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In 1988, the Leap Year group emerged as a “concept” in the mind of Ilya Kalinnikov, when he contemplated the industrial landscape from the window of the Fryazino-Moscow electric train, trying to write a song. He thought it would be nice to call this song "Leap Year". Then he thought it would be nice to call the group that. It happened so. And it was too late to change anything.
In 1990, the Leap Year group emerged as a group of very young people with rhyming
by internal messages and similarly directed vectors of the application of efforts. The truth since then (and before these) existed (and exists) in the formulated quality rather rarely. And people came and went, but that's another story. And the song "Leap Year" remained unfinished.
The Leap Year ensemble includes Ilya Kalinnikov (vocals, lead guitar, songwriter), Ilya Sosnitsky (keys), Pavel Seryakov (bass
Guitar), Dmitry Guguchkin (lead guitar), Dmitry Kukushkin (guitar).
1995, January - The Best Love Song was born. The first person to mix the song was Alexander Kutikov ("Time Machine"). The first version of the song remained on the collection 101 Hit. Issue 4 ". (1997).
In winter, the song "Silent Light" was born, again under the influence of Alexander Kutikov, who hinted, as in the case of "The Best Love Song", that more hits are needed. 1998
January - the first radio broadcast ("Best Love Song" recorded in 1997). 1999, March - solo guitarist Dmitry Guguchkin left the group. 2000, March - the final version of the song "Metro" was recorded.
2000, on the night of April 5 - the first radio broadcast of the song "Metro", "Autoradio", Moscow. In the same year, with the song "Metro", the group rotated on the leading Moscow radio stations, incl. "Our Radio", is included in the hit parade "Chartova Dozen", and then wins in it, was
lurking on the first line for 7 weeks. In the same year, the first studio album was recorded and released.
In 2004, the group disappeared from the sight of fans and critics and ceased its musical activities. The band of musicians breaks up by the end of 2006. At the end of 2006, the band reunites with a renewed line-up and begins preparations for the release of their second studio album. Its release is scheduled for August 2007.
Leap Year - a rock band from Fryazino near Moscow.
Critics note her closeness to the national stage, warmth, sentimental lyricism, " rare sincerity and confidentiality of Leap Year songs", among which they received special fame,,,. Phrase" We invented Windows, we defaulted"has actually become popular.
In 1988 Leap Year group emerged as a "concept" in the mind Ilya Kalinnikov when he contemplated the landscape from the window of the Fryazino-Moscow train and composed a song. He thought it would be nice to call this song Leap Year. Then he thought it would be nice to call the group that way. And so it happened. And the song Leap year and remained unfinished.
In 1990 The Leap Year group emerged as an amateur group of very young people.
The Leap Year group includes:
In 1994 joins the group Pavel Seryakov - Bas-guitar.
In 2000 joins the group Dmitry Kukushkin - button accordion, guitar.
Night of April 5, 2000- the first radio broadcast of the song on Autoradio. In the same year with a song Underground the group rotates on all leading Moscow radio stations, including Our Radio, is included in the hit parade Chart dozen, and then wins it, staying on the first line for 7 weeks. In the same year, an album was recorded and released.
August 2000- An experienced concert manager joins the group Alexey Kan, and from this moment the concert activity of the Leap Year group begins. Alex Kahn- the permanent administrator of the group from 2000 to the present day.
October 2000 - the group receives an invitation from Alla Pugacheva to take part in the "Christmas Meetings". The group gets a rare opportunity at "Christmas meetings" to perform not one, but two songs ( Best Love Song, Underground). Performing in "Christmas Meetings" brings the group nationwide success.
2001 March- song Silent light becomes the title track of the popular TV series Truckers. The same 2001 Leap Year is nominated for an award Ovation, becomes a laureate Songs of the Year and award winner Stopud hit.
In 2002 Ilya Kalinnikov hand over Gold Star Autoradio.
In 2003 Ilya Kalinnikov invites you to record one of the songs Mikhail Mitin - drums and Dmitry Shumilov - Bas-guitar- legendary musicians. From that moment Mikhail Mitin becomes the permanent drummer of the Leap Year group.
In 2005 the group disappears from the field of view of fans and critics, stopping performances in Moscow. Ilya Kalinnikov abandons the idea of recording a new album. The band continues to tour and perform at private events only.
