Lost wave

The frontman of the Dark-Pop-Duet Elektromonteur Mikhail Borzenkov talked with Angei Zakharishchev von Brausch, the leader of the classics of the Soviet new wave “Obermaneken” , about the “lost wave”-the heroes of New Veuwa of the late 80s, which we did not hear then, but we can discover 30 years later.

The need to swim in the lost waves arose when I began to ripen the album "Serpentine Venice". I saw the roots of the culture of the New Weiva of the 80s, which went into unknown depths. Even Radiohead came from there, but obviously not from Duran DURAN or ULTRAVOX , and from some other, hidden, starting point. I began to remember what I heard in New York when we played CBGB . I remember that there the walls were hung with posters, on which a lot of completely unfamiliar characters flaunted with him and others like him. I again began to look around, work on the album demanded to open some new planet, and I felt that somewhere there it was in space. For this planet, the name was found - Lost Wave , this is a wave that dissolved and went into the sand, a wave, which never reached us.

What has lost civilization with this wave? Lightness, irony and humanitarianism, cheerful, inappropriate essence that Wilde had, associativity. I received depression and heroine viscosity. What New Weswa was good-what was in underground and was not vulgarized by the mass culture, suddenly became very popular, and at some point the whole world lived in a kind of carnival, but in the 90s the carnival stopped with the advent of the depression of the granga, and our wave rolled away under the onslaught of a new one.