on Sunday, the group “the Time Machine” wrote in his concert biography brand new experience in Live&Drive. It’s his surprising, because until recently it seemed that part of the concert of Makarevich and impressions To very difficult to intrigue. Appartment and underground sessions with police “vintilovo”, gas attack in Philharmonic halls and sedate plush-posh Kremlin, landmark Red square and the clubs, extravagant wildlife refuges for 50 years like everything that somehow can be called a concert, this group already. And most recently rock to the patriarchs, probably, in the strange dream would not dream that in the summer of 2020, they will play in the Parking lot, and came, or rather, making the audience have to listen to their idols in cars on the radio.
the format of the concerts drive-in, in contrast to this kind of cinema, very new. The first such performance took place in may this year in a suburb of Aarhus in Denmark. Local singer and songwriter Mads Langer has announced his intention to play for the audience that will be able to comply with self-isolation in their cars, and six days before the concert in a few minutes sold 500 tickets. Due to the widespread restrictions due to pandemic at the moment it is almost the only possible form of live performances “in public”, therefore, the scheme of organization of such events was very fast and attention to details is practiced in different countries. In Moscow from July, as soon as they announced the easing mode of self-isolation, concerts in Parking lots turned into summer festival, replacing the collapsed graph rapid seasonal musical activity. In minuvshie the weekend, people at Luzhniki were fun “Night Snipers”, and that’s that “Time Machine”.
Pronzitelnoy, stiffness and sensuous poetic romanticism of Diana’s asked emotional vector concert-avtomobilnogo marathon all weekend. Basta in turn lit literally hundreds of fan-made lanterns provided a thrilling and solemn picture, “Samsara” massively paypaldev of the machines in violation of all atdistance, singing choir, and of the machines themselves crammed a little more than too much. Not counting the specifics of “interior”, everything is predictable within the trends and mood of the previous concerts Basta that “W.” described in detail it would seem more recently, but on the other hand, if in a different era and very distant times.
Fraternization same “drivers” with the fans took place, perhaps a little more restrained, but no less sincere. And this is very typical for concerts of “Time Machine” the atmosphere of universal unity. The man in pompous attire Italian mafia next to the led from the punk band “Taraka��s”, worn modest cars and vintage “rolls-Royce” in a scandalous one from another location. In General, the folk rock band…
Before the “Time Machine” the audience warmed up no less Crossroads, so the evening turned out to be more than stellar. Sergei Voronov and his gang belong to those groups which do not irritate even those Blues can not stand. On the subject of how they do it, maybe someone can write a scientific treatise, but in his lack of clear speech Crossroads have an enviable credibility, and in which good easily go solo with. Well, look at you, Mr. Voronov… Gray beard, worn Fender, the perfect black manicure. It is elegant as the piano and rock-and-roll to the tips of his dashing handlebar mustache. Moreover, both on stage and beyond. After a set of 58-year-old Sergei walked among the cars and people tenderly embracing their young (better to say very young) a beautiful wife, and never refused in a secular selfie.
“the Time Machine” came on the scene, when they began to thicken twilight. Night falls and gradually increasing the brightness of the stage lights — a great component of rock action, although what about the rock you must make an important distinction. Concert drive-in is a kind of transitional form between a live stream and full concert. This isn’t a live performance in all its power, especially regarding sound. It is understood that you are watching from the car, and the sound goes through the radio receiver, tuned to a specific frequency. You can watch and listen outside the car, but the sound will be worse because the stage is not equipped with portals, columns, and monitors that are installed for musicians, give a distorted sound image. Sight goes a little surreal, and ultimately the public at such events, almost no chance to get the full concert experience when you go out after a two-hour rock-kneading stunned and happy at the same time.
However, even with the inferior sound is much better than nothing. It is very touching to watch the live reactions of people alive on live music. Elderly couple dancing to a slow song, grey hair and life experience do not prevent people from youth to sincerely smile and even fooling around, the kids sitting on the roofs of cars, looking at their happy dad, and maybe grandparents, and obviously find it funny, all of the events.
Spice event gave of course, “protest” or “rebellious” reputation of the leader of group Andrey Makarevich, although they always expressed exclusively in the “academic” form, which, by the way, his haters hate even more. Because of this “Time Machine” periodicheski was and continues to be in the lists of suspicious and blagodatin��x substances have all sorts of powers that be. And here in the country and escalation of all things, the next remarks of Andrei Vadimovich on the topic of the day – both verbal and musical-poetic ernicheski sketches, flying over utuba and information “lightning”. In addition, even in these days all over Moscow chase pickets, and against this background people gather on their cars in the Luzhniki stadium to listen to a rock guru and the gang – downright-group “picket” of dissent.
