Tokyo: "We are not musicians So no limits set for us"

Tokyo group appeared out of nowhere. They gradually increased its presence on television and radio shows. Released a song for the film Bondarchuk the "Company 9", after the film explodes in sales. And it has surprised many recognized by MTV RMA'2006 rock band of the year beat Mummy Troll Beasts and newfangled city 312th Just released their second album in a row, "Pulse have published 200", which was the subject of controversy by critics and fans. It was impossible not to talk to the leader of the Tokyo Jaroslav Maly all these oddities. And from the beginning, as usual interview is closed to the question of the growing group of creative plans -.. we write a song for the soundtrack That means we -.. it is not just a group of Tokyo, a large art project For example, run the project with MTV . the idea is -. we go in five European capitals on the bus runs a studio Come, give a concert, the song in the studio, and then begins to take the recording to local radio stations - purpose. that, so 3-4 days , is our song sounded on the radio in the city we want to show that there are no limits to creativity all boundaries -.... only in the human mind we want to make a film about the people who are around us tell the people often one thing and think about something else. This is a very funny movie. We do it ourselves, the self-produced. We do not know megabyudzhetnost threaten, but never let it be sincere and steep. to So be honest. You see, in America now complete stagnation it seems nothing new. And what is happening now in our country, is the core of the Russian, not clear, powerful movement. We dvizhuhu make. In the past we went to Cannes. And it turned out. Sit and watch TV with my girlfriend. They show the opening of the Cannes Film Festival. She says, and went to Cannes. I contend that there are no long any tickets and hotels full. But do call. The last two flight ticket. Fly, no hotel room. We say to the taxi driver, so he took us to the coolest hotel, home to all the superstars. He says that we are there without armor is not even up to the threshold are allowed, but we are. Several thousand people, the paparazzi and the police. We undertake to handle, pass through all the guards. And after 5 minutes already talking with Tim Roth and Sofia Coppola. Showed her his music for the new film Bondarchuk "Inhabited Iceland" by Strugatsky. She listened and said she would invite us to write music for her next film. Why am I telling you all this? In addition, if you have something to say, there are no limits. If you have something to say, there are no limits - I hear you, and a feeling that talking to Bondarchuk. - I, too, you can imagine! He's cool, I like it. He does not blinded - that it should be so, and it is - so. He was still mobile. And that we had agreed. How did the soundtrack for "Inhabited Island"? He did not have anything at all, except for the script. I asked him to read the script, and a week later brought him 15 titles. It is a mixture of rock with electronics, pulse pause. Now go and listen in the car. And by the way, to go and listen to our new album ... - By the way, today I also heard with pleasure. - My situation is more complicated. I do it several times a day with joy pereslushivayu (laughs). I mean, I moved out of town. And while he was in Moscow, I listen to the album. - How old axiom that the Russian musician can not get no progress in the West, she something? - The fact that we are not musicians. And never were not. And when I picked group Tokyo, I saw that the people do not have music education. I was kicked out of the well of the College of Music with 3 courses. - For what? - When my father asked the director to the same, he replied: "In everything!" That's it. But in fact, I was there now loved and respected. Turn off the TV, and there I am. Wow, what a mistake! (Laughs) - This is the way many were geniuses. - Thanks for the genius. I do not consider myself particularly talented, but a lot of love in me. I believe that people dig into their own problems - who in the glamor of war, in the office, in the political intrigue. People caught up in their own problems, they do not feel the freedom. And I like people who have no limits, they are free men. And I want the people to convey their point of view. Think I have a right to. And the last time that I can do it. - The new album songs - sell. Then, at what stage are joined other musicians? - The stage arranger, step recording - play something. I'm no musician. We have the best musicians in the group - Dema (Demian Kurchenko - Ed.) He can play incredible things. With drummer Roma (Roman Titenshteyn - Ed.) Is the story. We needed a drummer, and we filed a declaration of a set. At that time we were very promising as, and came to most auditions have that mastodons drumming. No, I do not "vshtyril." Then came the Roma he played openly bad, but I found understanding person. We told him to learn a little game, and come back a year. And forgotten. A year later there was a knock on our door at the