Alexander Georgievich Vasiliev(July 15, 1969, Leningrad) - Russian musician, poet, composer, author and performer of songs, leader of the Spleen group.
Biography
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Great-grandfather Yakov was born in the village of Beklemishevo, Chita Region (now the Trans-Baikal Territory), Yakov’s son, Alexander’s grandfather, Vladimir, was also born in this village, was dispossessed and shot in 1938 in the area of Chernovskie Mines ( Chita region). In Beklemishevo, my great-grandfather built a house in which, according to rumors, given time placed kindergarten. He was rehabilitated in 1958. Alexander's father was born in Chernovsky Mines (where the family moved during dispossession) in 2012.
He spent the first five years of his childhood in the city of Freetown (Sierra Leone), where his father (an engineer by profession) worked on the construction of the port, and his mother taught Russian language and literature at a school at the Soviet embassy.
In 1974, all Soviet citizens were evacuated from the country back to the USSR. The Vasiliev family moved to the Lithuanian city of Zarasai, and in 1976 returned to Leningrad.
Since childhood, Sasha has been interested in music, and a desire to write arises in him. In 1980, my sister gave Vasiliev a reel, where on one side was " Time Machine", and on the other - the group" Resurrection". At the age of 12, he gets to the first concert in his life - Time Machine, which impresses him very much - he decides to give himself completely to rock music. In the seventh grade, the straight A student Vasilyev abandons his studies, as the guitar comes into his life2012.
In 1986, Alexander entered the Leningrad Institute of Aviation Instrumentation, where he met his future wife Alexandra and Alexander Morozov (Morris). The Mitra group appears, in which, among others, Oleg Kuvaev (the future creator of Masyanya) participated. In 1988, the group tries to join the Leningrad rock club, but does not pass the selection (the group is not let in by anyone, but Anatoly Gunitsky from the Aquarium group).
Alexander goes to the army for two years, where he writes songs that will later be included in the album Dusty Byl. In 1990, Alexander returned from the army and Oleg Kuvaev arranged for him to be a fitter at the Comedy Theater in 2012.
In 1992, Alexander enters Faculty of Economics Theater Institute. Soon he gets a job at the Buff Theater, where Alexander Morozov worked as a sound engineer. Morozov (Morris) introduces Vasiliev to Nikolai Rostovsky, and they begin work on the first album. In May 1994 the album was ready.
On May 27, on the day of the 291st anniversary of St. Petersburg, a party was held dedicated to the end of the recording of the first album, at which the musicians met Stas Berezovsky. This day is official day the birth of the Splin group in 2012.
In 2004, Alexander's first solo album, Drafts, was released.
September 12, 2006 in the Vasiliev family happened significant event- son Leonid was born. The song "Son" from the album "Split Personality" is dedicated to this.
Personality
Family: wife Alexander, son Leonid.
It is known that Vasiliev prefers to listen to music at home2012. One of his favorite groups is Radiohead, one of whose songs, Karma Police, Alexander likes to listen at full volume and sing along to the vocalist. Favorite foreign rock and roll team - "
"Spleen" (from the English spleen - "spleen") - Russian rock band. The permanent leader is Alexander Vasiliev. The date of birth of the group is May 27, 1994.In May 1994, in the sound studio of the St. Petersburg theater "Buff", where Alexander Vasiliev and Alexander Morozov worked at that time, the first album was recorded - "Dusty Reality", one of the songs of which, "On the Mute" (a poem by Sasha Cherny), gave group name:
Like a moth, I'm eaten by spleen ...
Sprinkle me with mothballs
Fold in a chest and put me in the attic
Until spring comes.
The album turned out to be popular and sold throughout St. Petersburg with a circulation of about 10 thousand audio cassettes. It has subsequently been re-released twice on CD by various labels. The group quickly became popular, various radio stations began to broadcast its songs, and in 1997 the group was offered to perform at the second Maxidrom rock festival. At the same time, the first concert was played at the Yubileiny Sports Palace (St. Petersburg), recognized by all as a failure. However next concert, played in Luzhniki, became a real sensation.
The newly created label "ORT Records" signed a contract with promising group for the publication of the fourth album, released in 1998 under the title " pomegranate album". He made the group truly famous. In June of the same year, Spleen performed as the opening act for The Rolling Stones". New members came to the group - Yanik Nikolenko and Sergey Navetny, and Alexander Ponomarev became the producer of Spleen.
