A unique project for drummers. A unique project for drummers Who came up with the name "Carnival"

MuzTorg presents the project "Without Stars"

The MuzTorg chain of stores presents an exclusive, unparalleled project - "Without Stars".

As part of this project a series of seminars for drummers will be held in our salons, which will combine both master classes and a detailed presentation of technical and sound characteristics percussion instruments, as well as the nuances and technique of the game, starting with the very basics.

Why "No Stars"? It's very simple - during the seminars, each of those present can bring to the conversation and demonstrate on the instrument their experience, their achievements, and their vision of sound.

Why do we need all this? Even simpler, no altruism. After all, business is business. Tomorrow we want to have as many sophisticated, literate, and, of course, solvent buyers as possible. And today we are ready to assist them in making their and our "tomorrow" come as quickly as possible. And two of our old friends gladly agreed to help us in this - Alexander Filonenko, an honored drummer who played with many famous artists- from A. Barykin to F. Kirkorov, now a studio musician, who already has a truly "star" album with Joe Lynn Turner and Glenn Hughes, and Artur Osipov, drummer for G. Leps and the new progressive project "6 sense".

And now, a few questions for Alexander and Artur.

- And what will you talk about, Alexander, what to show, where do you think all this should begin?
- Yes, about everything, and not a little, but in detail. And to begin ... without a foundation it is impossible to build either a hut or a skyscraper, so we will start from the "foundation" - from landing, setting hands, from fingers, from rudiments and paraddles. In general, from the very beginning.

- Arthur, how do you like our idea?
- Cool, really cool. And for me, as an old and absolutely hopeless fan of TAMA, all this is doubly pleasant. And then, Sasha spoke very correctly about the situation with young musicians. I remember very well how, as a kid, I ran around all sorts of dances and taverns, stood up in a corner, and watched adult guys play drums, who were then, well, maybe 30 years old. And today, which of the guys will be let into the club or , God forbid, in the casino to look at the drummer? So let's hold on. And yet, I really liked your formula - "No Stars". I generally can't stand pathos. And then sometimes you look - he barely learned to walk, but he behaves as if he is a bird of God, now he will push off the earth and fly into the sky. And in general, you know, it's just nice to participate in such a thing, if only simply because it is the right one. In general, MuzTorg in Once again proved that he does not just sell instruments or advertise drums, but promotes art and cares about customers. And I, for my part, will help in any way I can, with great pleasure!

Thirty years ago, Alexander Barykin, together with Vladimir Kuzmin, created the Karnaval group, which experimented in all existing styles of rock music from glam rock and rhythm blues to reggae. Majority popular rock bands The 70s started out as an amateur team. Then, having become laureates at amateur VIA competitions, they went to “professionals”, i.e. assigned to a philharmonic society. In the history of the Carnival group, everything began exactly the opposite - the musicians left the philharmonic vocal and instrumental ensembles to play their own own music fashionable in those days, the direction of new wave.

In Saratov master Russian rock came to take part in billiards competitions for the prizes of the club "Grey Earl".

We have only girls, it’s good, - Alexander immediately noticed, looking around the journalists who had gathered in the Jonka restaurant, complained that there was a “concrete sauna” on the street and ordered a double espresso with milk.

We bring musicians and artists - both young and talented, and masters, - Sergey Moshin, director of the Creative Workshop, said at a press conference. - Alexander Barykin is one of the pillars of Russian rock, the first who introduced the concept of "reggae" to the masses.

Yes, I began, and Grebenshchikov was still singing: “And I’m sitting on the roof and I’m not very happy,” Barykin put in.

“...And we are happy to bring and communicate with people like Alexander,” continued Moshin. - And we want to instill in Saratov a culture that gives a good mood to both young people and the older generation. On October 7, the “golden” composition of the Carnival group will perform at the Opera and Ballet Theater.

- Alexander, for what purpose did you come to our region?

Came to friends. I arrive early in the cities where the Carnival tour will take place, in connection with the thirtieth anniversary of our group, which has not played together for almost twenty years. We got together last October and on November 29 anniversary concert at Luzhniki. This year we have collected audio-video information, released a CD from this concert and are going to make a short tour of Russia, to show that we are alive and well and are representatives of performing rock.

