The book by the leader of the group “Keeping the Foot” Maxim Pokrovsky “Children's drawings” (“Vagrius”, 2004), according to the author himself, is not intended for children. Although more and more fairy-tale characters inhabit it: dwarfs, gnomes, clowns, devils, dolls, witches and vampires, young animals and talking animals. In addition to familiar songs, the book includes poems, ditties, “about Kostik” jokes and drawings by Maxim Pokrovsky.
Here are examples of the work of a person who is known as a musician, but it turns out - "indulges" in a variety of forms of art.
TREASURES
*** I am dying of longing, of longing. I tear hairs and hairs on my priest. I tickle my stomach with my fingers, tickle, I don’t want to give an interview, I don’t want to.
*** A refrigerator fell from the sky, Touching the raven. Kashpirovsky, your alarm clock. Bring to the funeral!
“Kostya decided to become an artist and entered GITIS. After graduation, there was a distribution: someone was assigned to the Moscow Art Theater, someone to the Maly Theater. And Kostenka was assigned to Durov’s Corner. “Who will I play there?” - asks the graduate. “A monkey or a donkey - as the trainer decides.”
All the works in Max’s book complement each other, creating their own “parallel” world, frightening and alluring. Although the author himself believes otherwise:
There is no “parallel world”. In verses and drawings - the world in which we live, and the images of those people whom we meet every day on the streets, train stations and squares. Only all this is noticeably embellished.
- How did the drawings appear? Did you make them specifically for the release of the book to illustrate verses?
No, they appeared on their own. I just sat at the computer and painted portraits of different people. You know, in life there are very interesting types. For example, men who really want to seem serious. They walk in pointed boots (they are also called “little birds” and are not worn anywhere except in Russia), in their hands are handbags, “purses,” next to them are no less exotic women.
- Are your poems and songs somehow interconnected?
I have few poems. The book contains what I wrote in 10-15 years. From all this “heritage” I chose one poem from which I want to make a romance. In general, there are poems, but there are lyrics — and they are completely different: music is written on the texts, and the verses should simply remain poems.
- Who do you think is your reader?
I can’t imagine my reader, nor my listener, because I don’t do anything to order. Of course, when we come with our songs to radio stations, they help us understand which songs could be more in demand, but when I work, I don’t think that I will be moving to the radio.
Kostya is Vovochka’s brother, only Vovochka is evil, and even a nonsense, and Kostya is just a fool. Why is Kostik? It just seemed to me that name was the most expressive.
It just seems that everyone can write a ditty. In fact, it is very difficult to do short, witty, with a reasonable amount of “salt and pepper”. How did your ditties come about?
Appeared - and all. Among them, there are quite nasty. But there is no swearing. I wrote obscene ditties already after the book was preparing for release. It seems that I don’t have a mat in this book at all ... (Maxim says hesitantly, as if even apologizing. - Approx. Aut.) And so it turned out to be quite censored. Although ... I would not give it to children.
Maxim, your poems and songs are very figurative. And the drawings are no less expressive. I didn’t want to make a video clip for your own song?
No, I didn’t want to. I believe that everyone should do their own thing. At the same time, we, of course, always discuss our ideas with the video director, we advise.
- What are your impressions of participating in The Last Heroes?
There are many impressions left. Of course, there will remain photographs, and a song, and a clip ... When we were just about to participate in the first program, I remember Dima Pevtsov said: “There you will live a little, but your life!” And so it turned out.
“Did you miss your family away from home?”
I’m rarely at home at all, and therefore I don’t feel “boredom” in the traditional sense. I can’t imagine that I can sit down, support my cheek with my hand and ... get bored. Of course, I think about the house, about my relatives, it is important for me to know that everything is fine with them. In the negotiations on the continuation of the project, other players also said that they would like to receive news from home more often. I personally had enough “two-bit” information: everything is fine, which means that we play on.
- For someone, a house is a place where you can spend a couple of days before your next trip. Another - lovingly equips his family nest. What is your home for you?
