So that evil becomes less

DDT will play in Moscow its main songs-from the eighties to 2017

They began to roll the program "History of Sound" last fall. We drove half the country and now reached Moscow. On the one hand, this is a powerful retrospecification, the best songs of the group have been collected for the entire time of its existence, more than thirty years. All in the highest class: setting, video, sound. It is not for nothing that DDT carries several equipment trailers, screens with video art, multimedia installations with him on tour. Less, of course, than Rolling Stones, but also a lot. In the eighties, when Shevchuk, leaning over an old microphone, sang “I am a church without crosses ...”, such a sound and such a show were unrealistic. And today - quite.

On the other hand, there is really a story of sound. Everyone knows him as a poet, a person who shouts from the stage correct and important words, but not everyone notes that Shevchuk and his people are strong, non -banal musicians. He went a long way in music. In the Ufa period, a rather tough hard rock played. Then, during the persecution, he became a bard. In his arsenal, in the archive of the group you can find powerful Russian blues, waltz, and rap, and industrial with indie - at all anything. Saxophone, violin, computer samples. The search does not stop.

And according to Shevchukov’s songs, it is easy to track the history of the country from the eighties to this day. In each of them, the time clamped in the vice beats.

1980s. “Major boys”, “Do not shoot”, “Mom, I love Lyuber.” Golden youth, war in Afghanistan, banditry in conjunction with official ideology.

1990s. “A foreboding of the Civil War”, it has not gone anywhere since then, this is a foreboding. “Dead city. Christmas ”is a war again, but already Chechen.

2000s. "The missing", "Flower of August." “Our Titanic drowned in shampoo and vodka”, “and, as usual, after the dead lions wander, analyzing their bones, jackals”, “Freedom of lies, boss, again/tale, tell me to evil, tell the goats” ... This is about all of us into zero.

And finally, 2010s. “When oil and gas are completed,” “Third World” ... began with a war, and in thirty years it has not gone anywhere. Only the names are changing.

The through topic is war, a through topic - its foreboding. But not only. There is a revolution in which the “injustice of good” and love, bitter, troubled. But the main thing is that he is tormented by is there a humane scheme, is there a way out: “Young troublemakers are now scolding the system,/For good, they go to the fight, to the prison and on the block./I understand them all, but is there a humane scheme? But even if there is no way out, but confirmations that he is not, - the car, he still does not give up, continues his work.

“Now there is some kind of separation,” says Shevchuk, “and the main task of any artist remind you that we are people. So that we do not forget about good, about the world. So that evil was smaller. "

You can not agree with him as much as you like, call an idealist, say that everything is pointless, that nothing will work out. But they play the program "History of Sound" for two and a half hours. And at this time, evil really becomes less.

March 5, SK "Olympic", 19.00