June 2006- leave the group Pavel Seryakov and Ilya Sosnitsky (organized a project In the world today ).
2006 August- returns to the group Dmitry Guguchkin - Bas-guitar... A place keyboard player takes Ilya Murtazin.
2006 october- Leap Year resumes concert activities. Young musicians join the group - Yuri Vanteev - pipe, and Renat Halimdarov - trombone.
Leap Year has never had a producer, and in the traditional show business " promotion"Not a penny was invested.
September 2007- Ilya Kalinnikov is awarded the second Golden Disc from the National Federation of Phonogram Producers for the album.
February 2008- the group releases. All songs were remixed, 4 bonus tracks added.
Leap Year group composition:
Ilya Kalinnikov - songwriter, vocals, guitarDmitry Kukushkin - button accordion, guitar
Dmitry Guguchkin - bass guitar, guitar
Ilya Murtazin - keyboards
Mikhail Mitin - drums
Yuri Vanteev - pipe
Renat Halimdarov - trombone
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There are many mysterious characters among pop singers and other performers. They are known by sight and by name, they are regulars of secular parties. At the same time, no one can remember what and when they sang for the last time.With the group "Leap Year" the situation is exactly the opposite. Their “Best Love Song” or “Metro” is perhaps not heard by a deaf person.
But almost nothing is known about them.
“So you write what I am,” Leap Year leader Ilya Kalinnikov admonished me during an interview. - Actually, I'll tell you myself: I'm lazy, not very smart and very boring. But you write your opinion too - it will be interesting for me to read it ”. Well. Really boring, definitely not stupid and very arrogant. The following conversation with him took place six months ago. Then I was asked to change the text - which is generally understandable: after taking part in the “Christmas meetings” for Pugacheva it is difficult to throw mud at show business - Ilya himself undertook to add and rewrite something. But I haven't changed anything in the text. Not because I'm so mean. It just seems to me that everything he said in the interview is real. It will tell better than me what he is ...
Show business and child prostitution - for me it has one aura "
Ilya, there is a lot of talk about your group, but no one has seen you. Tell me, the fact that you have not been shone anywhere for a long time, have not given interviews, is this a deliberate policy or? ..
- Yes, in general, no one asked for an interview for a long time. And then - yes, it was a deliberate policy. But not for advertising purposes, but just the opposite - so as not to sink to self-sale. You see, when I get paid for a concert, I don't have the feeling that I'm being sold. This is adequate pay for hard work - mine and the group. And when it comes to advertising, here the feeling of vulgarity does not let me go.
I have two girls-neighbors - very beautiful girls. I often hear them from their windows hear the songs of "Leap Year", when we meet in the yard, they politely say to me: "Hello." But they have no idea that I wrote these songs.
- Part of this policy is that you haven’t made a single video yet?
- We wanted to shoot a video for Metro, but I canceled everything. Let me explain why. For example, when you listen to this song, do you have any associations? .. Well, I didn't want some upstart music video maker to try to impose his artistic delights on your sacred imagination. It would still be nonsense, although for us it would be a huge advertisement. But I didn't want to sell the song for an advertisement.
- What you say is not entirely according to the laws of show business.
- And I never wanted to do show business. He is disagreeable to me in spirit. He combines in himself that which should not be combined in principle - the realization of the highest creative impulses and cynicism, venality. Show business, arms trade and child prostitution - for me, they all have the same aura. Tell me, do you have a category of people - social, professional - that are unpleasant to you? Homeless people, for example?
- Well, homeless people are unpleasant, yes. Although there was one bum whom I fed.
- So I have people in show business that I feed. But it doesn't really change anything, does it?
- Then why not find yourself a more spiritually appropriate occupation, for example, planting flowers or teaching at school?
- Yes, you see, such a thing as songwriting ...
- Yeah, it doesn't choose.
- It kind of forces you not to do something else. Although, when I walk past the school, my heart skips a beat. Seriously I'm telling you. My dream is to make a lot of money and go to work as a teacher in school. What will they take. Maybe a teacher of literature ... True, Russian is also needed there. But in general, I write competently. When I studied at one technical university - we will not specify which one - it was strict with this, the teacher gave a two for one mistake.
- Tell me, how did your songs appear on the radio?
- A friend took it. From January 1, 1998, they began to play on "Autoradio".