In this context, of course, more than symbolic sound’s new song “Waking wind”, which “engineers” started their set as if in unison with the revolutionary classic “Let it storm”: “the wind Wakes up / He’s still in there somewhere behind the mountains / And it looks like we are not facing anything…”
In a conversation with “ZD” Mr. Makarevich, however, wisely smoothed the corners of such a radical perception: “Everyone is something because of the wealth of their imagination. I’m such a context is not invested, but if you stop beating people up with batons and disperse, then I’ll be happy.”
Many software hits the “Time Machine” written in stuffy times, which for 50 years the history of the band full enough, and became a real breath of fresh air for anyone looking for the songs the meaning of which was not in the first hits of the Soviet and now modern Russian Teddy-servile stage.
oddly enough, Makarevich was again the author, who is expected lines with meaning. Besides, the old song “Time Machine” once again become relevant, which at some stage looked rare historic paint and now again topical as ever. “Faces erased the colors are dull, whether people, whether dolls” – this is not retro, but rather a song about the here and now, and to their 66 years Andrei V. again utters words that, as many years ago, seem very brave and honest, and their sound looks again heroism. The rock guru responds to such estimation, as befits a poet, in a philosophical vein: “In today’s day there is so much that no writing, but some Parallels there.”
“And the little boy / Not trampled by the system / Not knowing the word “fear” Very wants to be the new / Last hero…” – the song “Sing” from the album already in 2007, Time Machine, which last years not often heard in concerts “MV”, and now, therefore, “parallel found.” And pipe Alexandra of Witkowskiego sounded particularly shrill.
the Song “Machines”, however, is designed in such a way that all members of the team was a place to show off skill, and they use this opportunity with dedication and courage: Igor Khomich blasts of guitar riffs, “Stay with me”, Alexander Levochkin not deny yourself the pleasure to decorate the old “Who would you like to surprise the” emotional keyboards, adding bold Blues and jazz paint in the hard rhythm of hard rock.
– the Song was written in 1979 – says Andrey Makarevich unusual for the band hard-rock emphasis, It was the time of our Hobbies all sorts of directions, which had not yet ended. It was perfectly natural, we were the avant-garde, country, hobby band Soft Machine. Then we pull up Led Zeppelin. All left something of their trace. And Deep Purple left. In old songs hear it.
Well, of course, “branded” the core of the group – with a clear drum rhythm Valeria Efremova, the inimitable vocal “icing on the cake” of Alexander kutikova, without which it is impossible to present a musical picture of “Turning” or “going Down to the great river”.
in Addition to new songs that have already been posted (“Waking wind”, “All the ships come home tonight”) and will be included in the new album, was first performed composition “Clock tower”. Andrei Makarevich told “W.” that the album is being mixed and will be released early fall: “the title of the album already, but we do not tell”.
after Hearing from “W.” impressions “from the audience”, Mr. Makarevich with his hand said:
– In this case more important than the emotion of the audience. With this, it seems, it worked. We were interested in. I understand that this is a forced measure, and I hope that is temporary. I’m still a traditionalist, I much more enjoyable in terms of energy to see people, feel their energy directly, and not transmitted through the horns of the cars. But still it’s funny, let’s get through this, to try. On stage, everything was very comfortable, and the sound was absolutely concert. Even in something easier, almost Studio feeling because portals just sometimes interfere with the sound that goes to the gym, it difficult to your perception, and everything was rebuilt in the Studio, and we perfectly heard each other.
Before you can inspire the audience with the hit “One day the world will SAG under us”, without which can not imagine any concert “Time Machine”, Andrey Makarevich concluded: “unexpectedly, with God’s help, celebrated the 51st birthday.”
And amazingly, that was not even trying to ban the concert, given your background, and generally the trend on total obstructionism just questionable – we tried to sharpen the question of what is happening.
– We no longer face problems in terms of organization of concerts retorted the master, neither in Moscow nor in the regions. A couple of years, but it’s somehow quiet. Everything has to end, as one wise Georgian…
This is a wonderful property that is now the great hope, had to��ncert in the Luzhniki stadium. He was slightly shorter than usual set “of drivers”, but it sounded all without what can not do the performance of the group. “The karaoke unit” of “Fire”, “For those who in the sea” and “Turning” still works well and has sunk klaxonner ecstatic roar of cars come in large numbers, and the “Candle” in the current situation, the song still sounds and therapeutic in nature. If it was a celebration on the eve of the Apocalypse, the old wisdom, “to die with music” appeared in all of carmagnole.
