Biography
Identify the genre of music that the group "foot!" Is performed, even the most persistent critic will not take. This is a poorest combination of punk, ass, indie and electronic sound. Plus, this is poems, naive, funny and incomprehensible as "Haru Mamburu," who turned into an eternal hit of the team."Leave a foot!" - long-livers of the Russian scene, nevertheless, their own creativity performers are determined as an antipode of mainstream. The leader of the Maxim Pokrovsky group characterizes three decades in music as years spent in the fight against the laws of show business. And, according to the army of fans, the victory of their favorites is no doubt.
The history of creation and composition
In 1988, life was brought together Max Pokrovsky, Vitaly Akshevsky and Anton Yakomulsky. After a couple of months, the Friends took into its ranks of the Moscow Rock Laboratory. Thanks to her director, Olga neat tidy for the new team, the name "Leg reduced!" "So she stated a group to participate in the music festival."
Soon the first songs appeared, the guys began to gain popularity. At concerts within the capital, "Polyclinic", "Madhouse", "Olga", "Tazepam" sounded. The same compositions entered the billet for the debut album "1: 0 in favor of girls."
But the progressive tartan style soon fed up, and Pokrovsky saw a solution to the problem in updating the composition. The frontman of the Anarcho Punk Group "Mongol Shuudan" Valery has recommended a guitarist Igor Lapukhin. It was hitting the point: guitar bodies have become an integral part of the group compositions.
In 1995, a new participant has joined the team - the keyboard player Viktor Medvedev, Alexander Volkov came to replace him. Later, the ranks of Igor Markov and Maxim Likhachev replenished the ranks later, who had previously composed part of the "Brigade C". In 2007, the group left Yakomulsky, and Dmitry Krichevsky was replaced by Dmitry.
Since 2016, the composition has undergone a series of changes. Evgeny Kondratyev joined the team, Victor Kukrmin replaced Dmitry Krichevsky for the impact installation, Igor Lapukhin left the group, Guitarist Maxim Zorine took his place.
Music
In 1992, when the "foot drove!" He represented the trio, came out the album "Caprises of mannequins". The group already knew in the country, the guys "lit up" on television. Almost immediately the team has established itself with excellent concert sound and has become a permanent guest of large festivals like "invasion", "Chernozem", "Maxidrome". After the speech on the stage of the "generation" with the "phonetic nonsense" Haru Mamburu "" Glory covered the team with his head. Song 3 or 4 options for execution and 2 clips.The album of the same album includes 22 tracks. The musicians would record and more, but the technical capabilities were limited - there was no place for CD.
In the 1995th, the "foot drove!" With a scope, I conducted a presentation of the Album "Siberian Love" with the involvement of the Symphony Orchestra and the Music Team of the FSB. For the first time, the group was recorded in the tone-studio "Mosfilm" - the most expensive and modern studio at that time in Russia.
The next stage of creativity is the dilogy "happy, because pregnant", including the "blue" and "green" part, with the hits "Moscow Romance" and "Liliputa love". Subsequently, the song was performed in two different versions. The first version of the text is dedicated to a basketball player, and the second - Bottchman.
On the 10th birthday, the participants made themselves a gift in the form of a "Calla" record, in which, according to their own admission, included the most abnormal, which did not sound the compositions before.
The album "in the dark" was released in 2002. The tragic confluence is connected with a clip on one of the songs of the collection.
By itself, the gloomy text of the track "Our young funny voices" decided to accompany no less terrible video, the main topic of which are the funeral of the participants alive. The team personally digs in the frame of the grave. For the suppression of fear, a special technique was invented, according to which the musicians were first filled with a foam rubber, and then the Earth so that there was an opportunity to move.
At the end of work on the roller, several film crew staff joined Sergey Bodrovau - the youngest in the expedition to the Carmadon Gorge, where they died, buried by the glacier.
The 15th anniversary of the group noted a grand show at the stage theater and the album "Frank Photos" - a collection of the best tracks for all the years of creativity. The song from Alma-Ata entered him, dedicated to the air crash of 1980. The plane in a minute after takeoff collapsed to Earth at the airport of Kazakhstan, as a result of which 166 people died - all passengers and 10 crew members.
Over time, the "foot drove!" She became a laureate of premiums given by the organizers of music events in France, Romania, MTV channel. Surprisingly, loved the Russian team producers of Spanish radio stations. By the time the team learned to sing in German and in English.
Twice the group participated in the national selection for Eurovision, but the jury never dares to send performers to Europe that are not shy in expressions. As if in confirmation of an extraordinary reputation, the musicians released a single "Mate Song", which a number of particularly bold editions called "x ***", as this word sounds on the plate of twilight times. The addition of steel 4 remixes and the "Applause" track in the form of splekov sounds.
