Chronop

The group was formed on May 3, 1985, when five friends, regulars of the Gorky “heap” (the place where music lovers exchanged vinyl) - namely, Vadim Demidov, Kirill Kobrin, Alexander Tereshkin, Alexey Maximov and Alexey Kazimirov - decided to record a music album at home at the latter. Home Aquarium, an album played on three seven-ruble guitars, children’s handicrafts and recorders, appeared 23 days after the band’s birth. The reference point for the "chronops" of that time is considered to be Russian rock of St. Petersburg dressing. The first performance of "Chronop" in "electricity" took place in October 1986 at the I Gorky Rock Festival, the jury of which was chaired by Artem Troitsky . The set of "Chronop" was received ambiguously by the audience and organizers of the festival, the Komsomol functionaries were quick to declare the group disloyal, but in the end it received a prize "for the most controversial program." In the 1980s, Chronop participated in a number of iconic rock festivals, including in Podolsky (1987), Novosibirsk (1988), Kharkov ("Rock against Stalinism", 1989), as well as the action “Rock of Pure Water” (1990). In the same years, two albums were recorded - “Gray sheets” and “Stomp flies” (a collection of concert acoustic recordings). Chronop first appeared in a real studio only in 1989 - when the group participated in the Soviet-Danish project “Next Stop Rock'n'Roll”, the song “Bonfire” was recorded in the Danish mobile studio. The album Next Stop Rock'n'Roll was released in 1990. In the 1990s, Chronop gradually complicated the musical fabric of its songs. The first studio album "Here and Now" was recorded in the Cheboksary studio "Pro" in February 1990 (sound engineers Vladimir and Igor Lutoshkiny). The following year, "Here and Now" saw the light at the company "Melody" (editor Andrei Burlaka), this is the group's first vinyl. In the same Cheboksary, the album “Easier than Water” (1991) was recorded. The book by Alexander Kushnir “ 100 Magnetic Albums of Soviet Rock ” tells the story of its creation. In the mid-90s, another album, “Somewhere in Europe,” appeared.

In 1995, two “Chronop” songs “Liquid lover” and “Still Life” were recorded and released by Sergey “Chizh” Chigrakov Chizh & Co (album “About Love”), soon both songs in his performance became hits.

In 1999, Chronop tried to switch from art-rock tracks to trip-hop tracks, a fragment of the new program was shot and shown by the NNTV television channel (Music of the 21st Century). However, the group could not stand such a radical reform of the style and on January 6, 2000 broke up.

Nevertheless, the members of the group found the strength to reunite. The performance of “Chronop” in its “golden” line-up took place in the fall of 2004 - at the presentation of the book “Somewhere in Europe” by one of the founding fathers of the group Kirill Kobrin. And the real reunion happened at the end of 2005. At the same time, work began on the album "Liquid Lover". After the reunion, Chronop released 5 albums. “Chronop” mainly gives concerts in Nizhny Novgorod, although it made forays twice on festivals - on “Old New Rock” (2008) and on “10th anniversary of the music publishing house“ Geometry ”(2011).

The Lyrebird Season album was criticized warmly by critics. So in Rolling Stone magazine the album “earned” four stars out of five possible, and several music observers, in particular Denis Stupnikov, Anton Kovalsky and Sergey Mudrik, placed it in their final “top 10”.

At the beginning of 2013, Vadim Demidov, on the record label “Branch Exit”, released the collection “Acoustics The Best”, which includes acoustic versions of the best songs of “Chronop” of the late 2000s.

In April 2014, Chronop released the ninth studio album Seychaste in the music publishing house Geometry. One of the founding fathers of the group, Alexander Tereshkin, took over the work on it. Seychastche received many flattering reviews from critics, and in the Rolling Stone magazine the album "earned" 4 stars again. At the same time, the columnist of the magazine Andrei Bukharin noted that Chronop is one of the best Russian groups ^[1] . The composition of the group has changed - instead of Igor Shavyrov (bass) and Mikhail Kiselev (guitar), Alexey Sidorov (bass) and Andrey Kolesov (guitar, keyboards) appeared.

Toward the close of 2014, Vadim Demidov and Alexander Tereshkin, under the brand name “Chronop”, released the New Year’s single “Flexible People”, this song was composed in 1987 and sounded at the Podolsk festival. For the new edition, Demidov reworked the lyrics.

Since the summer of 2014, Chronop has shown no signs of life, however, in July 2016, the group gathered to perform at the anniversary festival “Pure Water Rock”, which took place on the main square of Nizhny Novgorod. The veterans хрон chronopes ’- Alexander Tereshkin, Vadim Demidov, Pavel Noskov, Andrey Malykh and the хрон chronopes’ who participated in the recording of the Seychastchye album –– Alexei Sidorov and Mikhail Kiselev, entered the stage. In September, work began on the new album "Chronop", the tenth in her discography. The sound producer of the album is Alex Repyev, who previously recorded five albums of the group.

December 9, 2016 "Chronop" in an expanded composition played at the 15th anniversary of the music publishing house "Geometry" ^[2] . Before the performance, the leader of the group Vadim Demidov told “ Smuggling ” that “after this festival Chronop does not plan to perform anymore” ^[2] .

