Komarov, Kirill Igorevich

Kirill Komarov was born on September 8, 1964 in Leningrad. After school, he entered the Oriental Department of Leningrad State University (Department of Turkic Philology). Komarov was engaged in translations of Turkish poetry, entered graduate school, but did not finish it. As a student, he began to compose poetry, and in 1984 his fellow practitioner Alexei Obraztsov introduced Cyril to the Presence group. Komarov was invited to the group and became its non-playing member. He wrote lyrics on the melody of guitarist Maxim Kuznetsov.

Soon, the "Presence" joined the Leningrad Rock Club and throughout 1985-1987 remained one of its leading groups. The hits of the “Presence” were the songs of Kuznetsov and Komarov “It is better to be dead than the second”, “Get out”, “My day”, and the “Autumn Blues” by the jury of the IV Rock Festival (1986) named among his best songs.

At the end of 1987, Komarov, dissatisfied with the way his ideas were realized, left the band and made his debut as an acoustic guitarist and singer. The most striking event of this period for Kirill Komarov was his participation in the 1st festival “ Rock Acoustics ” ( Cherepovets , January 1990 ). In the same year, the musician recorded his debut album "Island". This and the next two albums, “The Simple Thing” ( 1991 ) and “Acoustics” ( 1993 ), are among the earliest. Maxim Kuznetsov (guitar) and Yuri Shcherbakov (drums) from the Presence, bass guitarist Oleg Degtyarev , pianist Alexander Vidyakin , sound engineer Vadim Dess Sergeev took part in these recordings.

In 1994, Komarov selected ten songs from the material accumulated over the previous three years that sounded in different styles and compiled the album "Day from Wednesday to Thursday", published on cassettes. This album was a sign of Komarov’s return to electric sound. In the same year in December, Cyril organized his group "Honest Word". It included Maxim Kuznetsov and Oleg Degtyarev, as well as drummer Dmitry Evdomakha . The first composition of the group lasted several months and played a number of concerts. Komarov assembled a new composition, in which were invited guitarist Ruslan Isakov , bass player Vasily Lomagin and drummer Gennady Tuskov . They continued to play in clubs and recorded songs “In the Autumn Park” and “Little Lisa” at the Dobrolet studio (sound: Vadim “Dess” Sergeev ).

In the autumn and winter of 1997, Komarov’s next solo album, “Skydivers Through the Eyes of Birds,” which was officially released only four years later , was recorded. The musicians of “Honest Word”, as well as keyboard player Mikhail Ogorodov , singer Evgeny Dyatlov (“Aty-Baty”), sound engineer Vadim “Dess” Sergeev and others participated in his recording.

Cyril became a regular participant in the festival of the singing poets "Mighty Kuchka", which since 1999 has been regularly conducted by the musicians of the group " Winter Huts " Konstantin Arbenin and Alexander Peterson . At the same time, Kirill Komarov became a regular in the concert hall of the Leningrad Zoo .

Komarov performs not only solo, he collaborates with Mikhail Borzykin ( "TV" ) - they record Komarov’s song "Smoke". He also takes part in the ArBaKom project with Mikhail Bashakov and Konstantin Arbenin . They recorded Cyril’s song “We Will Never Die”, which was in rotation on “ Our Radio ”.

At the end of 1999, the Best Presents production center released on Komarov’s cassettes a new acoustic album, “Here I am,” including such songs as “The Blues Not Made by Me” and “Snow Is Going Up”. In 2001, the album "Skydivers through the eyes of birds" was published. The musician’s next work, “Fuel” ( 2002 ), was also purely acoustic.

The album "Angelology" was recorded during 2003 at several different studios. Following him, Komarov released the album “Sooner or later,” which alternates songs recorded in 1994 and 2004 .

In 2005, Komarov’s January concert at the Moscow club “ArtEria” was recorded and shot for publication on DVD , and an acoustic performance in July formed the basis for the album “Transbluz”. In addition, the musician compiled from the concert recordings of 1994 - 1996 . album "Experiments with live electricity" ^[1] . Later, Komarov’s first mp3 collection, which included fragments of the album “Day from Wednesday to Thursday”, all studio recordings from “Here I am” to “Transbluise”, as well as selected recordings of apartment concerts made in 1997-1998 and 2000-2003 years.

In 2005, the St. Petersburg publishing house "Helikon Plus" released a book by Kirill Komarov, "Shades of Green," which included lyrics from five major albums, poems, and the poem Peter. Walk ”and“ Letters to the Krasnodar friend ”.

A peculiar continuation of Transbluise was a joint project of Cyril Komarov and Vasily K. called “Ropes”, in which improvisation moved onto the stage, and the concerts became interactive: the audience can influence what is happening by sending notes.

In 2007, the album “Joy. Deadly. ” In July of the same year, the group "Cyril Komarov and Friends" first appeared on the stage, which in addition to Cyril included Anatoly Bagritsky ( button accordion , harmonica , harmonium, backing vocals ), Dmitry Fomichev (bass) and drummer Evgeny Guberman , who later lost place to Mikhail Pozdeev.

In 2008, the experimental album Sensense was released. In it, Komarov refused to use musical instruments: all their parts are reproduced in a voice that simultaneously pronounces several phrases, and they are superimposed on one another in different tones.

In 2008, Vasily K. and Intellectuals recorded a song by Kirill Komarov “I do not want to choose” and included it in the album “Give Yourself” .

In February 2009, the album “The Way of the Fool” was released, recorded by the group “Kirill Komarov and Friends” in November 2007 - June 2008. Only acoustic instruments sound there: acoustic guitar, button accordion, harmonica, harmonium, drums, acoustic bass. In June 2011, the group released the second album "Snake", which was recorded in St. Petersburg in 2010-2011. Now Kirill Komarov performs with concerts as solo as in the group “Kirill Komarov and Friends”.

• 1990 - Island
• 1991 - The Simple Thing
• 1993 - Acoustics
• 1994 - Day from Wednesday to Thursday
• 1997, published 2001 - Skydivers through the eyes of birds
• 1999 - Here I am
• 2002 - Fuel
• 2003 - Angelology
• 1994, 2004 - Sooner or later
• 2005 - Transbluz
• 2005 - Experiments with live electricity
• 2007 - Joy. Deadly
• 2008 - Sensense
• 2009 - The Way of the Fool
• 2011 - Snake
• 2013 - WHICH IS NOW
• 2016 - Thinking of You
• 2019 - Shine and Rustle

Other

• 2005 - the book "Shades of Green"
• 2006 - DVD (recording of a concert in Moscow, ArtEria concert hall, January 22, 2005)
• 2006 - Ropes (co-authored with Vasily K. )
• Entries from apartment owners 1997-1998
• Entries from apartment owners 2000-2003
• 2009 - DVD "Blues and ballads with and without guitar" of the project "Arbakom" (Arbenin - Bashakov - Komarov)
• 2009 - collection "Best Things"

• Encyclopedia of Andrei Burlaki
• Website of Kirill Komarov
• LiveJournal community