
"Time Rules" is LIAMKINS new original album, recorded back in the
fall of 2021, but the work (mixing) on which was completed by the spring
of 2022.
During this period, another LIAMKINS album "Myth Seller"
was recorded and released, which was ahead of the release time of the
album "Time Rules". This often happens in the practice of some musical
groups.
The genre of the presented album is classic pop with elements of soul music and rock and roll. It included 11 songs.
Focus tracks (in the author's definition):
What She Told Me, Happiness Sleeping, Crumb, Let It Begin, Lonesome, My World.
It does not have "samples", "feats".
Without the use of vocal tuning programs and other artificial post-production techniques.