Sergei Letov Sergei Letov sneers at the western culture. Poland, 1988 In pre-perestroika times, I happened to visit the SOLO DUO TRIO festival in Krakow. I recall that the Poles, when hearing Russian language, immediately asked to sell them Soviet rubles at a very high exchange rate as compared with the official rate. Arkady Kirichenko […]
Sergey Letov It was year 1980 when I heard Vladimir Resitskiy for the first time. His group gave a concert in one of the Moscow newly-built halls, I think, it was the Olympic Village concert hall. It was the first new jazz group live concert that I heard then (before that I only had disk […]
Sergey Letov Some apocryphal tales claim that history of new improvisatory music in Russia began in the 60’s. Before I started performing, I heard from Boris Labkovsky, a very versatile coeval of mine, that there was a Moscow musician Victor Lukin, who invented such free improvisatory music and performed it. Later, drummer Mikhail Zhukov, who […]
There was a time when we studied algebras in the Novosibirsk Boarding School of Mathematics and Physics. I remember learning the attributes of transitivity, reflexivity, symmetry… The teacher gave a funny example to explain the anti-symmetry in plain terms: A=>B does not mean that B=>A, and if you replace “=>” by the words “love” or […]
