Luke to the east

The V-ROX 2015 festival began with a storm warning. The typhoon “drive” was going on to Vladivostok from Japan. In the news of the federal channels, a possible scale of the disaster, scaring the audience with paintings by destruction in the Philippines, has already been shy. Opening the V-ROX educational program, the curator and ideologist of the showcase festival Ilya Lagutenko held a comic session of the element conspiracy, arranging Shamanian dances with a tambourine. Oddly enough, it helped - the typhoon weakened to the cyclone. On Wednesday, a fierce bad weather fell on Vladivostok - a rain with a wall and a fluid wind, trees were falling in the city center, but the festival scenes erected on the embankment of the sports harbor stood. At the concert of the British rockers of Echotape , opening on Thursday night the V-ROX club program in Mumiy Troll Bar, despite the flood on the streets of Vladivostok, gathered a full hall . Between the formidable clouds, hope began to glorify.

Where else in Russia you can listen to the legends of Korean and Chinese rock along with international young animals?

The 2015 V-ROX , as for many, has become a crisis year: an unfavorable economic situation and extreme weather conditions have been overlapping each other, but the festival with dignity sailed from the storm and some more approached the shore of the dream of Lagutenko-to the international fair of talents of the scale of Glastonbury or Koachalla. Already now, the V-ROX turns Vladivostok into a tourist-cultural city-hat, where the East meets with the West.

The thinking and dreaming Ilya Lagutenko calls the V-ROX first show-class festival in Russia; This is pure truth. Until August 2013, when the first V-ROX took place, we had nothing similar. Now there is Colisium Music Week in St. Petersburg . Next week, the first attempt to reduce young groups with industry professionals will take place in Moscow called Mosco Music Week . But while the V-ROX , where more than 300 participants from 14 countries have performed, remains out of competition in scale. By the scale of involvement in city life- V-ROX , occupying the central walking embankments of Vladivostok, is the main city event in the velvet season. On a geographical scale-on V-ROX they go from the USA, and from Kyrgyzstan, and from Japan; According to the concentration of exotic - where in Russia you can listen to the legends of Korean and Chinese rock along with international young animals?

There could be more participants of the V-ROX if Vladivostok was not so far away, and the flight to the Knevichi airport is so expensive. Conducted without the support of the state and international corporations, the showcase festival cannot bring indie musicians to the capital of Primorye at its own expense, and should not. Young groups themselves should find the opportunity to show themselves to a new audience and a promising market. It is good that now large companies began to come to the aid and organizers of the festival. For example, the brand J A Germeister , which purposefully supports Russian indie music, acquiring the Indie Awards Award and electronic music magazine J A Gervibes , brought to the Muscovites of Muscovites Mana Island and On-The-Ho and arranged a couple of parties as part of the Night program of the festival, which became the events of the month For the Vladivostok hip constructure. Let's hope that other companies will follow J A Germeister .

What indie groups need to strive for V-ROX ? First of all, those who, following the “Mummy Troll” and Linkin Park , who had just visited the tour in China , think that more people live in Asia than in Europe and America, and this market little studied by “Western” musicians is very attractive. Eastern expansion is now possible not only for Linkin Park caliber heavyweights. Not too well-known rock groups from Siberia and Belarus are already going to China with concerts in China. V-ROX is the only hatch to the east that is available to the Russian musician. Listening to the showcase festival of peers from Korea, China and Japan and communicating with representatives of Asian labels and festivals, you can understand whether your group is ready for dialogue with the East. According to Ilya Lagutenko, this question became the leitmotif of the educational and musical parts V-ROX 2015.

Is the East to perceive Russian music? Can a Russian group make a name for themselves in the sophisticated sound of Japan, business-oriented South Korea and inexperienced China? According to the V-ROX 2015 festival, the impression was that yes, there would be good music. One of the main songs of the festival was the Korean version of the “blood group”, executed by Seoul Rock Masters of YB . 10 years ago, the leader of YB Yoon Do-Hyun ) discovered the “Kino” group and became a big fan of her songs. At the festival, he appeared exclusively in T -shirts with prints in honor of Viktor TSOI .

Information on the potential conquerors of the East: judging by the Asian groups that performed at the V-ROX 2015, in Japan in honor, virtuosity and sophistication, in Korea-high technology, in China they love freaks, and in Mongolia-all who can hold tools in their hands. Some Russian groups, who arrived at the V-ROX , were surprised to learn that their music was known in Ulan-Bator and they were already waiting with tour there.

A little more-and our east!

Further-several notable groups V-ROX 2015. Choosing Denis Boyarinov

Korean rock: yb, Phonebooth and Victim Mentality

The main opening of the festival for me was the high level of Korean rock bands. And the Seoul masters with 20 years of experience YB , and younger and flexible Phonebooth , and wild Glam-metallists Victim Mentaly sawed guitar riffs so selfless that for a moment it seemed: right tomorrow Kay rock would conquer the world.

The most crazy group of the festival was, of course, from Japan. The duet of the apert bassist Haru and the drummer Masumi, who turns behind the installation into a multi-armed parvati,, by his own definition, is played by a quick-firing punk jazz, and we can also say that they bring down the listener of the typhoon of sounds.

Junk Riot

The Junk Riot Tallinans play in an epileptic sound, for some reason popular now among young people: a seamless rhythm, a simple melody and detached vocals. In such a manner, groups from the clip of the pain festival are now playing, and Junk Riot will get there soon. Nevertheless, it is nice to hear songs in a meaningful Russian from the Estonian group, when most musicians-sophisticans prefer English.

If we talk about the convertible music, which will be clear in the east and in the West, then the most chances of what he saw on V - Rox probably has electronics, scaled to the size of the stadium. The Moscow producer Oiki makes the verified Big Room crafts on the covenants of the scrolllex, to which young people are happy to jump with pleasure. Music Anton Maskeliade It is much more complicated - this is not Edm , it is IDM , a monumental pile of sounds and effects. But in large spaces of the sound structure, the Masqueliad is not lost, and the musician is not afraid of the mass accumulations of the people, impressive the audience with expressive dances over the traffic controller.

From Vladivostok, I most remember a group that least wanted to like. The duet of Bio Via Ai Zi - one of the projects of the local leader of the counterculture, nicknamed Lenya Chelyuskin - with a good drive is played by a mocking garage rock, rushing from a mockery to absurdity. In China (and in most cities of Russia) this will definitely not be understood - and not necessary.