Hi, we’re
back with a new release which is actually a sampler of recording made during 11
years since 1998 to 2009. In 2013 our fellows from Tatu Mentu reissued this
outstanding songwriter by releasing a sampler «Городское утро» (City Morning), but this sampler includes a lot of unreleased stuff.
Алексей Сергеевский (Alexey Sergeevsky) is a prolific
singer-songwriter, very original in a venue of modern Russian bard music,
closer to folk than to “regular” bards. He started his creative activities in a
school duo named «Горизонт» (“The Skyline”) but soon he carried on as a solo artist, member of
some bard clubs, participant of bard fests, gigs, etc. During the latest years he
retired from songwriting due to lack of time, such a common issue,
unfortunately.
Photos by Alena Kidun
I can’t say
for sure what makes Alexey different from the bunch of bards wearing similar
sweaters… maybe he’s sadder, darker and closer to folk, but that’s a fact I’ve
already mentioned.
So let’s
switch to songs. The motive of solitude is extremely common here, it’s
represented in almost every song, just look at the titles: «Одна дорога» (One road), «Один» (Alone — which is scarring my heart with the
line “Again I cannot go away”), «Одиноко» (Lonely), «Одной тебе» (Only for You).
Typical
Russian folk motivation can be heard in song «Как-нибудь» (Somehow), another typical thing is a
comparison between spiritual values and money in song «Деньги решают все» (Money Can
Solve Any Problem).
Amongst my
favorites can be found awesome «Паранойя» (Paranoia), a disease which characterizes any
modernist cultural situation (both in previous century and now):
“We are all sick with one common disease
Very soon we will die”
“The risk of being tainted is as high as it can
be”
The song «Разные» (Different) is a hyperbolic
dichotomy between the rich and the poor, and the final «Одной тебе» (Only for You), the longest song, leaves you in a melancholic state of
mind, desperately desiring to take a walk to make your head think fresher.
It’s only
the man and the guitar and the somberness!
Sincerely
yours,
John “Grey Lenses”
Grey
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