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When music is felt via body, not only via ears, it doesn't
necessarily point out on its volume. During «AtmAsfera» concert which plays the
mixture of ethno with world music, many people «fly away» and come back to
their bodies only when the sound is off. «I felt that life is not so hopeless
and I can wake up in the morning and start doing something without thinking how
all this got me», - such letters come very often to the members of the band
from many cities.
- Nastya, Yulya,
your voices are very much alike. Don't they confuse you on the phone?
Yulya: My husband
confuses our voices very often.
Nastya: I take
the receiver… and then: «Svyatoslav, wait a second, it is not Yulya».
- Your album has
been recorded. Is it true that it will be issued in America?
N.: Where did you
get this information?..
Andrey: Maybe,
but something clear will be known later on.
- The disc was
made two years ago, why it has not been issued?
À.: Last year we
made a small number of CD on the rights of demo version … You know yourself how
it is with piracy discs. We would like to get copyright on music and discs, so
for the moment this issue is pending.
- People who
write music are without a doubt successful people. What would you like to say
with your music?
N.: I have been
playing for a long time. Before I had quite a different point of view. But it
changed on the third year of studying, when I was dissapointed in my aims and
dreams, although I managed to achive them to some degree. I always wanted to
offer something to people, I wanted to reach out to them in some way. But I saw
that I didn't manage to do that thru classic music that I played. Maybe not at
this time?
- There were
times when you played rock music. Why do you concentrate on ethno music now?
Yulya: People
react better on ethno music performed by us.
Àndrey.: But we
will play art rock also.
Yulya.: Simply in
art rock I didn't find either my voice, or my manner of playing apart from
ethno music, although we didn't stop our reportoir on it.
- You sing in
ukrainian, english and sanscrit. Which of us knows sanscrit?
Àndrey.: None of
us.
Yulya: We learnt
sanscrit a bit, but we can only speak it...Sanscrit is the origin of all
languages and it brings the uniting chain in itself. And it is very pleasant to
hear, it is melodic and very unusual. I haven't heard anyone singing in
sanscrit in Ukraine.
- Where did you
learn sanscrit?
Yulya.: There are
books in sanscrit with translation, so we learnt from them.
Àndrey.: We take
very ancient texts. For example, one of the songs that we sing is considered to
be the first song in the universe.
- What will a new
member of the band, Timur, say?
Timur: When I
came into the band, I was impressed by their behavior and all the myths that
they are satanists were gone. (Wild laughter.) We were united by a very good
person who is not here now, unfortunately, he is in Poland, his name is Taras.
I understood how to talk to the band member thanks to him – you should talk
like this (he cries out very loudly): «Don't wake up Taras in me». So in such a way we come to
consensus. In most cases of course I am not right, but certainly women are not
right even more so…
- Did Georgian blood speak now in you?
Timur.: Yeah,
Georgian… Now we will talk about ukrainian: I like lard, but I will stop eating
it because it is a very white product, and I was grown up in Africa. There was
lard also, but it was dark, because it was dirty. They didn't clean anything,
And in fact I didn't clean my body at all and up to 20 years old I was sure
that I am negro untill they washed me...But we will finish this interview on
this point, because I don't want to tell any other details of my sinful life.
Goodbye, dear friends...Turn it off.
Text: STAR`shoi. |