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The project “Fedorov and Kruzenshtern”, created by Leonid Fedorov and the leader of the Israeli Avant-Croup “Kruzenshtern and the Steamboat” Igor Krutyolov, releases a new album “Explosion of Flowers”-and it is amazing.

At first, the explosion happened on an airplane. Leonid Fedorov said that the St. Petersburg artist Arthur Moliev gave him a flight of poems by the tragically deceased poet Dmitry Analiani, with whom he was familiar. Having read the poems on the plane, Leonid realized that Analiani was a man of a huge scale and giftedness. His poetry was for Fedorov a continuation of that understanding of man and the world that Velimir Khlebnikov and Alexander Vvedensky made up. Rather, the transformation of Avaliani’s poems into a song is an echo of the process with Khlebnikov and Vvedensky, Volokhonsky and Khvostenko, whom the LF “entered” with a guitar and a melody into many of his albums. I entered with the help of Vladimir Volkov, Vladimir Martynov, Henri Volokhonsky and many others. But even Volokhonsky did not hear anything about Analiani.

And it rushed. Fedorov played a concert with Igor Krutogolov in the Tel Aviv club , which was strange even for the forever experimenting leader of Auctsyon,-after him they showed it and immediately recorded the first four songs. It was an explosion that at first they did not recognize. The LF was asked by the phone Krutogolov - well, how, what did we write there? Yes, so, nonsense, do not take it in mind, Fedorov answered. Six months later, thoroughly forgetting what happened in the Levontin club, the LF listened to four 16-bit songs-and was stunned and amazed. Six months later, he flew to Tel Aviv and recorded the next four songs with the leader of Kruzenshtern and the steamer, and three months later on the LF solo, again, the ninth song was recorded. In Moscow, the LF thoroughly finalized in the home studio and now believes that this year has become one of the most successful creative periods of life. Still - a record in speed recording in the entire discography of the LF, although the creative process, including half -year oblivion, lasted a whole year.

The poet worked with the difficult elements of the poetry - anagrams, palindromes, panthromas and even came up with a very strange - cowardly and leaflets.

What is on the disk? First of all, I must say who is on the disk . Dmitry Avaliani (1938-2003), who graduated from the Faculty of Geographical Moscow State University, worked for a long time in his specialty, was known for a narrow circle of poets, was printed in the “draft”, at the end of his life worked as a watchman, died under the wheels of a car. The book, which has become a rarity and so struck by the LF, is “Cote d'Azur” (St. Petersburg: Publishing House of Ivan Limbakha, 2000). LF remembered that after the concert a man came up and said: I can give you a huge unrelated archive of Aliani. He said and disappeared, leaving no coordinates. Maybe he will come the next time. The first verse of the book was the first song on the disk ("in the grass"). LF admitted that he had not read anything like this before:

In the grass at the bottom of the grass
At the very bottom of the grass
I slept after surrendering to the bosom
When like a turasan
On the shell of a huge head
It hit the rain - and in the side and in the back
And I realized how terribly long I am
I have opened pupils like pupils
And they were surprised - oh, how surprised

The poet worked with the difficult elements of the poetry - anagrams, palindromes, pantiffs and even came up with a very strange one - perennials and leaflets, similar to Chinese calligraphy, where it is necessary to draw a Russian word so that it turned into another overlapping. For example, “madness” miraculously turns into “the world of merry”, “friend” is “enemy”.

The LF described the album “Explosion of Flower”: “Out-to-Chief was recorded at three concerts with an elementary 16-bit program, and all the sounds of the radio that played on the stage included. At home he was naked with sound and all garbage. When information, I inserted individual sounds and words. ”

The following said the following about his partner Krutogolov: “In my opinion, he is one of the most advanced musicians of his generation, because he quickly evolved from the stage of the group’s follower the“ did not wait ”into a state of steeply avant-garde, unique bass, the initiator of the projects beyond the utopicity. He is an awesome melodist, so it turned out to be jointly generated songs - except for the first, invented by me. ”

And Igor Krutogolov told himself this:

“I did not study either in a musician or at the conservatory, but it all started with the eighth quartet of Shostakovich when I was 12 years old. I remember this moment, it just broke the roof. Before he played on a bass guitar in Israel, he was a drummer in the Pankovskaya group in Tashkent, year in 1989. He emigrated in 1992 with his parents because there was no choice. Moreover, the danger in Tashkent threatened me more than my parents. In Israel, one acquaintance sold me the bass, and I began to gradually learn to play. The first concert of Kruzenshtern and Steamboat was in December 2002, because the drummer Gai Shekhter joined the clarinetist Ruslan Gross. The album of “be everywhere” we recorded the three of us - I, Guy and Lenya. Therefore, there is a lot of space for guitar sound, so guitars sound much more than in Auktsyon, where a powerful wind section always shakes the bass. And the “explosion of flowers” ​​was done together with Lenya. There are generally only guitars.

