New name: Harajiev Smokes Virginia

Kazan trio Harajiev Smokes Virginia Recently presented EP “New Songs. May ” - and these are songs, as if played on guitars in the company of Alexander Zatsepin and Stephen Mulkmus, dance rock, inspired by music from Soviet films for youth.

Previously, the group played Severe and nervous mat rocks, and in 2013 released the album "Harajiev Smokes Virginia!" After which they began to compare the team with completely other groups-such as the Australian neopaccolics-Banda Banda Tame Impala . Mini-album "New songs. May ” - the development of the ideas of the second record. There are fewer guitar overload, crooked sizes, screaming, but more melodies (but not concepts, as happens with the current musical heroes of Russian blogs).

Clip for the song "Lake"

Any young man who recently graduated from the university could have sat down - indecisive, sentimental, who wants to live not by care, but with fun, as if in anticipation of great changes. These are songs that sound in the next yard. And I immediately want to go to this courtyard.

“It is clear why we became softer,” says HSV guitarist Igor Shemyakin. - We all have girls, we became home boys. Therefore, the songs have changed. ” “And we learned how to play, so you could already turn off the lotion,” Basist Aidar Gainullin supplements.

Shemyakin and Gainullin are the basis of the team. There is also a drummer Arseny Kovarsky, who at the end of the conversation decides to show his favorite photo where he was shot with the pot. Later it turns out that he knocks in the rap projects "Makulatura".

I will not play in taverns. And I’ll go somewhere to the populists.

An attempt to figure out when it all started leads to a listing of wonderful groups - such as Ginger Was Born in 80's - and events. Although the approximate time is clear - April 2009.

The posthardkor group of The Fall of Troy was leaned. “And we also had a specific goal - to sound like Foals ,” says the guitarist.

Kazan people immediately began to sign up. “It was just part of the process. Music was not something important, ”says Shemyakin. - She was part of the party. Previously, we constantly got into the police, conditional terms hung on us. ”

“And we did the first demo in three hours, played all several times, chose duplicate, where we did not fit much,” Gainullin recalls. Demo'09 published the Nizhny Novgorod label Delicious Music . And the group immediately after the recording went to the tour.

“We all lost 10 thousand then,” Gainullin concludes concludes. - So what? I think all groups of our level are not going on tour for the sake of earnings. It's just fun. ” However, each time they gathered more and more people at concerts - in Nizhny Novgorod they still go in cult heroes.

At first, HSV sounded like this:

The HSV mat rock began to move to EP Black Notch . There are a lot of electronics, synthesizers - this is the merit of Roman Kutnov. He is known as the founder of the Psychedelic project Nole Plastique , who performed the gliti with guitars with the greetings of Sid Barrett. He also had been responsible for samples in the concert composition of NRKTK for quite some time. “We began to proceed from the fact that everyone wants to play. And what is needed in the song, ”says Shemyakin. - Based on the material. And if you do not need to express it overly in it, it is difficult to knock or make a wild bass party - then it is not necessary. But I'm not a dictator. " Gainullin at that moment grunts: "Yes, I can remember dozens of cases how you showed dictatorship."

At the end of the interview, it comes to Kazan itself. “I decided that if nothing changes in a year, then I will leave for the capital. But I will not play in taverns. And I’ll go somewhere to the populists. Now Leps and Agutin are played by the best musicians of the country, ”says Gainullin.

Previously, we constantly got into the police, conditional terms hung on us.

"Have you heard the album " Gangster No. 1 "Leps ?" - retorts Shemyakin. It turns out that the bassist is much less familiar with the work of the country's main pop artist. “I recently read Lagutenych, and he said correctly: do not leave for the capital, we need to develop a local scene. In Yekaterinburg, people did something. We also need to do something, ”Shemyakin goes into reasoning.

At concerts, they hope to recapture expenses by recording, and now they now perform in Kazan once every six months. “Completely forgotten people come with whom you have not crossed for a long time. Classmates, classmates, people from old parties. In Kazan, nothing happens especially. But I think that now they talk about any city now. Of course, we have to go to us. We just recently began to think how to make good notes. First of all, we are a concert group. We don’t have to listen to us, we need to dance under us. ”

July 26 Harajiev Smokes Virginia performs at the festival "God's cow" in Kaliningrad