Performing rock is rock music that people know how to perform professionally. Now there is a stream of acquisitive computer music set with additives on top. It turns out a synthesis of incomprehensible music that represents youth. All over the world teams are now gathering very good class who played before and they are popular again. For example, "Eagles", "Led Zepellin" and others. Even Rainbow and Bad Company got together after 20 years. This western wave has come here too. The group "Picnic" has gathered and is actively touring, the group "Carnival", the group "Master" is in the process of assembling. On this wave, I think it will be possible for another five years to please our Russian public with real performing skills.

- Tell us about your passion for billiards

I've been addicted to billiards for a long time - I've been playing for seven years. I can't say that I have reached the same level in billiards as in music, but I can resist even some athletes. They are sharpened for this, but in good mood and a positive state, you can win even an athlete. Winning a tournament is very difficult - I just want to participate, maybe I'll recover quickly, but I'm just interested in playing.

- They say you have Saratov roots?

Not so much from Saratov - my mother is from Volsk, and my father is from Novocherkassk, Volsky district. Mom (she worked at the factory) sent me and my brother to Volsk for the whole summer for 20 years, and my aunt lived on Stepan Razin Street, we often went to her ... In Atkarsk, where Valeria was born, my relatives are also in the village of Belyakovka . All my grandfathers and great-grandfathers are from Volsk and the villages adjacent to it. I have two people living there. cousins- Lena and Olya, they come to Moscow, but I won’t get to them for ten years. I hope that the Volskaya administration will someday invite me to a concert so that I can talk with the sisters.

- How do you spend your vacation?

As artists, there is no such thing as a vacation. There are little weekends between tours, studio work, organizational moments PR, so you can choose only three or four days. I even fly to Cyprus for four days, on the fifth I already have to go home. We have the opposite - we work on weekends, when people are resting, and on weekdays we need to have time to resolve issues on PR and on the studio. I still write music all the time. This double disc contains a video version, and there is also an audio version, there are several bonuses - five new songs. I am constantly replenishing my music library with new songs - I simply cannot do otherwise.

- Do you have a favorite vacation spot?

There is, but not here: between Samara and Togliatti on the Vasilyevsky Islands. There are big mountains, the Volga flows between them, eagles, herons fly, it is very beautiful. I have been visiting friends there for many years.

- What inspires you?

Everything inspires, there is a lot of past in life: some memories ... I don’t even know where it all comes from. Not everything has to come from real life. For example, Jules Verne, you know, was never at sea - he read the entire library of his father and his numerous novels wrote about the sea and pirates at home. This internal state your intellectual, metaphysical baggage and imaginative thinking...

Once I was friends with a girl named Natalie, it was a very long time ago. I wrote the song "Natalie", it was little known, but now I revived it, redid the lyrics and I think that it will become popular, because it turned out to be a hit. Avtoradio takes her into rotation.

- Do you maintain relations with Vladimir Kuzmin?

I haven't seen Volodya for quite a long time, about six years. We have different directions, but we played football together in the artist team. We traveled along different cities until 2003 when it was fashionable. First there was football with the city administration, and then a concert, where we met. Training was once a week on Thursdays.

- In what composition will the group arrive in Saratov?

We will arrive with the main line-up: our drummer Alexander Filonenko, guitar professor Andrey Vypov (he teaches at the Gnessin School), Petr Makienko, bass player of the Araks group, Gennady Martov, guitarist from the Zemlyane group and myself. All acting people who played in "Carnival" in the 80s. Now there are not so many concerts, and people can combine work in other groups with work in Carnival.

- What program will you bring?

There will be a very strong concert. There will be new stuff too, but people mostly want the old songs, so we remastered the old stuff in a modern way. looking good. We're playing harder now, closer to rock'n'roll. There will be all the old hits: "Believe in yourself", "20.00", "Lifebuoy", "Sudden dead end", "Wonder Island". We made a song about a bouquet (“I will drive a bicycle for a long time ...”) in the reggae style. If it is played in the old arrangement, it does not fit modern style, so we drove it a little bit.

Our anniversary turned into a whole guitar festival. Notable guitarists from different groups were invited instead of artists. Usually, on the contrary, they invite artists, and this is already a topic “with a beard” to asphalt, so I invited the most powerful guitarists - the “monsters” of our country, and it turned out to be such a rich evening. The people did not want to leave the concert, there was a very strong drive, people kept calling and calling us, so Saratov will be happy.