- 98th? And your debut album - "Which Comes Back" - was released only in 2000. Why?
- Let's just say: he insisted, like an expensive wine, tested by time. That is, there was a desire to release an album then, but it was like that - teenage. And by the spring of that year, it became clear that he needed to be released. I don’t want to, but it’s necessary that he has nothing else to do on the shelf in our studio. The album was completely finished, the only thing we finished writing was Metro. It was important for me to finish it - for several years it lay on my soul with a heavy burden. I made it completely myself: I wrote the songs myself, sang them myself, played them myself - that is, the guys also played, but I also mixed the album and did the design for it - everything.
- And yet there is one song that is not yours - “A certain nobody”.
- This is the song of my friend - Boris Bazhenov. He is a genius performer, could be more popular than everyone you know. But he did not want show business, show business did not want him. Now this man is already many years old - I went to listen to him when I was 14, and he - how old I am now. He has not written for a long time, he is doing something very far from music. Therefore, it was important for me to perform one of his old songs. "A certain nobody" was written in the 85th year.
- On the compact, your group is represented: name, first letter of patronymic and surname.
- So, in the English manner, without any idea or malice.
- But you and the guys, I hope, do not call each other by first name and patronymic?
- Sometimes - by name and patronymic, but always - by "you". It is convenient: some business, vanity ... He addressed by name and patronymic - immediately attracted attention.
"I played the piano at the rental shop"
Where were you before, before you became famous?
- In Fryazino. Or, as our director Masha Khopenko says, "in an asshole." Masha is an enchanting lady, she does not go into her pocket for a word.
- Yes, we're not talking about Masha now.
- No, it’s about her, because thanks to her this album was released.
- Well, then let's talk about Masha.
- Masha is the best woman in the world that I have ever seen.
- She's your wife, or what?
- No, she's twice my age. We met her in 94.
- And yet - what did you do before "Leap Year"?
- Yes, in general, the same as now, - wrote songs.
- And how old were you when you wrote the first song?
- Thirteen or fourteen. She was probably about love. I do not remember exactly. In general, I don’t remember many things - how it all began, and what songs I wrote then. This is how I met the guys with whom we later played in the group - I remember. I came to our local club "Fakel", a children's VIA rehearsing there. I suggested: let's create a group, but they just didn't have the nerve to say that they already have a group. Somehow so imperceptibly I moved their leader, and they began to rehearse my songs with almost a full complement. One of those guys - Ilya Sosnitsky - still plays in my group. For 11 years already. The other - Dima, the guitarist - left not so long ago. Even before everything began to unfold. He found himself a serious business, and he did not have time for senseless occupation with my songs. Now he is a waiter in London, he regrets terribly ... (Laughs.) This is Zhvanetsky.
- And you yourself have never doubted that songs are exactly what you should do? After all, you entered a technical university ...
- Yes, I really did not go anywhere. I was very young - then everything worked out by itself. Friends went - and I went. Then he dropped it. This is not important, but the fact that I wrote songs even then. And he considered it his main occupation, Although not permanent. I still do this very sporadically.
- Do you have a musical education?
- No. I was not admitted to the music school. Due to lack of hearing. My grandfather took me there when I was six years old. He had a friend in the service of everyday life - at the box office. When we went for a walk with him, my grandfather came to her to chat about life, and while they chatted, I climbed into the corner and “played” the piano that was standing there. And with great pleasure. Therefore, my grandfather decided to send me to a music school in the piano class. And I was very upset when nothing came of it. By the way, he lived to a ripe old age and, dying, knew that I was making music.
- Who did your parents want you to be?
- My mom has always been loyal to what I do. And now she is loyal. She likes a lot of my songs. She is a surprisingly calm person. Calls: come to my soup. I say: “Mom, what kind of soup? I'm on tour in Samara ”. And she: “Yes, what kind of tour? What is Samara? I have soup. Come. "
"The best love song is from Grebenshchikov or Vysotsky"
When Metro took first place in the charts of Our Radio ...
- How did I feel? I am often asked about this. And I didn't feel anything, I was at the concert at that time and was nervous, as usual.
- I wonder how you took it: as a matter of course - "my song is really the best" - or as a fluke?