base, we drove a song - is Roma sets down and plays smoothly all of our program from the beginning to the end. That's for me! If a person wants to play, it does not matter whether he studied at the conservatory. If he lives and breathes music - that's what we need. - This is at the level of sensations contact? - Absolutely. - And at the level of style? On the website, you define yourself as an extreme Pop. - This is for journalists, because they always want that we somehow decided on the style. For them, it was easier. And we came up with this incredible stuff (smiles Jaroslav). - You are one of the few artists who does not hide his Jewish origins and study the Torah. The Torah gives answers to complex questions? After all, even within Israel's Orthodox Jews seem archaic and out of time in their actions. - For me, the Torah - a living book. I can not Hasid not conservative, not Orthodox. I feel like it - lives. I'm just an ordinary regular guy, I think. And I see that become the pendulum motion of the head and the learned orthodox everyday business. I do not support such a business. If there was a fire, and it burns in - called meaningful Torah love. Of course helps the Torah. I open it and feel it helps me. I'm confused, I carried away, I'm in the wrong state - and the Torah as a medicine. It is He gave the Torah. Of course it helps. - This is both the divine wisdom, not as a collection of rules right? They give concerts on Saturday? - I try not to give concerts on Saturday. But since so many people rely on me - sometimes I have to do it. At such moments, I ask him for forgiveness. I'm sorry, and I give a concert. And I try to man the Sabbath particularly large. Get the most beautiful concerts. Here comes peace. And nothing can compare with him. - Most of the musicians with whom we are talking, you tell me that love - is the most important message in their work. Everyone wants to bring love. What is your difference? - If you love him, I love you all - and his girlfriend, and your business, and movies and music. And if you want something that you like the variety of the world - something is wrong. Each album is dedicated to him, many of the songs - that's our difference. Someone could call it a message to the girl, or to know the love of the country, but he can not feel the depth of the message. I can not overestimate the music. I know that the music - it's just music. But I'm looking for the time to express your feelings looking. We need to listen to the songs, and that's all. I think that the general feeling of tiredness in the world should lead to something. - Runs as a rule to the revolution. - The revolution must be in there. External Revolution lead to nowhere, just to change the image. People bitter and no longer. We already had a dangerous experience of the revolution. The revolution must be! Photo Maltsev - lyrical hero of your songs is "I"? - Yes, no, I do not lyrical. Although I often look recently at ourselves. Looking at the movements of his body, to shoot a video for the interview for another journalist ... I try viewed from the side, watched him. This is a theater. Place the camera in the vicinity of people and equipment - to be a theater, they will sit and listen to what's going on. Remove theater and film, and there are a lot of technologies and replace the image - all. Enjoy the freedom. - The whole world - theater, and we all - the actor in him, in the words of Shakespeare You feel like an actor? - Shakespeare was a handsome man I feel like a partner in his game. I play with him. And this is a thrill because you're not a puppet. You give love and receive love. You decide where to go. - But the main purpose - self-improvement? - Love to bring - The main objective. But these feelings with other people, which I can give, in fact, only through self-improvement. Perfection can not be without the transfer, otherwise it is - self. - Where is the limit for this? There were musicians, which gave the world a lot, and ended his days in a lunatic asylum. For example, Syd Barrett. It's not just drugs ... - Drugs - that is what will be given to you. They are there, you can add them. But the excitement is to enjoy life as it is. In my life there were drugs, I know what it is. But the state in which I am now - it is a pure state, and no more buzz. If you are in the soul, and you know what happens. It is important to specify that. You can use a podium. This is the world of wishes, and if you want something bad, you get it. But what comes next? Then you can be in an insane asylum. And you can feel the joy in the world. Somehow, it all depends on you. Freedom. - If you have a stand and say something - good. But because the public is not willing to do anything to be heard. - This is our way. What can you do? When we recorded the first album, we had very few people want to hear. And now the album is some record differs. So, people hear us. - Do not change yourself for the audience itself, chewed gruel, not simplify many things? - The most powerful, beautiful and true things are the greatest simplicity. If