- Do you participate in joint projects with your wife and son?

I don't do projects. I was engaged in one singer whom I wanted to help, but I didn’t succeed with her - she went to work in fashion catalogs and began to engage in a glamorous business. That's mine ex-wife Nelli Barykina (group "Nelli"), she has now left the stage and has become the creative and financial director of the "World of Your Family" catalog. She is a fashion model and went back to where she came from - again doing fashion. With rock music it is very difficult to break into show business, but with pop music - please: sing about oranges or sunflowers in an erotic sense - and they will take you. I myself am an artist, and not a producer at all, I don’t have money to “push” even my wife - it’s very difficult. My son works as a DJ in the western market of England, Belgium, Turkey and Greece, is engaged in rave music as an arranger, as a singer, and no longer lives in our country. Him dance projects I don't know much about them, so I can't say.

- What rock bands do you like?

I like bands that play hard, commercial, melodic rock. I am a devotee traditional music, I love " deep purple and Bryan Adams. I don't even see solid musicians in the world besides Nickel Back, and of course there are young bands that play thrash, they are very strong, but I'm not very knowledgeable in this. I sometimes like to listen to how serious young musicians play thrash, and from rock music, I more or less like Bon Jovi, Guns N "Roses" - bands of the 80s and early 90s.

A lot of musicians in the West who love music, and not just want to get off, try to keep themselves in shape. Rod Stewart came over recently, Aerosmith. Many bands come to Moscow who are older than us and they work great, so we can still do it.

- Who came up with the name "Carnival"?

Kuzmin and I, when we played together and the first minion came out with us ... This is not Brazilian Carnival, this is the movement inside you when you want to please people. Musical carnival. Like the Agatha Christie group, they are not representatives of a detective novel, and it's the same here. Since we were a dissident group, at first we even wanted to be called the Black Carnival.

- What will the growing interest in the rock movement result in, will pop music leave TV screens?

In the 80s music was still written from the heart, but in the 90s club music developed (mainly for the body and for the legs) and a lot of the public was taken out of this market. They went into glam rock, like Cinderella, Guns N "Roses", because the whole world became interested in dancing. Even at that time there was a lot of surrogate - acid music that flooded the whole world. People took drugs, young people gathered in huge crowds and completely stupefied - she did not perceive texts, she needed a show and that the barrel would gouge in her head. She was accustomed to this music, now this trend is receding, young people began to reach out for universal culture: to read literature (Coelho, Murakkami, Akunin, Pelevin and others), to study languages ​​- and this showed interest in textual rock music. Young people began to listen to the Melnitsa group, St. Petersburg groups that carry a semantic load. The Invasion and Our Radio festival became popular, interesting creative teams. Although this, from my point of view, is not performing rock yet - this is the sale of poetry, they play poorly, and basically serve their intellectual level, and well. I think that both sides of the scale should be balanced so that people play well and present their poetic material at the level at which we, the bands of the 80s, served it, that would be great.

- Will the situation on TV channels change?

I think that it will be difficult to change it, because the country is filled with chanson, there is pop music, which is generally needed, but its quality leaves much to be desired. The direction that we have taken will simply take its niche. We are not going to fight anyone. On " Chistye Prudy"Former Intergal keyboardist, your countryman Igor Sandler opens the Milk Brothers rock music center (he became a big industrialist - he has two dairy plants and he decided to invest in show business). It will be a rock laboratory for the selection of young bands, famous musicians will conduct master classes. Nikolay Noskov, Dmitry Chetvergov and myself will teach there. We will try to educate, gather groups, seek out interesting performers, which show a high professional level, and then - what happens.

- Do young people listen to you?

Yes, a lot of young people come to the clubs: there was only one youth in Tver. We now play not pop, but club music. Youth drive loves everything to be driving and good. On the Internet, our group is very popular - we have a website, a lot of material on YouTube. I won’t say that I fought as a paratrooper, but in fact we gave too much creative and physical strength to move good music in Russia.

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This article is a work in progress and is in the process of being finalized.

Filonenko Alexander Semyonovich

1968

Graduated: Faculty of Physics and Technology of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University

Taught at: Faculty of Philosophy of Kharkov national university them. V. N. Karazin, BBI, Institute family psychology and counseling

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