Dead songs

September 12 and 13 in both Russian capitals sang and played by the Geneva group The Dead Brothers .

"Once we live!" - Such, if briefly, the life and creative philosophy of The Dead Brothers , the gangs of cosmopolitans with the base in Geneva, who have been in Europe for almost 15 years with their drunken rollers, macabric blues, sinful state gospels and the last tango.

It is possible and a little longer. Before establishing The Dead Brothers , the leader of the group Alain Kverbalian studied sociology at the University of Geneva. “Our subject was death and how Western society slowly but surely invented the fear of death,” Alain tells me in correspondence. “In the Middle Ages, people were not afraid of death, they did not even think of resisting her arrival - she was a deliverance from a bad existence in this world.”

From the university, the future leader of the Dead Brothers made a belief that the fear of death is useful only to the capitalists. “People who do not give a life in this world and things that they can buy while alive cannot be forced to abandon themselves and become part of an inhuman factory mechanism. If we still die, then why die at work? So that some old sad idiot could buy a sports car and fuck with a model? The only way out of all this is to begin to treat death again as something normal, get rid of this fear, behind which we do not see life, and finally begin to rejoice. This is the Dead Brothers mission. "

If fate knocks on the door to the lyric hero The Dead Brothers, he will meet her grinning and with a bottle of whiskey in his hand.

Before establishing The Dead Brothers , Krugluyan played for almost twenty years in the punk group The Maniacs , but in his new project decided to start from scratch-to do something that would have acted regardless of whether he has a scene, an amplifier or, say, a drummer. In the first instrumental composition of The Dead Brothers , for example, there were only two tube and megaphone, and a lift or table in some cafe often served as Alena's scene. Since then, the group, through which more than twenty people have passed, has accepted a variety of configurations. Recently, the accordion, and the wind, and the gangjo with Hillbill-scripts were included, but that at the very beginning, that now the concerts of The Dead Brothers are reminiscent of the performances of “wandering healers”, charlatans selling “snake oil”. This is a stray circus, and, apparently, impressive enough to get an invitation to perform at the jazz festival in Montre.

If you look for the musical analogies of The Dead Brothers , then the first thing that comes to mind is Tom Waits of the Franks Wild Years period and the torn Rednecks Those Poor Bastars . There are “brothers” repertoire and covers on Bauhaus and The Undertones , and Krugluyan himself says that The Dead Brothers play the European version of rock and roll: “Rock-n Roll is a European folklore mixed with African rhythms. We take about the same ingredients and mix them again, only this time in Europe. ”

The fifth of the Swiss album is called “The 5th Sin- P Honie” today, and it sounds so that if fate knocks on the door to the lyric hero The Dead Brothers , he must think, will meet her grinning and with a bottle of whiskey in his hand.