The lead singer and leader of the group continued to experiment with style, sound and lyrics. The result of these experiments was the album "Altavista", which includes some of the most unexpected, narcotic and experimental spirit of Vasiliev's songs. After some lull on March 21, 2001, the album "25 frame" was released, after which the group, together with "Bi-2" and "Tomas", organized a joint tour "Fellini", which took place in several cities of Russia and abroad.
In 2002, the double disc "Acoustics" was released - a recording of an acoustic concert played at the Stanislavsky Theater.
After the release of the first single "Handball" (which, in addition to the song of the same name, included the song "North-West", the video clip "Plastic Life" and the flash-video "spLean feat. Masyanya", drawn by Oleg Kuvaev) and the album "New People" unexpectedly for fans, Alexander Vasiliev's solo album "Drafts" is released, in which songs written by Alexander in the period from 1988 to 2003 were collected. There were rumors that the group was breaking up, but Vasiliev himself denied them.
On May 18, 2004, the second single "Romance" was released. It presented three versions of the title song, as well as the instrumental composition "Steps". In addition, "Romance" was released in a new format - on a three-inch CD.
On November 17, 2004, the album "Reverse Chronicle of Events" was released, where in addition to hits ("We sat and smoked", "Geography Lesson" and "Romance") there were unexpected experimental instrumental tracks, hard rock ballads and soft guitar compositions. A few months after recording the album, drummer Sergei Navetny left the band. Alexey Meshcheryakov was accepted in his place.
On October 17, 2005, the group started recording the next, ninth, album. His recording was interrupted by touring North America- San Francisco, Chicago, New York and Boston. On April 2, 2006, the band took part in the FUZZ rock magazine awards festival. The festival was held at the large arena of the St. Petersburg Yubileiny Sports Palace. To the surprise of the public and music critics, the group played only 4 songs, and absolutely new and unfamiliar to most viewers. The band's guitarist Stas Berezovsky was absent from the performance. Instead, two musicians performed - former guitarist group "Oedipus Complex" ( former group flutist Yana Nikolenko) Vladimir Kolyada and Innokenty Agafonov, "comrade of the past" Alexei Meshcheryakov. Rumors about the breakup of the group began to circulate again. An indirect confirmation of this was the group's performance at the Moscow club "Tochka", which featured two new guitarists (Vladimir Kolyada and Innokenty Agafonov). To the question "Where is Berezovsky?" Vasiliev initially laughed it off: "In London." And then he said that the permanent guitarist "Spleen" "went into free swimming." Later, a message appeared on the official website about the departure of flutist Yan Nikolenko and one of the two new guitarists, Vladimir Kolyada, from the group. Other than the posting on the website, no comments were received from the group. Despite the drastic line-up changes, the band continued to record new album. In June 2006, the second new guitarist, Innokenty Agafonov, left the band. Alexander Vasiliev still did not comment on anything. At the festival "Invasion" the group played four.
On January 5, 2007, the band announced a lineup change on their official website. A new bassist Dmitry Kunin, who previously played in the same band with drummer Alexei Meshcheryakov, came to the group. Due to the line-up change, Vadim Sergeev returned to playing the electric guitar.
The current line-up of the group:
Alexander Vasiliev - vocals, guitar;
Alexey Meshcheryakov - drums;
Vadim Sergeev - electric guitar;
Nikolai Rostovsky - keyboards;
Dmitry Kunin - bass guitar.
Discography
1994 Dusty reality
1996 Gun Collector
1997 Lantern under the eye
1998 Pomegranate album
1999 Altavista
2000 Altavista Live (2CD)
2000 Zn @ exchanger (collection of songs for radio)
2001 25 frame
2001 fellini tour joint album with Bi-2 and the Thomas group)
2002 Acoustics (2CD)
2002 Handball (single)
2003 New people
2004 Drafts (solo album by Alexander Vasiliev)
2004 Romance (single)
2004 Reverse chronicle of events
2007 Split personality
2007 13 years in Rock and Roll (compilation best songs)
2007 3007
2007 Tribute to the group sLeen*
2008 Rolling stone
2009 Signal from space
Clips
1994 - They told me the word
1995 - Be my shadow
1996 - My love
1997 - Orbit without sugar
1998 - There is no way out
1998 - Roll, wheel!
