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“It will be a show like the companies,” Kirill Ivanov laughs the SBPC frontman. “During the time that we are preparing it, I have heard the phrase“ like firms ”a thousand times.” Cyril and I are standing in one of the empty halls of the Moscow Museum, in the womb of which there is now preparations for the unusual presentation of the new album of the St. Petersburg group called "We are a huge animal, and we will eat you all!" “Concert Permans, a concert surge, concert trip”, as the group announces it on social networks.
“When the director Evgeny Silaev and I met for the first time to discuss what this show will be,” Kirill Ivanov continues to tell, “I, as an example, gave the performance of the Knife group, which made a huge impression on me. There are 20 people on stage, and it is completely incomprehensible what is happening on it: someone is dancing, someone plays. Wild buzz! And Zhenya showed me the Roger Waters show “The Wall” - there is a scope: a cyclopean video wall flying on the viewer helicopters, special effects, kilowatts of light ... I feel almost Roger Waters - a team of 40 people works with us. ”
Judging by the rehearsal process, which has been going on in the Moscow Museum for almost a week, the SBPC concert will look like the arithmetic mean between The Knife and Roger Waters. For the first time in the history of the St. Petersburg indie group, which experimented a lot with a musical and concert form, dramaturgy, scenery and scenography will appear in their performance, which, however, can not be told about almost nothing so as not to spoil the audience with prepared surprises. You can talk about what will not be in this show: video stories like “The Wall” and in general video projection, which has become an integral detail of almost any concert in the 21st century. "We are a huge animal, and we will eat you all!" -The show is one hundred percent needlework as the famous “Performance” made by Pet Shop Boys in 1991. The last week, a team of 40 people who settled in the Moscow Museum is working to glue, sew, solder, inflate, hang, arrange and collect everything that was invented by director Evgeny Silaev together with the artist Nadia Lapshina and choreographer Irina Galushkina. And then disassemble and assemble the Izvestia Hall inside the club again. For one day, because this concert will never happen again.
© SBPChSBPC is preparing its disposable show in collaboration with Dreampro Production Company, which implements large-scale events like official meetings as part of the BRICS summit of 2015 or lush bonuses of glossy magazines. The St. Petersburg group and the Moscow company, which went down in musical and aesthetic tastes, work together for the third time. Prior to this, they collaborated in two large concerts on the Strelka, which became noticeable events of the Moscow summer, who was saturated with concerts, prepared a “psychedelic adventure” and a “big space journey” together. But "We are a huge animal, and we will eat you all!" -This is a transition to a new level for both SBPCs and for the entire Russian indie scene.
"The largest simple number" - "psychedelic adventure"
“When Zhenya Silaev helped us make concerts on the“ arrow ”, he all the time complained that there was not enough time to come up with something serious,” says Kirill Ivanov, sweeping the tape of a secret group under the name “Super Magagigaconcele” on a smartphone, which discusses the details of the future show-from costumes to promotional stickers. - When we recorded a “huge animal”, we sent a demon to his wife, and he immediately began to invent. A lot of things have been invented - we have a bunch of ideas, but the main thing is that we will have a drama of performance built on surprises. This show will pull the viewer out of reality. ”
Kirill Ivanov and I look at a large-scale decoration collected for the show, in which an concert trip will take place. She reproduces the interior of a bohemian St. Petersburg apartment: a kitchen littered with all sorts of things, a TV on the Ikeev dresser, the front door with three stickers with the image of Jesus, a hall with a grandmother's cabinet, on which the golf clubs, and a bicycle on the wall, a window behind which some kind of tree, and double bed are loomed. Between the furniture, as if collected on Avito , musical instruments have been stuck - drum installation, guitar combi and racks with microphones. The scenery is not at all fake: you can live in this apartment-to fry the fried eggs in the kitchen and watch the TV, which, speaking secretly, will be demonstrated during a hitch concert. Kirill Ivanov notes that DreamPro employees literally live in this improvised apartment. To prove his words from somewhere in the darkness, a bearded guy emerges, goes to the bed and begins to screw the second nightlight against the wall. On the contrary of the decoration, right in the center of the rehearsal hall, at the table, caught by empty coffee cups, the second person in the “SBPC” Ilya Barayy sits and, not being distracted by anything, looks at MacBuk. On his face is the seal of extraordinary concentration.
© SBPCh“We never did this and is unlikely to be able to repeat,” Anton Kurilchik, director of SBPC, joins our conversation. -We are an indie group. To organize such a number of people, we probably would need a year and scary to imagine how much money. But DreamPro are the professionals of the organization. And here everyone works for the idea. All in order to make a unique thing. ” “I like the most that this concert is man -made,” adds Kirill Ivanov. - I want to make a thing large -scale, but alive. As a Talking Heads concert “Stop Making Sense” , which Jonathan Demme shot. To make it powerful and energetic, but made by people, not biorobots. ”
So that the disposable man-made show “The Greater Smart of the Supreme Highway” torn the viewer from reality, musicians who will go on stage (Kirill Ivanov, Ilya Baray, guitarist Anton Khabibulin, drummer Oleg Zanin, singer Zhenya Borzykhi and Nadia Gritsevich, vocalist Valery Kogan and Alena Dolbik and young vibrophonist Makar), you need to play more than a dozen songs with the accuracy of biorobots, without being out of the temporary schedule painted in the tacts. The most difficult part of the Hirpe concert is to synchronize the actions of musicians, complicated light score and actors involved in the performance. “Synchronization is terribly interesting,” Ilya Baramia smiles, who decided to break away from his MacBook for a moment. - Now I am sitting and erase the lengths of the songs. With such accuracy, I did not calculate the arrangement before. But there will be a powerful effect if everything works. It like how we prepared bombs in childhood: sharpen magnesium, then sulfur from matches. You prepare this mixture for half a day, then you go into the yard, one second - bydis! And all - you can go home. "