Fedorov phenomenally owns the voice, only with Tom Waites can be compared in the ability to dramatize sounds.

I have never worked as Lenya works. I spend a huge amount of time on arrangement, thinking over the sound, recording notes, after all. And everything works for him on instant energy emissions. If he grabbed something, it can be done right away.

“Explosion of flowers” ​​is brilliant in the sense of choosing poetry. Analiani is so musical at the level of sound that the main problem was not to spoil, not to block this oxygen with guitars. It is very difficult for me to work with the finished text, he locks me in the cell of meaning, and laziness, on the contrary, easily turns out to open everything open. He phenomenally owns his voice, he can only be compared with Tom Waits in the ability to dramatize sounds. For me, singing is not a serious activity, but rather croiling, this can be seen by the songs “About the fact that I” and “Sketch”, and for laziness the voice is the most important tool.

I do many things in music myself only because it’s easier to do it myself than to look for someone. And by and large, nothing is interested in anything, I’m listening only to the music of the English group Cardiacs - it is so strange that another to listen to anything. Maybe this is an excess of information, or maybe most people are just angry. Most likely, there is not enough strength and enthusiasm, but there is a lot of fear. By the way, your streets are much worse than in Israel, an eternally front -line country. Yes, some rockets fly over your head, but there is no feeling of fear. There is no aggression in people - maybe this climate affects. And here you go around peaceful Moscow, and people look - either anxious, then viciously. ”

What is happening on the "explosion of flowers"? The first song “In the Grass” and the ninth, which gave the name an album, LF has already performed at concerts with Kruzenshtern. The powerful riffs of the Krutogolov bass rhymed with the blows of the magnificent Guy Shechter. The album sounds completely different - strange. A striking monochrome sound is achieved by the absence of drums, the total dominance of two guitars, a mass of strange sound objects and the solo saw of Krutogolov. Yes, and Igor himself collects everything “strange” in his song without the words “sketch”, blessed in an unknown language, and even a counteratradist on which Persell and Kurekhin were bizarrely connected. In the song “More than remained”, the simple verse of Dmitry Ozersky crashes into memory. There is piercing lf-melody, the trend of the “Ozersky” disc “waves”. The song "Head" resembles the sacramental "head-head" from "Winter". But the “head” is obeyed as a prayer built on the very Riff of Krutogolov, which, in fact, “made” the whole plate. This shamanic riff is mutating on to the song “The Poet”, and then opens, comes to the surface and explodes in the final, absolutely chital thing “Explosion of flowers”. In addition, the song “To fly” for some reason reminded me of an undeservedly forgotten disk “Everything is calm in Baghdad”. And the cheerful composition “Pan” frankly looks at the early “Aquarium”. After all, there, too, could easily solo the saw if Kurekhin brought it. And this is great.

The space for the votes and “Fenders” of Fedorov and Krutogolov expands unimaginably, so the album “Explosion of Flower” sounds radically in a new way, which is related to this work with the great plate of “Auktsyon” “There will be no winter” (2000). The same strict, uncompromising sound, rampant absorption of sound “grass” of all original developments of the last time. Hypothesis: LF accumulates sounds, riffs, melodies for a long time, new ideas ripen in the head and foot. Slowly embeds them into albums, and then bam, explosion! A tricent musician catalyzing the collection process comes, everything compactly fits into a strange disk that changes the direction of movement. In 2000, he needed an incredible “Volkov-Triio”, now Igor Krutolov.

At the forefront at the “explosion of flowers” ​​is one of the LF’s favorite ideas about the instrumental suggestiveness of any sound, about the absence of sound division into musical and others, which first appeared on the “purple bottom”. This idea, which inspired Vladimir Martynov on the book “The End of the Time of Composers”, built all the post -mushrooms from Beatles , Coil and Shtokhausen to ... any current music. A 16-bit sound is taken on the “Explosion of Flowers”-at this place, the owners of the Hi-End equipment are frowning: so what? You have to go to concerts.

The presentation of the program and the disc “Explosion of Flower” will be held on May 14 at the Tel Aviv club Levontin, May 21 in the Moscow Cafe Mart and May 23 in the St. Petersburg Club “Cosmonaut”