Kurylev band

In the second half of the 1990s, Vadim Kurylyov began to attempt to assemble a concert band to perform alternative rock in clubs. In 1997, the bass player Roman Nevelev was involved, but the matter did not go beyond rehearsals because of the constantly changing work plans of DDT ^[1] .

In August 1999, after the final tour with the program “ World Number Zero ”, Kurylyov and his colleagues Pavel Borisov and Nikita Zaitsev began preparing the material for their album. At first, Yekaterina Ket Piterskaya Kozlova (ex-Wine) was invited to the drums, but later she was replaced by Nikolai Pershin (Virtuosos of the Universe, Children , Doll, Pinocchio, NEP , Dangerous Neighbors "," Meantraitors "," Katyusha ".

The recording with the working title “Bad Dream” was supposed to begin in the fall of 1999 at the DDT rehearsal studio on Tambovskaya , but in September, however, in September, the DDT themselves occupied the studio with the album “ Snowstorm of August ”, and all parallel projects had to be postponed ^[2] .

Since December 1999, the group performed in St. Petersburg and Moscow ^[3] . According to Vadim, in 1999, at one of the first concerts of the “Kurylev band” in the club “Zoo” was attended by Yuri Morozov ^[4] . The surviving concert recording of The Kurylev Band (Zoo Club, 1999) can be heard on the collection Nikita Zaitsev: Aftertune, Disc 2 Rarities, in the songs Steppe Wolf, War for Love.

Starting from March 7, 2000, they called themselves “Kurylev Band” and made their debut at the Zoo Club, then at the Milk, Saigon and Faculty clubs.

In the spring of 2000, when August Blizzard was over, DDT had to leave the place on Tambovskaya. The equipment was dismantled, multichannel recordings of Kurylyov’s songs on the computer were erased, and several draft versions of three or four songs remained ^[5] .

Kurylyov with his group appeared on the club scene of St. Petersburg at that time not so often. This is explained by the fact that two project participants (Vadim himself and bassist Pavel Borisov) were permanent musicians at DDT, and tours and rehearsals left almost no time for parallel projects. “Kurylyov-band” had the character of session cooperation, and gathered exclusively when it was possible.

At that time there was an irreparable loss - the musician of the band Nikita Zaitsev died on August 23, 2000 . Half of the songs in the upcoming album were planned with his participation. But he did not live to see the record. In the fall, DDT drove into the premises of the new studio, installation of equipment began, which lasted until February. Finally, in April – May 2001, Kurylyov, Borisov, and Pershin, with the participation of Igor Dotsenko , rewrote the entire album, called “ Wait for Godot .” The sound engineer was Alexander Brovko ^[2] . The quality left much to be desired, since the six-month-long relocation could not but affect the technical support. The author refused to postpone the recording until the moment when the new equipment is bought.

At a concert in the spring of 2001 at the Zoo, I was intrigued by the comic song Uncle Misha, dedicated to the 60th birthday of Mikhail Chernov . Then the “Kurylev Band” appeared in the Leningrad City Hall at the Pushkinskaya 10 event, and again the city received responses in the positive emotions of the people — heartfelt, thoughtful, giving rise. But there was a lull. The whole business consisted of Vadim's main employment - “DDT”, touring until the end of December 2001 ^[6] .

In 2001, Kurylev asked Shevchuk about the opportunity to speak with his project on the “ Invasion ”, when the leader of the DDT assembled the first so-called “St. Petersburg landing force”, but was refused.

It so happened that the active concert activity of DDT did not allow holding concerts of the “parallel” project, and, accordingly, they rarely saw Nikolai Pershin. He returned after a long forced break only to shoot a video for the song “Harakiri” in early 2002 (directed by Oleg Flyangolts ), where he starred in the role of Igor Dotsenko. This was the last time that the Kurylyov-Borisov-Pershin squad gathered together ^[7] .

In August 2002, he left DDT and was thus able to concentrate entirely on his own project. In January 2003, Kurylyov began rehearsing with an old-new trio in which Pavel Borisov and Mikhail Nefyodov, who later left Alice , played with him. The group gave several concerts, including in Moscow and Yaroslavl , but in May 2003 Borisov went on tour with DDT ^[2] .

Soon, Pavel Vovk (“Android”, “Forester’s Cabriolet”) was invited to the Absinthe studio, where Kurylyov Band was rehearsing then, and the group returned to the stage again, and in June began work on the album “ Equilibrium ” and changed its name on the Equilibrium Band.

Having stabilized the composition, the group began to perform a lot. In May 2004, the group starred in the Live Sound television program on St. Petersburg television, and in June took part in the fourth Open Windows festival. In September, they began work on the album Ingermanlandia ^[2] .

On November 18, 2004, Kurylyov accepted Dmitry Kovalev into the group as the second guitarist and changed his name to Electric Partisans ^{[8] [2]} .

• Official site of Vadim Kurylyov
• Official site of the Electric Partisans group