I can, that I could simplify my course to the end - I would be happy (smiles Jaroslav). - ". Beautiful Indira Gandhi" Then make it easy for me, the word of how beautiful she is to you this wonderful and intelligent woman? - This is a song about a dream. The song has nothing to Indira Gandhi and the group Tokio not together on the city of Tokyo. It was written years ago, 4.5 if I felt in my life, a new phase. I did not write anything that was not for a long time, the rest. Severe were the days. So I wrote a song about what happened to me happened. When you come to the outermost point, always keep the hope that you will all continue understood differently. But what exactly is different, that's a secret. - Then it is logical, the lyrics to people, which is slightly greater reach than you use - for example, Shakespeare. - No! (Laughs Jaroslav) Shakespeare spoke in their own language for the people who lived then. We live in a different time, we have a wider meaning than it was then. We have more options. Every time - their poets. Ask., Imagine that someone is singing sonnets of Shakespeare - I can. Little-known singer Alla Pugacheva sang Shakespeare Sonnet 40. - For me, Alla Pugacheva - a "Hold my straw hold" or "millions of red roses." There was a time, and she sang the appropriate time language. - A Pugacheva sings Tsvetaeva? - Cool. Obviously converges puzzle - age and sense of time. There was harmony in this sense. The feeling is female long it takes, but life has been lived. It was very cool. - From a musical point of view, why the desire for purity and simplicity of expression Tokyo leads to rock and pop-rock, and not to the Naiman or Schoenberg? - The whole feeling. When I make music, I do not know about Nyman or Schoenberg, fashion or not thinking fashion. I just feel the sound. Rages strongly feel in the coming new age. It happens on the heels of us. And there are people who understand it. And most people who do not understand. I do not feel that I am away from something. I go on a bit. I hear something that makes me sit down at the piano, and in a few hours ready song. In music, the main thing - energy. I'm already thinking about the third album, the second album, because we have lived. People listen to him, but we play different music. I want to make a fully electronic trance music with powerful drums, with powerful guitar riffs and megaprogressivnymi noises. With low vokaloi and explosive choruses. I believe that this sound has now power. And rely on someone does not make sense. In me is a lot of energy. The second album - is a tripp iness album. They dive and dive in these states. Pass travel within which - contact and love and feelings, and to him, and the cruelty of this world. A third album - it's like a locomotive running at speeds of one million km / h - It will be the same length songs? - It will be long. I do not need the frame. Only work in film has taught me not to stay in tune. May take 15-20 minutes. But if after 2 minutes, I feel that all - that it will end in 2 minutes. - It would seem in the style of MTV used kaleidoscopic perception of music - 2-3 minutes, no more. - ". Bohemian Rhapsody" Queen over, they also say that, but it was a hit, the same is true of "Well, you remember what the Indira Gandhi said," radio versions, it takes more than 7 minutes, however, it sounded in. Radio Maximum entire 9 months in hot rotation. And it was not cut. This song is everything. We stand as saboteurs. We introduce in this market. And then it all on his own. Of course, the audience or the Russian Radio Europa Plus is not really ready for a long composition. You go to sleep or change. People have to teach a little. I'm going to do it for 4 minutes. And I have a song for 3 minutes, but you will never hear on the radio, because the radio - some separate substance. We connect with extreme pop. To Extreme published his molecules and infected objects we are interested. - The reason neohippi the feeling of a new era with the Renaissance, which is called in Europe? Wave of "love, peace and flowers" to a technocratic level than in the 60s. - The idea of love, peace and flowers are not the test of each level. For it is like a body without a backbone. If you do not like one who created this world, and we love this world and the flowers - you're kinda gets without hrebetika. This idea flops and technocratic, and on another level. And even if you reach it, it will not bring you joy. Need an idea of what is infinite. - I've heard that you dare to publish an English album? - File? For me it is harmonious. To our audience, the third album will be in Russian, but it will be for English speaking audiences in Europe. Most likely we will do, music producer Oasis. We met him after the show. He makes a great surround sound, and we are interested. And he has never worked with a powerful electronic sound, it is also interesting. The only problem is that I do not know enough English to write text on it. Because I write in Russian, translated into English. This - the only difficulty. Ken Guru magazine "Jeans"