All nine “of auctionitem” were during the presentation at home, in isolation. At the same time the musicians had heard the finally mixed and produced new CD “Dreams”. Moreover, simultaneously with the fans. The large screen was divided into nine parts, and each of it someone was. In a single – Leonid Fedorov, in a different Oleg Garkusha, in the third Dmitry Ozersky.
even not clearly, more like many fans: whether to listen to the entrancing new songs, or to observe how you listen and how you react to the premiere themselves, all nine musicians. Each behaved differently, but were all a – with a strange hairstyle saxophonist Nikolay “Colic” Rubanov danced with his wife, keyboard player Dmitry Ozersky smiled slyly, drummer Boris Savenkov was serious, the bassist Vladimir Volkov, mysteriously conducted the candlestick. Thus, paradoxically, they became even closer to the public – can be viewed on the screen of the reactions and emotions of each musician and they were at home – relaxed and open to communication.
“Dreams” sounded elegant and even warm. Work on them took place in “Tonestudio” cinema concern “Mosfilm”, the sound engineer was Andrew Levin, mastered by Anatoly Ryasov. Minimalistic and transparent sound, a wide palette of expressive means – from the ceremonial brass of the orchestra to romantic and psychedelic, sometimes dark rock ballads, exciting chthonic images and timbre of the instruments ringing keyboard chords and stunning solos of wind instruments.
the Music is especially memorable, as imaginative and expressive, concise and beautiful. I wanted to dream and boldly about how “Dreams” will play on a serious instrument, when the coronavirus retreat and concerts will resume… the Melodic “Dreams” inherit disk “In the sun”, but sound more refined and, at the same time, sadder. Particularly impressed with consecutive and forming the epicenter of the album: “Autumn white eyes” is a tragic meditation under the creative guitar and a weeping pipe, a “lifeline” – a tragic ballad about loneliness, “lie low and wait” – a tribute to Yegor Letov. All in all, the album is 9 tracks presented were eight, one was “secret” – it is for those who buy the album yet in digital format.
Aura of the record was presented as a heavenly voiced – it’s changing, evolving right up to free jazz, which is close to many musicians of the group. They are well expressed in free, open music – this is especially clear for the same bonus tracks “those Wave”, the initial version of which is known to music lovers more album of the group leader, the author of the music of Leonid Fedorova and multi-instrumentalist Vladimir Volkov “Waves” (2009).
the Audience asked the musicians questions, mostly ironic and light – do recorded and unreleased songs, are there any known negative traits Fedorov, the song was recorded and how it was composed, what releases are planned? “Will be, in all formats, up to Bobin,” – smiling, said the musicians. Asked them again and about “what to tell the band’s songs?”, what the poet Ozersky again just smiled. And when the audience began to push, trying at least to know: “Who is this Tisha?” hero – one of the Central compositions retorted that “it is unknown”.
it took all, of course, not without problems, the moderator of the listening were made by himself Fedorov, questions from the screen to read it was awkward, but he managed. The idea was to play your music live, but decided not to: communication was good, but not enough to play at the same time of nine apartments…
Yes, the most advanced, the most “strange” Patriotic rock band of our time, because only with “Aukcionas” play level stars John Medeski or Marc Ribot – did what, like, time demands from everyone – has confirmed that it is interesting and positive in any format. The reaction was rapid. In the comments of the fans of the event itself is even somewhat overshadowed the album it was released compliments and while listening and after, but the thought of the commentators returned to a new look at the musicians. Disc “In the sun” was integrated into the world of modern technology – music, explaining the name, started to sound if the device fell the rays of the sun.
“Dreams” after the presentation a few days was headed by the different ratings on iTunes, appeared on the first places in the hit parades. And the first reviews and reactions to them was full of light.
the Contents of the new disc is far from unreasonable, hysterical joy (the one that was on earlier releases of “Auktyon” mid 80s – early 90s), but it is life and creativity, talent and ability, and so he’s very on time.
