Evgeny Grinko Biography

He prefers the forest in the Moscow streets to walk along the noisy Moscow streets, and the buzz of voices and cars-a crunch of branches or two under his feet. But if the composer can walk at home calmly, then in Turkey - it just happened - neither along the seashore, nor in the city without meetings with fans, he can’t go: there is the name of Yevgeny Grinko synonymously filled to the limit for many thousands of concert halls and bouts of fan tenderness.

As it happened, the composer himself does not know, but almost eleven years ago, when in December he posted a video on his composition “Waltz” in YouTube, he was found by folk Turkish glory. I found it, but since then I have not let go. And although touring tours have long been for Evgeny Grinko and his chamber ensemble with the usual business, he continues to quietly observe reality and its signs, preferring the silence of any loudness.

Having met with one autumn day, we discussed the new album “Orange Marmalade” and marmalade slices from Soviet childhood, and also talked about the subjectivity of the artist’s perception, the difference in mentality and the lack of musical love. You had an album at the end of last week, so you want to start with the question just about it, but slightly detached. It seems to you that the artist today should understand the YouTube, Instagram algorithms and be able to convey his work to the audience?

Or should only work, and someone else should think about everything else? Well, in the ideal world, of course, someone else thinks about it, and the artist is doing his job. And in reality? In reality, you have to understand. It also depends on what your internal task is as an artist. Some do not need it or they just do not want to use these tools. If we talk about me, I use it, I sit and think, try to put into practice.

Advertising on RBC RBC. They are united by a jam bank - in the sense of the name "Orange Marmalade". Why suddenly orange jam? There are several ways to work with the album and its name. One-when you immediately have an idea and you create something from this idea. Another-when you collect something whole of different parts, sketches and then give this shape to this.

In our case, it was just like that. So when the album was going, it was necessary to give him a form. I then read Alice in Wonderland in English. She, when she fell into a hole, flew and saw different objects around, including the regiment on which the bank with Marmelad stood. And for some reason I stopped at him. In my own memories, these were rather lemon slices from the Soviet past, where the aluminum bank and in it marmalade slices.

In English, this, of course, is just a bank with orange jam, and I have lemon slices in my head, and each such slice is a composition. The cover also involves interpretations. One of the cups overturned, the others are filled, some are either floor or half -empty. Do you like metaphors? For me, this album is like a book. I like how they are suitable for the design of books, when often the cover does not illustrate the content directly, but simply transfers the atmosphere or makes some references to the plot.

That's exactly what we strove for this, our cover does not tell what is inside, but refers to this. I have no clear idea of ​​whether this glass is empty, is it full, but I like that there are many places for interpretations. Such art as the design of the album is quite abstract and gives a bunch of places for imagination, and for sensations, and for associations. Roughly speaking, the deeper you are, the deeper the art.

Had to be patient? How do you even perceive the need to wait, wait in the context of creativity? I think I'm very late. Usually I write compositions, after which some draft is formed, I put it off, put it off, put it off. These sketches can lie down for several years, and then I take them out of the table and begin to collect them in the album. That is, before we went to write them down, they simply lay a certain amount of time.

And what do you mean when you say that you are late? What needs to be returned to yourself five years ago? Yes, it seems to me that I am late with myself, for myself, because these compositions are already quite old, that is, now I will show what was five years ago. It was not that it was in my head in one way, but now-differently, but this is the stage of the creative process in which I was once.

And I begin in such cases to constantly doubt, to think that you can better. Love to reflect, it turns out? But I try to restrain myself, tell myself that there is a game and there are rules that they need to follow and the green light is also necessary. Creatively, of course, I often just want to release the inner stream to the wild, let it go, as it was once, ten years ago, when it was easy, for example, to lay out the compositions in YouTube or somewhere else.

But even now it is possible. On the contrary, there were only more services and opportunities for this, isn't it?But then you, it turns out, will use only this one tool, that is, you will have a creative stream, but there will be no marketing tools and everything else. Then, ten years ago, I did not even know about them that they were in this form. By the way about the time.

How are your relations with him are being built? I noticed that it is terribly accelerating. I once read two studies about accelerating time or slowing down depending on our age, as we perceive it, polls by young people who were asked to be called when the interval of ten seconds and the elderly people pass, and they called different values-for young people it is more slowly, and for the elderly much faster, according to their own perception.

I am comfortable in the present. It is upset that it really seems as if time is too fast. Yesterday we rehearsed dancing for the new video, and the technique of dancers, their plastic prompted that as if the composition should be more modern, and it is a little vintage. And I silently reproached myself for the fact that it is so incompetent that it would be more interesting with more modern.

Although this is not about time, but again about reflection. I sometimes envy extroverts, I think: how good if something did not work out, they always have external circumstances. Do you think you need to do something, fight? Or are doubts a logical and inevitable part of the creative process that torments everyone, but at the same time helping everyone? Well, you need to fight only if ...

I had an example - I spent a month, trying to make a recording as - it seemed to me - it would be right. At some point, I look at the calendar and understand that I have been doing this for several weeks from morning to evening. Then I sat down, thought and realized that I just needed to rewrite the composition on another tool, with a different recording method, rewrote - and everything immediately agreed.

It turns out that I spent a month before, just going in the wrong direction, and this could have been avoided if I just crouched, thought and made another decision. Everything is good in moderation. It is best to sit down and reflect, I don’t know, maybe throw some plan. I have friends who can make a composition for two years, trying to improve it, then send me and say: “Look, I did for two years.” You listen to her and think: “And what did you do there for two years?

That is, everything should be somehow in moderation: a feeling of beautiful and fears that you are a bad author. It is necessary to somehow observe the balance so that one does not interfere with the other. In principle, in all in life, a balance must be observed. In coffee, for example, or in sweet. You can release the album and immediately find out what listeners think of it.

Are you watching this? Or release and release? Most often - released, released, and it almost ceases to exist for me. It seems to me that almost everyone has it. The most interesting process is creation. You think that now you will do something grandiose, you are going to some goal, imagine it to yourself. And then once - it has already happened, you already have it, but what to do about it is not clear.

In this regard, I am surprised how the most famous composition - “Waltz” still continues to “work”. She is ten years old, she still causes people a violent reaction, and for me, roughly speaking, she becomes a set of notes. Maybe due to the fact that I played a little. You played in the sense of perceiving the composition as your own hit that you managed to tire? No, I'm not tired.

They came, listened, and that’s all, you can leave. I don’t feel sorry for at all, I can play at least all the performance, although it will be bored for me. If people are so good, I am pleased to make them pleasant. Have you ever wondered why exactly the Waltz turned out to be so successful? Tried to repeat this success in other compositions? Well, before I had some expectations, but now I realized that there was no point in waiting for something.

Naturally, each time you hope that you can do something interesting, but there should still be a balance between what you want to do yourself and what the listener will like.