Sunset invitation

In 2003, Pugacheva released the album “ Live calmly, country! ", Gave a series of concerts, performances on television. During this period, she divorces Phillip Kirkorov and increasingly appears in public with Maxim Galkin. The big tour with the program “ We have arrived ” ends. For 2006-2007 under this program, Pugacheva gives more than 40 concerts in Russia and the countries of the former USSR. The final concert of the six-year tour takes place on September 27, 2007 in Sochi .

Since July 20, 2007 Pugacheva - artistic director of the FM radio station "Alla" in Moscow; she influences music policy, and also runs author programs: “Hello, Alla”, “Visiting Alla”, “Alla is looking for talents” ^[3] . After a while, the project will close.

After a breakdown in relations with Kirkorov, Anatoly Lopatin becomes the regular producer of Pugacheva, in collaboration with whom work is underway on the album. Since 1999, Pugacheva collaborated with him, in 2005 she selects him as the main music producer. Together they work on material for the album ^[4] . The songs were recorded at the studio “Lopatin Sound Lab”, and in one of them - “Here we are long” Lopatin became the author of the words. This album included 18 compositions, some songs were released for broadcast on the radio before release (“Out of Nowhere”, “We Live So Far” and others).

For the most part, the album consists of new, previously unpublished compositions (with the exception of the song “Without Me”). On the album, the singer worked with many famous Russian songwriters and producers - Maxim Fadeev , Konstantin Meladze , Anatoly Lopatin , and also continued to work with her long-time co-authors - Raymond Pauls , Igor Kruty and Lyubasha . The disc contains a duet of Pugacheva and her daughter, singer Kristina Orbakaite - the song “Again Blizzard” ^[5] , which became the soundtrack to the film “ Irony of Fate. Continuation ". The song “Good-bye” was written by Irina Sekacheva, who had previously worked on the debut album of Julia Savicheva and wrote the text for her first hit, “ High ”. The lyrics for the song “Again Snowstorm” were written by Jakhan Pollyeva , speechwriter of Boris Yeltsin, Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev. Radio versions of some of the released singles were recorded in duets with Philip Kirkorov (“It's Cold in the City”) and Maxim Galkin (“Love as a State”, “We Live So Far”), but Pugacheva sings alone on the album. Video clips were shot only for 2 songs - “Invitation to the Sunset” (directed by Alan Badoev ) and “Against a Blizzard”.

Televisions

On January 1, 2008, Pugacheva, along with Kristina Orbakaite, performed the song “Again Snowstorm” at the television festival “Song of the Year”. On April 16, 2013, Pugacheva was a guest on the nightly program “ Evening Urgant ”, where together with the group “Fruits” she performed the song “Out of Nowhere” ^[6] .

Dreams of Love Tour

In December 2008 , at the Song of the Year festival, Pugacheva announced that her concerts in Moscow would be held in April 2009 . In the capital, the singer has not given solo concerts since 1998 . At a large press conference on March 5, 2009 , Pugacheva noted that with these concerts she will open a farewell tour, after which she will complete her concert and touring activities ^[1] . The " Dreams of Love " tour in support of the album began on April 7, 2009 in Moscow , and ended on March 4, 2010 in Sofia ( Bulgaria ). It is symbolic that the singer’s concert activity ended where her fame once began - it was in Bulgaria in 1975 that Alla Pugacheva sang her famous “ Harlequin ”.

During the tour, the singer gave 37 concerts in 34 cities in 13 countries, traveled more than 62,000 kilometers, performed 888 songs, spending a total of 57 hours on the stage. The tour team consisted of 30 people, including 5 musicians, 6 backing vocalists, 2 sound engineers, a lighting director, an administrator and technical staff ^[7] . The team also included journalists from the Rossiya-1 TV channel and Alla radio station, who covered the tour in detail ^{[8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16]} .

Concerts were watched by several tens of millions of viewers of the Russia-1 TV channel ^[7] and more than 200,000 spectators in concert halls. Among them - a huge number of public and political figures from different countries, including: the spouse of the President of Russia Svetlana Medvedev ^[17] , Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko ^{[18] [19]} , Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to Ukraine Viktor Chernomyrdin ^{[8 ]} , President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev with his wife ^[20] , President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan ^[21] and many others. After the concerts, the Presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia awarded Pugachev with the Orders of Friendship ^[20] and St. Mesrop Mashtots ^[21], respectively.

March 5, 2009 at a press conference announces the completion of touring after the farewell tour " Dreams of Love ." This conference is broadcast live by the Russia 24 television channel, and in the evening of the same day changing its broadcasting schedule (an unprecedented case in the history of Russian TV: the channel has never changed the schedule due to a public event) shows the federal channel Russia-1 .

Sergey Sosedov from KM.ru wrote: “This album is an academy for a variety artist. 18 songs - and not one repeats the other, but at the same time everyone is in a certain “super-sundown” space. This is a kind of original pop suite. Only Alla can do this. Her next CD-creation can be enjoyed endlessly, discovering more and more nuances of voice, melodies, arrangements and, of course, latent meanings of simple and sometimes very deep verses ” ^[22] .

Leonid Greenberg for Depesha magazine noted that in the album “song by song smoothly flow one into another, telling the life story of the singer. Now, she turns to the vast blue sky, say, not melting, where is my love; she is in love, loses her head and walks around the edge in the song “Love as a State”; he won’t believe in this newfound happiness in “I believe-I don’t believe”, but he leaves and becomes “Cold in the city”, and it seems to be all for the best, because they cannot be together, how many times she saved him, but no more forces. Let it fly with one wing. Without her. “Sorry,” her love also dies, she no longer loves, is not jealous. The heart is stiff and it gives one answer to everyone: the time of dislike is now in this world. But she is grateful to fate for the fact that love was in her life, and now it's time to fly away ” ^[23] .

The album topped the Russian album chart for several weeks and sold over 1 week with a circulation of more than 50,000 copies in Russia. The album received the Golden Disc from the NFPF ^[2] . By 2009, over 300,000 copies of the album were sold in the Russian Federation, and over 150,000 copies in the CIS countries.

Singles

In total, 6 singles were released from the album.

The album was released in several versions: DVD digipack gift box (cardboard case, 2 postcards and the "Sunset Invitation" clip), DVD digipack slim gift box (without postcards and a clip) and in CD format. In the digital version, the album is not available, in the iTunes store it is also not.

• Sound Engineers:
  • Andrew "Rambo" - 5, 10, 11, 14, 16;
  • Anatoly Lopatin - 2-4, 7-9, 13, 15, 17;
  • Oleg Shaumarov - 12, 18.
• Arrangers:
  • Anatoly Lopatin - 3, 9, 13;
  • Andrey Kharchenko - 15;
  • Sergey Razumov - 7, 16;
  • Oleg Olenev - 5, 11, 14;
  • Oleg Shaumarov - 2, 10, 12, 17, 18.
• Backing vocals :
  • Natalya Sigaeva - 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13, 14, 16-18;
  • Anatoly Lopatin - 2, 4, 7-14, 16, 18.
• Guitarist :
  • Alexey Bulgakov - 5, 7, 11, 13, 14, 16, 18.
• Wind section:
  • Studio-Transit, director - Alexey Batychenko.