Package, risk, surprise - it is in the style of "foot!", And the boundaries for the collective almost does not exist. Once during the festival, the group used a specific props - custom-made 4-meter childbearing man's organ, another time - an inflatable woman. Pokrovsky himself was not afraid to fulfill the song on horseback, galloping.
In the new century, the "foot drove!" Joined the film and television. The music of the group was used as a soundtrack to the "last hero" ("I am not the last hero"), "Fort Boyard" ("Prisons"), the picture of Evgenia Longgin "Time is money." Fulfilled in the film of Jican Faisiyev "Turkish Gambit" Song "We go to the East!" I won the "Kinonagrada MTV Russia 2006" award in the nomination "Best Soundtrack".
An important stage was the beginning of cooperation with the entrepreneur and the poet Mikhail Gutseriev. A businessman provided financial support in the shooting of clips "foot drove!".
Since 2012, the soloist of the group led a personal project in America. Max has become acquainted with the producer of Howard Benson, who worked with Adam Lambert and Motorhead. Interest in the singer showed Stephen Heyig, famous in the musical world of cooperation with Robbie Williams and Pet Shop Boys.
Dating helped and collective activities. Despite the deterioration of relations between Russia and the United States, in 2015, the "foot drove!" Gave a series of successful concerts in Atlanta, New York, Seattle and San Francisco.
In 2016, the fans were pleased with the release of the album "Eat my heart." The group arranged a presentation on board the yacht with the stage of the arrest of participants than a very shocked present.
April 2017 was marked by the premiere of the Single "Tuuda-here" on the Yandex.Music resource, May-release of a new album called "My Planet's continued". The frontman of the group decided to return to the style preached in the early years - ironic-reckless rock. The representation of the record was held in the fall of the same year in the metropolitan chaplub Green Concert.
2018 has become for the jubilee group. In honor of the event in the network, the display of a documentary film on a 30-year biography of the collective was started. Each series is a 15-minute version of one year of creative flour, tour, album records.
The grand festive concert of "foot drove!" The anniversary was held in the State Kremlin Palace, where the musicians managed to dilute the official atmosphere and raise the audience to their feet. In addition to participants in the show, the Russian Horn Orchestra and a group of Japanese drummers were involved.
Singles "Airplanes-Train" and "Fluffy Gnome" saw the light in 2019. At the same time, the team was invited to speak at the Life Shashlyk Festival, held simultaneously with a series of protest actions in Moscow. Increasingly agreed at first, the team changed its decision when the connection between events was understood.
Participants managed to post both statements on the network and receive a wave of negative twice in their address.
In honor of the 25th anniversary of the track "Haru Mamburu" was launched by a calender, in which different, including famous, people danced under the song. A new clip "Karamba Mamba" was born from the received rollers.
"Leave a foot!" now
Max Pokrovsky and his team now, as before, fount the ideas and implemented projects.
A bold step was the participation of the group at the "Partizan-Fest" concert, the purpose of which was the support of protesters of Belarusians. The event was broadcast on the channel "Rain", the tracks "Za ** Li!" Came first. And "silence of lambs."
In March 2021, a new album of the "Perfumery" group saw the light, which combined insane experiments and branded techniques of the team. The collection includes 11 tracks. The song "Queen" in the first weeks after the premiere fell into the "Charto dozen" of our radio.
On the occasion of the release of the disk "Leg reduced!" Dali concert in Mytishchi. The tour of Siberia Groups was moved to autumn.
Discography
- 1990 - "1: 0 in favor of girls"
- 1992 - "Caprises of mannequins"
- 1993 - "Haru Mamburu"
- 1995 - "Siberian Love"
- 1997 - "Happy, because pregnant: blue album"
- 1999 - "Happy, because pregnant: Green Album"
- 1999 - "Calla"
- 2000 - "Boxing"
- 2002 - "In the dark"
- 2004 - "The advertising place is surrendered!"
- 2005 - "We go to the east!"
- 2011 - "Back side of the leg"
- 2013 - Faberge Eggs
- 2014 - "Eat my heart"
- 2017 - "The continents of my planet"
- 2020 - "I WANT TO WILL!"
- 2021 - "Perfumery"
Clips
- "Haru Mamburu"
- Sundoman Baths
- "Liliputa love"
- "Wolves"
- "Doll"
- "Petrol"
- "Moscow - Shaverm"
- "Siberian Love"
- "Martian Waltz"
- "Games with fire"
- "Zander"
- "Selection"
- "Silence of the Lambs"
- "Wings"