Biography
The Russian group "Otto Dix" is named after the German Avant-garde artist, whose canvases were inspired by the creators of the musical team. The group calls the style of its compositions by electronic avant-garde, critics include Otto Dix to the direction of Darkweave. Gloomy Gothic music is combined with expressive lyrics written in Russian - for the soloist of the group it is important to convey to the listener the meaning of the poems, and not just the mood and rhythm.Compound
In addition to 2004, Michael Drau and Marie Slip under the common name Otto Dix, for the first time, together came to the scene in his native Khabarovsk with the songs "White ash" and "repentance". This concert is customary to consider the birth of the group. At the initial stage of finding his face in music, the founders worked with the guitarist, which soon left. At the end of the same year, the Commonwealth with the Youth Theater "Paradigm of Times" - the group pays a lot of time to setting the stage show.
The first three albums are recorded by the Michael Draw and Marie Slip duet. In 2007, the team was joined by a violinist Peter Voronov and went to the concert tour-presentation of the album "Atomic Winter". Cooperation has been launched until 2013. Drummer Paul Kristoferson began performing at concerts since 2012. Later to the team joined guitarist Igor Sydius.
Person, voice, the author of lyrics and staged a stage show from the date of the founding of "Otto Dix" and remains Michael Drau. In life outside the scene, Drara is called Mikhail Ruvimovich Sergeev. The future musician was born on February 7, 1981 in Khabarovsk, on education Linguist. In addition to poems, writes a fantastic prose.
Vocal Drau took up at 22, when I realized that the high voice would not change to a more courageous, and realized his uniqueness. Counterior - the highest of men's voices corresponds to female contrast. In the era of Baroque for the sake of opportunity to take high notes, opera singers were solved for castration, but Michael received this gift from nature and cost no victims.
The combination of countering, androgic appearance of the soloist and the original stage images has become a group business card. Music to the texts Drara writes the second unchanged member of the group - the composer, the arranger and keyboard player Marie Slip. He performs the role of producer.
Sergey Sergeevich Slobodchikov (Marie Slip) was born on December 26, 1980 in the Khabarovsk Territory. He graduated from the music school in the piano. Develops computer games and writes music for them. Compounds stories and draws. Under its own label, Dizzaster publishes music and books.
The arrangement of OTTO DIX compositions in academic style was engaged in Peter Voronov. The violinist and the composer of Voronov were born on June 17, 1979 in Leningrad. He graduated from the Red Diploma of the St. Petersburg Conservatory, in 1994 he became interested in electronic music, experiments in the field of modern violin sound. In 2013, released a solo album with compositions of his own essay. He is interested in photography.
The concert striker Paul Krasnitsky (Paul Kristoferson) was born on September 17, 1983 in Omsk. He graduated from the Omsk Music School named after Shebalin in the class of percussion instruments in 2005. From 2003 to 2009, he worked in the orchestra of the Omsk Academic Music Theater.
Also, the group includes guitarist Igor Pontilov, known under the Sydius pseudonym. The native of St. Petersburg graduated from the psychological and pedagogical faculty of the Herzen's PCPU, studying in the Mussorgsky's nobility in the class of electric guitar. Recorded Sidius solo albums and The Duck.
Music
Music uses sharp, stall melodies performed in minor tones. The team constantly experiments, not trying to put his creativity in a strict genre framework. The compositions of the "Otto Dix" team refer to the avant-garde, post-indistial, Dark-Embiente, Industrial-Roc, EMM and Gothic-Rock. The professionalism of the musicians is growing, the sound of each new album becomes more difficult and more interesting than the previous one.
Interestingly, some finds of musicians can not be repeated at a concert: So, in the song "Who like God" from the album Mortem Michael used the technique of a throat singing, so that his voice rang below the usual range. But you can only sing in such a technique quietly.
The topics of the songs are traditionally for will be injected horror: it is the fear of God ("Fire Heaven", "Iron Prut", "The Age of Christ"), and before the catastrophes of the future ("Nuclear Winter", "City", "Shadow Zone"), And before the revolt of cars.
The author of the texts and spofition is not refused on the topics of morality and bdsm ("Favorite German", "Round", "Slave", "Beast").
Inspired by the authors and the history of our world, and creativity. The song "Expressionism", "Eternity" and "Talenik" - Hans Christian Andersen is dedicated to the artist Otto Dicks. The image of Christ is opposed to the devil, the silent listener with wealth ("Give me water"). Myths and literary characters are woven in the works of Otto DIX into a single work of art. Music and text are complemented by dance and acting game.
The execution of each song at the concert is a separate monospect. The video telling of the clips tells the story of each song again. In the clip "Eternity", Kai and Gerd are in the enchanted space, then on the street of the modern city. Artists and stylists work on the characters. According to the established tradition of video clips, Otto Dix songs are filmed for money fans and with their active participation.
"Otto Dix" now
In January 2018, Otto Dix held presentations of the new Leviafan album in St. Petersburg and Moscow in the form of concerts and autograph sessions. Photos from events are posted on the official pages of the group in "Instagram" and "Facebook". In April, the Group will go to a concert tour of Siberia, from April 4 to 15, musicians will meet with fans in Tyumen, Omsk, Barnaul, Kemerovo, Abakan, Novosibirsk and Krasnoyarsk."Leviafan" can be downloaded on the Internet, and the Gravitator Records label will release it on the CD in October 2018. On March 12, the Sea song is not overflowed, which went to this album, ranked third in the rock chart "Russian Rock Battles", rising in a week From 39 (penultimate) place in the top three leaders. Now Otto Dix, together with fans, works on a clip to the song "Dark Waves".
Discography
- 2005 - "Ego"
- 2007 - "City"
- 2007 - "Nuclear Winter"
- 2007 - "Ego" (reprint)
- 2009 - Zone Shadows
- 2010 - "Wonderful Days"
- 2011 - "Ego" (reissue number 2)
- 2012 - "Utopia" (single)
- 2012 - "Mortem"
- 2014 - "Anima"
- 2015 - "Animus"
- 2017 - "Leviathan"
- 2019 - XV
Clips
- 2005 - "Ego"
- 2006 - "White ash"
- 2008 - "Metal Fatigue"
- 2009 - "Dream of Spring"
- 2011 - "Beast"
- 2014 - "Anima"
- 2014 - "Old Watches"
- 2015 - "Freaks"
- 2015 - "Give me water"
- 2016 - "Clay"
- 2016 - "Orpheus"
- 2017 - "Eternity"