In January 2017, “Chronop” published the song “You Want with Me” - the first single of the upcoming album, which will be the tenth in the group’s discography. The flute was played by Andrei Malykh, a member of the "golden" group. The sound producer again was Alex Repyev.

At first, on the Chronop’s blog, Vadim Demidov announced his desire to release a song every month in order to get a finished album at the end of the year. However, over the next year only seven singles were released, the song “When I Get Back” was recorded for the future tribute of Alexander Galich and the archived “Christmas” was rewritten for the collection of New Year and Christmas songs “Acoustic Christmas”, produced by Konstantin Arbenin .

The participants of various Chronop teams had a hand in the studio work: Vadim Demidov, Pavel Noskov, Alexander Tereshkin, Mikhail Kiselev, and musician friends: Alexei Ratsen , Dmitry Tokman, Ksenia Balashova, Mikhail Zelmanov, Egor Baranov.

In 2018, Chronop continued to work on new compositions. The greatest success fell on the song “Well, I was afraid in vain”, which was presented by the weekly newspaper Novaya Gazeta.

In April 2019, the jubilee 10th album Despair and Love was released at the Geometry music publishing house; it was welcomed by music critics. Vadim Ponomarev (Guru Ken) ^[3] calls the album a portrait of the era in watercolor, and Alexander Kutinov ^[4] - sounding Calvados, Andrei Bukharin ^[5] - an authentic, mature masterpiece, where everything is great: songs, poetry, intonation, this is the last sunset Russian rock leaving the horizon.

Composition 1985

• Vadim Demidov (vocals, guitar, songs)
• Kirill Kobrin (texts, ideology)
• Alexander Tereshkin (guitar, songs)
• Alexey Maximov (bass, songs)
• Alexey Kazimirov (keys, songs)

In 1986, Pavel Noskov (drums) joined the Chronop. In 1987, Sofia Serova (flute) joined the group, but at the end of 1989 she was replaced by Andrei Malykh.

Composition 1990

• Vadim Demidov (vocals, guitar, songs)
• Alexander Tereshkin (guitar, songs)
• Alexey Maximov (bass, songs)
• Pavel Noskov (drums)
• Andrey Malykh (flute)

Composition 2005 (reunion)

• Vadim Demidov (vocals, guitar, songs)
• Alexander Tereshkin (guitar)
• Alexey Maksimov (bass)
• Pavel Noskov (drums)
• Andrey Malykh (flute)

Alexander Tereshkin and Andrei Malykh left Chronop in 2006, Alexey Maksimov in 2007. In 2006-2009, Yuri Lisin (guitar), Alexander "Surgeon" Okhlopkov (guitar), Maxim Povedsky (violin) participated in the group.

2012 squad

• Vadim Demidov (vocals, guitar, songs)
• Pavel Noskov (drums)
• Igor Shavyrov (bass)
• Mikhail Kiselev (guitar)

Group composition 2014

• Vadim Demidov (vocals, guitar, songs)
• Pavel Noskov (drums)
• Alexey Sidorov (bass)
• Alexander Tereshkin (guitar)
• Mikhail Kiselev (guitar)
• Andrey Kolesov (guitar, keyboards)

Artemy Troitsky :

Alexander Kushnir :

Zakhar Prilepin :

Leonid Novikov :

Magnetic albums:

• 1985 - Home Aquarium
• 1986 - Gray sheets
• 1988 - The Stomp of Flies (Live)
• 1991 - Lighter than water
• 1995 - Somewhere in Europe

Vinyl Albums:

• 1990 - Here and now - the company " Melody ", 1991

Albums on CD:

• 1990 - Here and Now - Soyuz / Zakat Record Label, 2007
• 1991 - Lighter than Water - Soyuz / Zakat Record Label, 2008
• 2006 - Fluid lover - record label “Soyuz / Zakat”, 2007
• 2007 - Songs of the Bronze Age - record label “Soyuz / Zakat”, 2008 (with bonus DVD)
• 2009 - The Venice Album - Record Label Soyuz / Zakat, 2009
• 2010 - Twelve Letters to Heaven - Record Label Soyuz / Zakat, 2010
• 2012 - Lyrebird Season ^[6] - music publishing house "Geometry", 2012
• 2014 - Seychastye ^[7] - music publishing house "Geometry", 2014
• 2019 - Despair and Love ^{[8] [9] [10] [11] [12]} - "Geometry", 2019

2006 - “Better late” (“Debut”, side project with the participation of Vadim Demidov and Andrei Kolesov) - music publishing house “Geometry”, 2008

Igor "Old Pioneer" Druzhinin ^[13] :

2010 - Vadim Demidov “All women from the sun” (2CD) - label “Bomb-Peter”, 2010 muzmania ^[14] :

• The official site .
• History of the album “Easier than Water” from A. Kushnir’s book “100 Magnetic Albums of Soviet Rock”
• Sergey Mudrik: Band History in Albums
• Clip of Evgeny Kudelnikov on “Village Song”
• Recursions to the Chronop album - Lyrebird Season
• Review of "Seychast" from the portal "Intermedia" (4 stars out of five)
• Review of "Seychast" from the portal "Neformat"