Kira lao. "OHMSK" and "DELAY"

On March 17, the Powerhouse will host a concert presentation of the new album Kira Lao “Anxious Experience” , which is released after a pause of four years. During this time, a lot of things managed to happen-for example, the Kira Lao group, once marked by the awards of the Indians and the Steppe Wolf, ceased to be a group and turned into the solo project of the singer Kira Weinstein. Colta.ru represents two songs from the upcoming album and the story of Kira himself about what is happening on the album, what happened in these four years and in general what the hell is happening.

Kira lao - "ohmsk"

About the pause between albums

After the "water" it became clear that this could not continue. And I began to think - good, but how can I? I realized that in creativity I really depend on other people-for example, from the members of the group-and decided to become more autonomous, to get some kind of education related to the sound. I quit my job and went home, to Veliky Novgorod, to write my solo album. It was in the summer of 2015-I went home with all my things and took my old diary on the road with me as a reading. I led him when I was just moving to Moscow-I experienced many mixed feelings while I read it, but I found this line on one of the pages: “I want to go to Rodchenko’s school, but I don’t know why.” It is written directly. And I thought it was such a sign, you really should try to go there. I brought them a bunch of pictures of some kind of film, including a photo of a cat (laughs) in a portfolio. That is, I did not really understand where I was going. But for some reason they took me. It was perhaps the biggest adventure - another world was just opened to me. I just lacked this-some kind of air, inspiration, understanding how to technically realize my ideas.

Now I am only as a singer, as a Singer-Songwriter , I do not feel at all. I like to work with different media and not limit myself to anything. I can make a sound design for the performance as a composer, I can make a track for a multi-channel sound system as a sound artist, I can make an interactive performance or provoke an application for social networks. The album was partly dragged on - a huge stream of new information fell upon me, and I needed time to comprehend it all.

About "anxious experience"

I have been working on this album for a very long time - there are songs that we also performed with the group. When I returned home, I thought that I would write it myself, solo. At the same time, I could not do so much in a music editor myself, I did not have my own instruments. I was such a girl for the piano who did not understand what opportunities there are in electronic music. I am ashamed to admit this, but I have a Microkorg synthesizer, and for several years 90% of its functions did not use its functions at all: I was too lazy to sit down to read manuals, watch videos on YouTube .

I began to write an album in Novgorod - I have been going to the same studio there for a long time, to Sergey Lyatavsky. He just turns on everything and leaves for tea to drink or watch telly. There, I wrote the drafts and thought that I would release this album right then, by the end of 2015. Well, the region is in the spring of the 16th. As a result, the process stretched for several years. Every New Year I promised myself that everything, this year I would definitely release. I still can’t stop and bring some kind of micro-supports. Moreover, I can write music for the play in two weeks, but here ... But I have to finish with this story, otherwise I’m thirty in March, and I still prepare my solo album (laughs) !

One of those that I raise on the album concerns depression. I still struggled and struggle with this for a very long time, and I am glad that now people are massively ready to talk about it. It is difficult to briefly describe this state - I, in general, try to convey it with the help of sound. It took me six years to deal with what is happening - the depression is different, and it can affect physical condition. My body really at some point said to me: "Stop." My throat often hurt, every month, in front of almost every concert. The stomach was still constantly ill, it was just some kind of disaster. I could not work, walked around the doctors - I went to Novgorod, went in Moscow, they made one diagnosis, then the second, I was treated, did not help. I don’t really want to go into details, but the point was that I was so nervous that it led to physical pains. At some point, I got the courage and asked my friends to advise me a good gastroenterologist who conducted an examination and came to the conclusion that my pains are associated with psychosomatics. Then I had already gone to a psychiatrist, and he confirmed that I had a somatized depression - and the awareness of my diagnosis has become a real beginning of the path from this pit.

About the song "OHMSK"

I wrote this song after one of the techniques with a psychologist. I came to the studio, improvised, and I suddenly had this song. I was honest in Omsk, to be honest, but I think it’s clear why I chose this city - I hope this will not offend anyone in Omsk (laughs) . I like that the name of this city has many rhymes: this is OM - the unit of measurement of electrical resistance, and the mantra “OM” - the word of power, and “MSC” - they still write in abbreviations of Moscow. Initially, this song was conceived as guitar, and I wanted to convey such an ironic greetings to all the ostril rockers-because today all this rock heroism, it seems to me, cannot be seriously perceived, I can only listen from such musicians and I can listen. And then I decided to add bits there, because the whole point of rock, all this frantic energy is now in the Russian rapp, and also in the theater.

Kira Lao - "Delay"

About the song "Delay"

Work on the album stretched for more than three years, including because I was missing all the time. For example, I have been looking for a piano sound for a very long time. I tried different virtual roots, went home, to Veliky Novgorod, where there is my native tool on which I learned to play. But I didn't like anything. In despair, I wrote an announcement on social networks that I want to rent a room with piano for a month. Where I lived in Moscow at that time, there was simply no place to put the tool: it was so small, it seems, six square meters. One of the friends offered to get rid of her for free while she was away. I came to visit her to see the piano, opened the lid and stunned. It was an old German ed. Seiler is in very good condition. On it, I recorded the basis for several tracks from the album, including Delay . I really liked how the tool sounds if you seal its strings with tape, and in this composition I took it as a basis. What to say about the track itself? This is such a frivolous song about an attempt to plug a hole in the chest with an “exalted feeling”, about the inability to cope with your emotions, about love as addiction. Ah, yes, also about Disneyland for depressive. While I was stupid with the recording of this track, Banksy made his Dismaland .

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