1999 - Milk and honey
1999 - Pil-smoked
2000 - Motorcycle chain
2000 - Absinthe
2000 - You dream about it
2000 - We stay for the winter
2001 - Fellini
2001 - My heart
2002 - Plastic Life
2003 - New people
2004 - Romance
2005 - Labyrinth
2005 - We sat and smoked
2006 - Say
2007 - Mamma mia
2007 - Say
2009 - Upside Down
Official site - www.splean.ru
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Alexander Georgievich Vasiliev(July 15, 1969, Leningrad) - Russian musician, poet, composer, author and performer of songs, leader of the Spleen group.
Biography
He spent the first five years of his childhood in the city of Freetown (Sierra Leone), where his father (an engineer by profession) worked on the construction of the port, and his mother taught Russian language and literature at a school at the Soviet embassy.
In 1974, all Soviet citizens were evacuated from the country back to the USSR. The Vasiliev family moved to the Lithuanian city of Zarasai, and in 1976 returned to Leningrad.
Since childhood, Vasilyev has been interested in music, and a desire to write arises in him.
In 1980, my sister gave Vasiliev a reel, where on one side was the "Time Machine", and on the other - the group "Resurrection".
At the age of 12, he gets to the first concert in his life - the Time Machine, which impresses him very much - he decides to give himself completely to rock music.
In 1986, Alexander entered the Leningrad Institute of Aviation Instrumentation, where he met his future wife Alexandra and Alexander Morozov (Morris). The Mitra group appears, in which, among others, Oleg Kuvaev (the future creator of Masyanya) participated. In 1988, the group tries to join the Leningrad rock club, but does not pass the selection (Anatoly Gunitsky from the Aquarium group does not let the group in).
Alexander leaves for two years in the army in a construction battalion where he writes songs that will later be included in the album Dusty Byl.
In 1989, Alexander returned from the army.
In 1992, Alexander entered the Faculty of Economics of the Theater Institute. Soon he gets a job at the Buff Theater, where Alexander Morozov worked as a sound engineer. Morozov (Morris) introduces Vasiliev to Nikolai Rostovsky, and they begin work on the first album.
In May 1994 the album was ready.
On May 27, on the day of the 291st anniversary of St. Petersburg, a party was held dedicated to the end of the recording of the first album, at which the musicians met Stas Berezovsky.
In 2004, Alexander's first solo album, Drafts, was released.
Personal life
- The first wife of Alexander, on October 12, 2006, their first son, Leonid, is born. The song "Son" from the album "Split Personality" is dedicated to this event.
- The second wife is Olga, in 2014 Alexander had a second son, Roman.
He writes music at home, on the computer. Also paints pictures. In November 2008, the first personal exhibition paintings by Vasiliev in the Vrublevskaya Gallery in Moscow. Most his free time is occupied by the Internet. Another hobby of Vasiliev is sports. He recorded the song "Handball" about this. Later the song "Match" was written. Alexander is a gourmet, prefers exotic cuisines, such as Chinese. He does not know how to cook, he likes to go to restaurants. In addition to the awards received by the group, he has the Poetry of the Year award in 2004.
He played himself in the movie "Alive". Vasiliev can also be seen in the cartoons of his old friend Oleg Kuvaev.
After demobilization, in 1992, with the help of Oleg Kuvaev, he got a job as a stage fitter in the Leningrad academic theater comedy, and then entered the Theater Institute, the department of economics. He combined his studies with the work of a stage fitter, a night watchman and work at a confectionery factory. In 1993, he met with Morozov, and they got a job at the Buff Theater, where they met a keyboard player "Pomegranate Album" after which the group becomes truly famous. In August of the same year, Spleen performed as the opening act for The Rolling Stones. The group comes Altavista, which includes some of the most unexpected, narcotic and experimental spirit-saturated songs of Vasiliev. After a lull on March 21, 2001, the album "25 frame", after which the group, together with BI-2 and Thomas, organizes a joint Fellini tour, which took place in 22 cities of Russia and abroad.
"Acoustics" - a recording of an acoustic concert played at the Stanislavsky Theater. After the release of the first single "Handball" (which, in addition to the song of the same name, included the song "North-West", the video clip "Plastic Life" and the flash video "spLean feat Masyanya", drawn by Oleg Kuvaev) and the album "New people" unexpectedly for fans, Alexander Vasiliev's solo album is released "Drafts", which collected songs written by Alexander between 1988 and 2003. There were rumors that the group was breaking up, but Vasiliev himself denied them.