Unfortunately, at home, as I said, I manage to stay rarely. But in general, a house is, first of all, a closed door. This is my world where outsiders are not allowed.
Larisa Suetenko
A press conference of the "Keep My Leg" group on the eve of the festivities associated with the 15th anniversary of the band (see MUSIC from 25 and 30.03 and 11.04.04) was held at the Estrada Theater on April 19.
The conversation with reporters took place in a more than informal atmosphere, which the leader of the “Legs” Maxim Pokrovsky strongly emphasized. At the theatrical stage, active work was underway to prepare a festive concert, namely the installation of scenery and sound adjustment. Therefore, the musicians (Maxim Pokrovsky, Maxim Likhachev, Victor Medvedev, Igor Lapukhin and Anton Yakomulsky) were sitting on the front of the stage, journalists in the hall, and the microphones were almost not involved in the conversation. After the formal announcement of the triple occasion for the gathering (the 15th anniversary of the collective, the release of the album "Frank Photos" and, finally, the publication by the Vagrius publishing house of Pokrovsky's book "Children's Drawings") Maxim suggested starting the conversation: "We just want to talk without any official moments and other things. " The musicians immediately noted that they were inherent in some “slight disorder that accompanies creativity,” since they did not heed the logic and requests from the management “not to put everything together” - that is, to separate these three informational events in time. However, Maksim Pokrovsky emphasized, in this case, “The Leg Downed” was done as they wanted. It should be noted that on April 20, in relation to the 15th anniversary of the collective, the date is somewhat arbitrary. “We don’t fix them at all,” said Pokrovsky, but Anton Yakomulsky recalled that there was still one exact date: “January 9, 1989 is the first audition of the band with the same name in the Moscow rock laboratory.” Such a memory aroused genuine admiration of colleagues.
Several questions were raised regarding the book "Children's Drawings". It turned out that the title of this work was given by one of Maxim’s favorite poems, and the content is divided into four parts: lyrics, verses not yet put on music (there were a lot of them, to Pokrovsky’s surprise), ditties (“they are almost without mat, but amazingly nasty ") and a series of jokes about Kostya (" It's like Little Johnny, but funnier "). The book is decorated with photographs and drawings, the latter belonging to the pen of Pokrovsky himself. Maxim even showed the audience the cover and illustrations of his own authorship, made on a computer in his spare time from his main activity. Currently, the circulation is in the printing house ("It’s drying badly!") And is waiting in the wings. As for the album "Frank photographs", here the musicians went somewhat contrary to the laws of show business. According to Pokrovsky, initially the record was really conceived as a banal collection of the best songs, especially since the requests to release such an album sounded from all sides, however, such a step seemed boring to Nogue, and the frank photographs included, along with hits, compositions, theoretically intended for the next license plate ("I'm not the last hero", for example).
Journalists have not disregarded the general theme of creativity "Keeping the Foot". So, the attention of television to the ensemble - and vice versa - has increased sharply over the past few years, Maxim Pokrovsky commented as follows: "We realized that television shows would be better only if we get there," but then, in a serious mood, he added, that only by participating in two major television projects: “Forte Boyard” and “The Last Hero” - he became convinced that in television art there is a place for creativity, kindness, and respect. To eternal questions, boiling down to the phrase: “Your inner feelings in connection with the anniversary”, Mr. Maxim Pokrovsky was helped to answer. Lapukhin and Yakomulsky. The musicians came to a consensus that to live a long biological life is much easier than to exist as a collective; as such, the group did not experience creative stagnation and is not going to; their music changes and develops over time, while maintaining a common core. Pokrovsky added to the stasis thesis that the concept of demand for the group is very relative: "The album" Boxing "became the most unclaimed from a commercial point of view - despite the fact that it sounds most to us and was recorded not at all during a creative lull."
Finally, about the upcoming concert Pokrovsky said that the performance will consist of two parts. In the first, a certain theatrical show is expected, in which the group will hide from the eyes of the audience, and in the second, the musicians will play their songs, guided more by "club" specifics: without any scenery, just standing in front of the audience.
Julia Kontorova, InterMedia