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@@ArcadijSerzhich в песнях история страны нашей горемычной. Теперь 20 летним уже не понять всю глубину их смысла

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Thanks for such a detailed review. You understood Zaborsky absolutely correctly. I was friends with Alexander. When I was in Novosibirsk, I lived in his apartment for a month. Despite his lifestyle, he was a sensitive person and very demanding in his work on songs. Perhaps his end was natural. Apparently, this is the fate of all Russian artists distinguished by their talent. He was unique. This is what my opening words at the beginning of the concert and the first song are about. I am proud that fate brought me together with him. And I'm trying my best to make his songs sound again.

@@ArcadijSerzhich Thanks for your nice answer! And good to hear that my interpretations about him are not simply projections of my fantasy... somehow music is really something transcultural (moreover, as my Russian isn´t fit for really understanding more than ca. 5% of the lyrics and all the allusions in them)... well, I can just add that after writing my first comment I continued to listen through the concert and some other things by you (and I already had known you and your music before from things that you had recorded with AZ while he was still here), and in my opinion you are doing extremely well. Already because his songs suit you really good and vice versa and one feels that you are at home in them and their mood... What I wanna say: just try for a moment to imagine someone like, say, Jan Frenkel playing the same concert, haha... wouldn´t work from the start. No, really: it´s good that he had such a friend who does this now for him, and so well. It really fits the whole thing. I understand what you say about his end, and I see it similarly: what counts about a life is not its length nor its trajectory, but only the sense that it made as a life, and nothing else. Wsje zhisn prakhodit kak nochnoy patrul. Everything O.K. But what made me so particularly sad was this almost absurdly nasty last turn which fate took for him: first to fall and to arrive at the lowest point, then to be spotted by an old fan on the street by accident, who takes you in, virtually saves you, gets you dry, feeds you and restores your life spirit - wow, thats almost a fairytale! - and THEN a doctor finds that cancer in your brain that wouldn´t have been any problem to remove had you only come earlier, instead of doing what you had done the last two years. But now it´s too big, sorry, much too late, all your own fault, young man. This is so extremely mean that it´s almost surreal; it is just top notch unfair. And especially he had really deserved better. But yes, maybe it was his style that way. Anyway, I´m already looking forward what comes next in your music. I am sure A.Z. approves, grinning through his sharp teeth!

@@ArcadijSerzhich p.s: one question: do you know who that accordion player was back then with A.Z., playing so relaxed and perfectly back beat, under his thick Brezhnev glasses? I would be so interested to hear other stuff with him. Incredible musician. Decently accompanying is always the hardest job, and he was really good in that...

You speak highly of my performing and songwriting abilities. I had a similar conversation with AZ, when he said that we were following a common path of creativity, but I did not agree with this and answered him, alas, after his death in the introduction to the concert: “You lied, you were the last on this path . There's no one around. no one standing even on the threshold will follow you.” AZ was unique. I regret that I do not yet have the opportunity to continue performing with his songs. The songs that AZ contributed to contain 90% context and meaning. With his music and performance, he emphasized this meaning and made it vivid. It’s amazing that you felt them after understanding only 5%, I’m glad of that. How could you?!

@@ArcadijSerzhich Well, this is a story in which different strands meet. First, I am obsessed with music and a manic record collector since when I was 11 or 12 (I´m 52 now). First it was Punk, then more and more Jazz and, on the other hand, Eastern European music (I also have a YT channel where I present parts of my 78rpm records ). Why Eastern European music? I am a historian by profession. Already when I as very young I had (and still have) a large collection of photos that my grandfather made in 1941 in Ukraine, Latvia and Russia - he was the chief motor and vehicle repair guy of the 6th Panzer Division. He was a very good photographer, and to judge from the pictures, he did not like what they were doing there. He documented everything, the beauty of the land and the terrible destruction they caused, and also some atrocities that others probably would not have photographed. His photographs show in a very drastic way what horrible things humans can do to "others". So, already as a child I became interested who those "others" were. But there was the Iron Curtain, until that night in 1989 which I vividly remember, when the Berlin Wall fell. So, what happened afterwards, made me more and more angry and ashame: the arrogance how a whole culture and the life histories of so many people were wiped away, as if it had been nothing - you know what I mean. I became more and more interested, especially in the Stalin period, in the Gulags and so on, and I saw how similar it was to what the Nazis did here. I always think how sad it is that Khrushchev has such a bad memory today: what he did in `56 was probably the most courageous and human thing any politician did in the 20th century. Well, and as a music maniac, I also started to delve deeply into the music of that time and I was fascinated how pop music developed then, especially in the dark Stalin years. Some of the greatest Russian pop songs were published in 1937... seemingly a paradox. And equally great, the emigrant music. I have a lot of Petr Leshchenko records (I have the impression that A.Z. learned a lot from Leshchenko as regards guitar playing). And from there, I started to discover the thieves and yard songs. Real underground music! (Another hero of mine is Alik "Farber" Oshmiansky who also, sadly, passed away recently). So, even if I don´t understand much of the lyrics, I know a lot about the background. And, third: I am a musician and a singer myself. See, for example ruclips.net/video/eeggsa5fais/видео.html . I am the male voice, I play all the synthesizers, and I wrote the song and the arrangement. I was always interested how to deliver a song. I made the experience that, when a concert was going well, I sometimes got into some kind of frenzy, so that it felt as if not only my mouth but the whole body was singing, and if something beyond myself was singing through me if I let it happen. Those moments were also the same ones when I noticed that I really got the audience. I always tried to learn that and how to get into that state of mind. There are some singers who can do that seemingly with ease, and A.Z. was a real master in that art: in letting loose, in singing with the whole body and soul and just being in the moment. Yes, one simply hears that, irrespectively if you understand the lyrics or not. I once experimented with writing lyrics in fantasy languages and how to deliver them: ruclips.net/video/MrhYkGXD-8A/видео.html . The words of that song mean nothing at all but somehow it works, if you know what I mean. Lyrics are important, of course, but attitude and mindset are equally important in music. And, by the way: A.Z. was never a prisoner in the Zone. How could he become such a master in delivering those songs? Probably because he had lots of empathy, of imagination and of knowledge. Well, that´s my story, in short. It´s so sad that we´re getting a new Iron Curtain now, I´d really like to break it because we´re no different at all, the West could learn so much from the East and vice versa. "Nations" are, in my opinion, the worst invention of all times. Hope to hear from you, Matthias