"Reverse Chronicle of Events", offering listeners in addition to hits ("We sat and smoked", "Geography Lesson" and "Romance") unexpected experimental instrumental tracks, hard rock ballads and soft guitar compositions. A few months after the recording of the album, drummer Sergei Navetny left the band. They take his place "Split personality". Despite the fact that the album has enough big number songs - there are 17 of them, during the studio sessions there were at least 19 tracks recorded for this album. Two songs "3007" and "Ark" were not included in the disc. Since the fall of 2006, the song "Z007" has been played at almost every concert of the group, even "opened" some concerts, and was perceived by fans as one of the "center" songs of the future album. However, in a press release for the album published at the end of December 2006, Vasiliev stated that "'3007' sounds great live, but it loses a lot on recording, so we put it on hold for now." The song "Ark" does not get on the disc, as it is somewhat "raw" according to the musicians of the group themselves.
The song "The Ark" became available to a more or less wide audience only on January 6, 2008, when the program sounded on the waves of the radio station "Our Radio". "Christmas Concert"- a half-hour acoustic mini-concert, specially for broadcast on Our Radio, recorded by the Spleen group on the eve of the New Year in the studio.
"Signal from Space" was released on September 22, 2009. The album contains new songs composed over the previous two and a half years. At the same time, it was recorded in just 10 days, it took another 10 days to mix it. The record was recorded at the famous St. Petersburg studio "Dobrolet", where A. Alyakrinsky acted as a sound engineer. Initially, at the suggestion of the Aquarium band, the album was mixed in London at Livingston Studios. However, after the start of work, the musicians decided that the sound of the mixed songs did not suit them, and they transferred the mixing to St. Petersburg.
Illusion (2012)
On May 27, 2010, on the official website of the group, on the day of the 50th anniversary of the birth of Alexander Bashlachev, a message appears that the group may take part in recording a tribute to the musician's songs. In the first months of summer, the studio recorded the song "Petersburg Wedding" to the words of Bashlachev, on July 30, 2010 it was first performed at a concert in the Moscow club "B1 Maximum".
On February 7, 2011, a self-made clip for new song"Life flew", which became the first single from the group's new album. 12 days later, on February 19, its premiere took place at an acoustic evening in Moscow's Crocus City Hall, and on March 14, its radio version was premiered on the radio Maximum.
The band spent the summer of 2011 recording demo versions of songs for the new record, which they began recording in the fall of the same year. On October 2, at a concert in Rostov-on-Don, Alexander Vasilyev read out a new poem "We are sawing the budget", the text of which appeared the next day on the band's website.
IN last days of the outgoing year, at a concert in Tver, the debut performance of the song "Chudak" took place, the text of which was also posted on the official website.
On February 28, 2012, in an interview with Nashe Radio, Alexander Vasiliev states that the approximate release of the new disc is scheduled for autumn 2012. The new album will include the songs “Life Flew”, “Eccentric” and “Petersburg Wedding”, already illuminated by the group, previously prepared for the never-released tribute to Bashlachev.
The beginning of spring was marked by the premiere of the song "Kovsh", which took place on March 2 in the Moscow club "B2", as well as the filming of the video for the song " Terrible secret”, which became the second single from the new album and was sent to radio on March 30. The premiere of the clip, which was filmed by the studio "..others..", took place on April 6.
At concerts in May, the group already performs all 5 new songs: “Life Flew”, “Petersburg Wedding”, “Eccentric”, “Ladle” and “Terrible Secret”.
On May 29, a new poem “The Fibonacci Series” appears on the group’s website, 2 days later this work was performed by the group at a concert in the Moscow Green Theater. At the same performance, another premiere took place - at the end of the evening, the group played a new song "Magic Word".
In early June, a free author's translation of the "Fibonacci Series" appears on the site on English language, titled "The Splean". On June 7, a self-made video for this composition was posted on the site.
At a press conference held on June 29 before the band's performance at the "The Best City" festival in Dnepropetrovsk, Alexander Vasiliev confirmed that the album would be released in early autumn 2012. On September 4, Splin presented a cover version of the song Ashes by the Aquarium group. On September 21, the premiere of the song "Daughter of the Samurai" took place on Our Radio. The album was released on October 8, 2012.
