But the poet is not forgotten. Professional attitude to his memory forms a book of the St. Petersburg writer and art historian Lev Naumov “Bashlachev Aleksandr – “the Person singing. Poems. Biography. Materials”, which has already passed through three editions. The aura surrounding the image Sashbash, helps to maintain the flame in fan’s hearts – the thematic pages and groups in social networks, full of exclusives, the leader in the publishing of independent Russian music publishing “Branch OUT” is in a directory a 7-volume CD live collection and the complete collection of videos. Released album tribute where songs bashlacheva singing colleagues in the genre.
But if you imagine the real role, the impact of creativity Sashbash on the minds and souls of his contemporaries, this cosmically small.
the Situation reminded about the fact that despite the friendship with such Leningrad rock-star Konstantin Kinchev (“Alisa”) and Svyatoslav “Alice” saderi, Bashlachev was not able to record with the group. It and trouble, and a sign of the time. Bashlachev was not “perfect hero” – he traded a pair of jeans, along the way created sometimes not very bright texts for dance music. But in a moment of fractured time and the meaning of life, in the ‘ 80s, he was riding the crest of this fracture and expressed it in creativity like no other. His life and literally broke along with the age, like many other heroes of Russian rock. As it was, by the way, on the West rock civilization two decades earlier, when humanity as ever come close to the feeling of freedom, and it seemed that it was one step. These repetitions destinies still waiting for his analysis.
“the Time of bellflowers” is a perfect meme of the era. Bashlachev close to us, alive, those who looked him in the eye. What’s the creativity of this level is a special secret. Hard to explain, how to act the song Cherepovets genius people, whose souls were discovered poetry. In our financial and mechanistic age this is even harder, because even words lose their meanings, communications. Now, when some of the stars of that era trying to describe a modern cinematic language, these attempts have neither expressive nor feelings of emotional stress, no understanding of motive forces that drove then. Challenges and hopes reflected in the works bashlacheva, as if fenced off from the modern gadgets. It seems that neural connections in the collective brain of civilization. And, remembering poets, those who were able to touch the souls of millions, we have these relationships restored.
Hardly there is a sense again to sort out the dates and facts of life – it has been done many times, encyclopedias and experts. But about all the heroes of Russian rock would be to remove the exciting movie – conflict relationships, and opposition to systemic injustices. But captured then, korotkometrazhkiand are rare documents of reality.
Bashlachev worked brilliantly with the “urban” actual Russian language at the same time, opened a traditional, national concepts and moods. His work was completely absent from the false, flashy “nation” and vulgarity, which often prevail on the screens and on the air. To tell difficult, now such creativity is not, nor artists, nor the listeners do not know how, and this feeling will look again. But this task is clear and precise, in this paradigm Sasbach is becoming an important trend, the ideal and meaning. And we can still choose.
