Biography
Sansara is a Russian group from Yekaterinburg, performing music in the genre of indie rock. Soloist Alexander Gagarin believes that a modern musician should be able to draw posters, mount video, edit audio and engage in copywriting. This allows you to calculate only on yourself and not depend on the policies of the labels and radio stations.The history of creation and composition
A key figure in the history of the creation of Sansary is considered the drummer Alexander Kucherov, in her apartment in 1997 the first rehearsals were held. In fact, none of the participants in the initial composition knew how to play, the guys have learned everything in the process.
"Fishka" the team became vocalist Alexander Gagarin (real last name - Lebedev), which is terribly killed, so the lyrics from the first listening was impossible to understand. In childhood, he suffered Otitis, I did not hear anything up to 6 years, hence the speech defects. Colleagues remembered that when meeting a musician could not disassemble a word. When the rumor recovered, his consciousness turned the songs of Yesterday of the Bitles group and "Dark Night" Mark Bernes, "the boy felt the desire to compose the same wonderful things. The soloist graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy of the Ural Federal University, where he studied ethics, aesthetics, theory and history of culture.
Music
In 2001, the debut album of the group "All Summary" was released. Earlier, Gagarin insistently asked the Council of Vladimir Shahrin, which songs to record, and he unexpectedly offered his help in working on a record. But Alexander, for his shame, learned about the existence of "TeaF" only in 1998.Throughout its musical career, Sansara experimented: they played a romantic electroopop with synthesizers and pipes, then minimalist post-punk, the guys wrote songs in English, for example "Yulia." In 2008, the discography team was replenished with the album "Fires", based on the texts of the poet and the Literature Teacher Sergei Danilov about dump trucks, hearts and the new year. The author read them out loud, and in the background they sounded a quiet vocalization of Gagarin.
In 2010, there was a fracture in the history of the group: the soloist broke up with the musicians, with whom he played 12 years, the cause of decay was personal and domestic differences. Gagarin did not cancel concerts and called on tour participants of the team Mars Needs Lovers, in such a composition of Sansara existed for 2 years.
In 2012, the album "Needle" was released with the song "Thunder", the clip on it became part of the project # Netoche. It was a musical and storming series telling about the problems of the modern world.
In 2013, the guys offered fans to sponsor the recording of the collection of the best songs of the team, which was called the "Best Album". As bonuses, fans gave pictures written by Gagarin, integration in the wocampling and the like. At the request of Donators, the release was released on vinyl. On August 22, 2015, Sansara spoke at the MegaFonlife festival along with the "Nastya", "Chicherina", "Single Hallucinations" and The Matrixx.
In 2017, Gagarin presented a music play "Pioneer" in Yekaterinburg and Moscow. In it, the vocalist said that people are the discovers of themselves in different life situations, they must respond to challenges of fate and therefore inevitably change. Help in creating a production leader of the Georgian team MgzavRei Gigi Grandmazishvili and Ilya Lagutenko. The latter, by the way, was offered Alexander to become a concert director of Mumiy Troll Music Bar on Tverskaya.
"Sansara" now
On June 18, 2021, Sansara was going to perform at the festival "Wild Mint" and to fulfill songs of 20 years ago. On the holiday of music was planned to let only vaccinated or croppeded coronavirus, but the event was abolished anyway, what the ensemble participants learned 12 hours before the discovery.
On June 29, the group released on the official website a new video for the song "We will be better" on behalf of the Creative Agency "Sunrise" dedicated to the issues of LGBT. For the first time, the track was released in 2018, he talked about how to part with a partner without hate and be ready to live on. This time the text was interpreted in the sense of same-sex relationships, which was promoted by the video order created by Andrei Gavris director.
On July 1, 2021, Alexander Gagarin's acoustic concert was held at the Gemstone Bar. In addition to old hits, compositions were presented with a non-revealed album "Recreation Station".
Discography
- 2001 - "Mossibin"
- 2003 - "No breathing"
- 2004 - "St. John's wort"
- 2004 - Icebergs and Rainbow
- 2007 - "Yu La"
- 2008 - "Fires"
- 2009 - "69"
- 2011 - "Sansara"
- 2012 - "Needle"
- 2016 - "Swallow"
- 2019 - "We will become better"
Clips
- 2011 - "Failure. Echo gong.
- 2013 - "" Clouds "
- 2013 - "Loving eyes
- 2014 - "Thunder
- 2016 - "By the fall
- 2017 - "Why are you dancing so little?
- 2017 - "Become a bird
- 2018 - "Randevo
- 2019 - "Miami
- 2021 - "Light (oh how I want)
- 2021 - "We will be better"