- And that, and another was. Then in second place, it seems, was Zemfira's song, and also about the metro - "She reads in the metro Nabokov." Lovely song! Although mine is very good. I’ll say more, when I heard it for the first time, I was simply flattened, I couldn’t believe that I could write such a thing.
- In “Metro” there is a line: “Our children swear, we ourselves are almost gone”. I always wanted to ask: "we" - who is this?
- This is a collective character: me and someone else, whom I thought about, with whom I connected this song. In general, this topic is very painful for me. When I wrote Metro, I even said to myself: that's it, no more songs, that's how she tortured me. Then - in September 1999 - we played it just once and threw it on the shelf. “We” are those who could serve in intelligence, play a movie, who could accomplish something, and now they go stupidly in the metro, no one knows why there, no one knows why back. If you add up everything that people think about in the subway, and then display the arithmetic mean, this will be what this song is about. And also about love, the most hopeless love in the world.
- By the way, it is “Metro” that is considered your best love song.
- And my “Best Love Song” was titled as a joke. Many years ago I met Alexander Viktorovich Kutikov, bassist and sound producer of the Time Machine group. He listened to our demonstration and said: “Ilya, what is it! You seem to be able to write songs, but you write God knows what! Write a song that is great. And about love. " I wrote. And so that he liked it, he put “The best song about love” on top of the cassette.
- By the way, Kutikov once played in the Leap Summer group.
- Yes, an incredible coincidence. When I called the group "Leap Year" I had no idea about it. So don't accuse me of plagiarism.
- And you have already been accused. On the Internet, they are discussing the fact that “Metro” is an exact copy of one of the compositions of the Portuguese singer Cesaria Evora. 95th album, song - “Consedjo”.
- Nonsense. I know this singer. But I only got her record a couple of months ago. I've never plagiarized anything. Although there are coincidences.
- What would you call the best love song?
- ... You can't tell right away. But I'm almost sure that it would be something from the repertoire of Grebenshchikov or Vysotsky. Or from the poems of Pasternak.
"I would like to lose ten kilograms, otherwise it interferes with sex"
After all, you do not exclude that your popularity will pass and you will go back to your Fryazino. What do you think to do then?
- Firstly, I already live in Fryazino. And secondly, how do I know what will happen next? I don't even know what is happening to me now. Here was a concert in Samara. It went perfectly. But my soul is bad: why do I need all this?
- Maybe just tired?
- Tired ... On stage you turn into a certain character - like a theatrical actor, only his range is wider. You stand in front of the microphone, in your hands a guitar, and everything goes according to the script - not a word in the song to change, not to place accents otherwise.
- Well, they would have made a fool of themselves and changed the words in the song ...
- And we, by the way, change. In “Metro”, when we sing for an encore. It originally had eight verses, which is a bit long, but at a concert we sometimes sing them all. Instead of the words: “We came up with Windows, we declared the default,” there were others.
- What kind?
- I will not say. If you come to the concert, you will hear. The line about Windows and the default appeared when we were recording the song. I don’t remember how it happened. I was in a good mood, they began to joke. We have Pashka, the bass player, such a wit! And Ilya Sosnitsky is terribly funny. Pashka will start to laugh - and he just carries it, Ilya immediately collapses in hysterics, and Pashka sees it and, of course, tries even more. At the moment of such a "revelry" these words were invented.
In general, we talk with the audience during concerts, we ask them to send us notes. They know little about us so far - let them ask. By the way, I have notes from the last concert with me. Do you want to read it? .. There are such interesting ones. “Regular listener Sergey is writing to you with her friends Sveta and Sveta. Please sing the song “Valenki”. Or, for example: “We liked you very much, I love you very much. Kiss. The girl with the largest breasts. " I read this note at the concert out of inertia by ear, then - oh ... I joked like: well, how will I figure you out, girl? A second note arrived. With phone.
- In general, fans get it?
- It's a terrible thing. They are waiting after the concerts. I’m already trying to dress, wrap myself up so that they don’t recognize - they will still recognize. I can imagine what will start when we shoot the video ... Another note: “Tell me, do you have children? And do they swear? "
- Good question, by the way.
- Don't take this opportunity. I am actually afraid that as a result of my activities in show business, I will not have any personal life at all.
- Tell me at least: do you have a beloved woman?
- I, in any case, she has - that's for sure.
- You have already achieved something: your songs are loved by the people, the album is out ...