Musicians who participated in the group
1994-2004 - Alexander Morozov (Morris) - bass guitar. IN currently is the group manager
1995 - August 1998 - Nikolai Lysov - drums. Currently participating in the Pilot group
September 20, 1998-2004 - Sergey Navetny (Nava) - drums. Currently working on solo project Nava and participates in the Oedipus Complex group.
2001 - Nikolai Voronov - bass guitar.
1994 - April 2006 - Stas Berezovsky - guitar. At the moment, "floating freely" and collaborating with the team of Lena Te.
1997 - April 2006 - Yan Nikolenko - flute, backing vocals, percussion. At the moment, the leader of the Oedipus Complex group, a member of the BI-2 group (keyboards, flute)
2006 - April 2006 - Vladimir Kolyada - guitar. Currently the guitarist of the Oedipus Complex band
2006 - June 2006 - Innokenty Agafonov - guitar. Currently working with the group "Spleen" as a stage technician.
Alexander Georgievich Vasiliev
Biography
He spent the first five years of his childhood in the city of Freetown (Sierra Leone), where his father (an engineer by profession) worked on the construction of the port, and his mother taught Russian language and literature at a school at the Soviet embassy.
In 1974, all Soviet citizens were evacuated from the country back to the USSR. The Vasiliev family moved to the Lithuanian city of Zarasai, and in 1976 returned to Leningrad.
Since childhood, Sasha has been interested in music, and a desire to write arises in him. In 1980, the boy Sasha Vasilyev was presented with a reel by his sister, where on one side was "Time Machine", and on the other side was the group "Sunday". In 1981, at the age of 12, he gets to the first concert in his life - the Time Machine, which impresses him very much: “Since then, I realized that I need to do the same and that I can’t get away from it.” In the seventh grade, the straight-A student Vasiliev dropped out of school, as the guitar came into his life.
In 1986, Alexander entered the Leningrad Institute of Aviation Instrumentation, where he met his future wife Sasha and Alexander Morozov (Morris). The Mitra group appears, in which, among others, Oleg Kuvaev (the future creator of Masyanya) participated. In 1988, the group tries to join the Leningrad rock club, but does not pass the selection, but the group is not let in by anyone but Anatoly Gunitsky (gr. Aquarium).
Alexander goes to the army for two years, where he writes songs that will later be included in the album Dusty Byl. In 1990, Alexander returned from the army and Oleg Kuvaev arranged for him to be a fitter at the Comedy Theater.
In 1992, Alexander entered the Faculty of Economics of the Theater Institute. Soon he gets a job at the Buff Theater, where Alexander Morozov worked as a sound engineer. Morozov (Morris) introduces Vasiliev to Nikolai Rostovsky, and they begin work on the first album. In May 1994 the album was ready.
On May 27, on the day of the 291st anniversary of St. Petersburg, a party was held dedicated to the end of the recording of the first album, at which the musicians met Stas Berezovsky. This day is the official birthday of the Spleen group.
In 2004, Alexander's first solo album, Drafts, was released.
On September 12, 2006, a significant event took place in the Vasiliev family - the son Leonid was born. The song "Son" from the album "Split Personality" is dedicated to this.
Family: wife Alexander, son Leonid
Why do people go into art at all? Because they want to run away real life. Because for some reason, she doesn't like them. That's all. And then they begin to draw, write music, write songs or do something else. (A.V.)
You always feel satisfaction about the fact that everything, the song is written, the song is finished. And at the same time devastation, which is also natural (A.V.)
Life is meaningless and merciless. Actually, therein lies its beauty. But this is the charm, and torment, and suffering, and everything else. But between them, between these two poles, in fact, there is our whole life, because we either rejoice, then we are upset, then we are glad, then we are angry, then we sleep, then we are awake. And so all my life - so constantly sausages us, we are always different, from pole to pole, now day, then night - such a class! (A.V.)
You need to have your own point of view on everything that happens around you. Indeed, everyone sees what is happening around, but only a small part of these people have their own judgments about what is happening around. And a very small part can also tell about it in a song and musical form. (A.V.)
A lot depends on the country, on the state. Which human qualities here will be welcomed and which ones will be condemned. So far, there is such a society here that there is no one to write or compose, - says Vasiliev. - And those who go to our concerts are grains, fragments. There are several groups that the same audience also goes to, an intelligent audience that was simply cut out by Lenin and Stalin. Today we have a camp country with main music chanson, with a speech interspersed with thieves and gangster slang. We play for fragments, and maybe the next shift will come out of these fragments directly. (A.V.)