- I would still lose twenty kilograms.
- Yes, I actually wanted to ask about creative achievements ...
- Or at least ten, otherwise it interferes with sex. Then I'll be proud of myself.
Leap Year - a rock band from Fryazino near Moscow. Critics note her closeness to the national stage, warmth, sentimental lyricism, “rare sincerity and trust in the songs of a Leap Year”, among which “The Best Song of Love”, “Metro”, “Silent Light”, “Cinema” and others were especially famous. "We invented Windows, we declared the default" has actually become popular. In 1988, the Leap Year group emerged as a “concept” in the mind of Ilya Kalinnikov, when he contemplated the landscape from the window of the Fryazino-Moscow train and composed a song. He thought it would be nice to call this song "Leap Year". Then he thought it would be nice to call the group that way. And so it happened. And the song "Leap Year" remained unfinished. In 1990, the Leap Year group emerged as an amateur group of very young people. The Leap Year ensemble includes Ilya Kalinnikov (voice, guitar, songwriter), Dmitry Guguchkin (lead guitar), Ilya Sosnitsky (keys). In 1994 Pavel Seryakov (bass guitar) joined the group. In 2000, Dmitry Kukushkin (button accordion, guitar) joined the group. 1995, January - The Best Love Song was born. The first mentor and producer of the group was Alexander Kutikov ("Time Machine"). Their cooperation, which arose in 1996, did not lead then to practical results, but gave Ilya Kalinnikov important experience in show business. (1997). In winter, the song "Silent Light" was born, again under the influence of Alexander Kutikov, who hinted, as in the case of "The Best Love Song", that more hits are needed. 1998, January - the first radio broadcast ("Best Love Song" recorded in 1997). 2000, March - the final version of the song "Metro" was recorded. 2000, on the night of April 5 - the first radio broadcast of the song "Metro" on "Avtoradio", Moscow. In the same year, with the song "Metro", the group rotated on all leading Moscow radio stations, including Nashe Radio, entered the Chartova Dozen hit parade, and then won it, remaining on the first line for 7 weeks ... In the same year, the album "Which Returns" was recorded and published. 2000, August - the experienced concert manager Alexey Kan joins the group, and from that moment the concert activity of the Leap Year group begins. Alex Kahn is the permanent administrator of the group from 2000 to the present day. 2000, October - The group receives an invitation from Alla Pugacheva to take part in the "Christmas Meetings". The group gets a rare opportunity at the "Christmas Meetings" to perform not one, but two songs ("Best Love Song", "Metro"). Performing in "Christmas Meetings" brings the group nationwide success. 2001, March - the song "Silent Light" becomes the title track of the popular TV series "Truckers". In the same 2001 "Leap Year" was nominated for the "Ovation" award, became a laureate of "Song of the Year" and a laureate of the "Stopudovy Hit" award. In 2002, Ilya Kalinnikov was awarded the "Gold Star of Autoradio". In 2002 the song "Kino" appeared on the air of radio stations, in 2003 - "Bringing good luck", in 2004 - "Who is here?", In 2005 - "Nobody but you", in 2006 - "Call!". In 2003, Ilya Kalinnikov invited Mikhail Mitin (drums) and Dmitry Shumilov (bass guitar), the musicians of the legendary "Polite Refusal", to record one of the songs. From that moment on, Mikhail Mitin became the permanent drummer of the Leap Year group. In 2005, the group disappeared from the sight of fans and critics, stopping their performances in Moscow. Ilya Kalinnikov rejects the idea of recording a new album. The band continues to tour and perform at private events only. 2006, June - Pavel Seryakov and Ilya Sosnitsky leave the group (they organized the "Today in the World" project). 2006, August - Dmitry Guguchkin (bass guitar) returns to the group. The place of the keyboardist is taken by Ilya Murtazin. 2006, October - "Leap Year" resumes concert activity. The group is joined by young musicians - Yuri Vanteev (trumpet) and Renat Halimdarov (trombone). "Leap Year" never had a producer, and not a penny was invested in the "promotion" traditional in show business. 2007, September - Ilya Kalinnikov is awarded the second "Golden Disc" from the National Federation of Phonogram Producers for the album "Which Returns". 2008, February - The band releases a reissue of their debut album. All songs were remixed, 4 bonus tracks added.