What is the name of the lead singer of the group Sukhi. Group "Sukhiye": Music becomes the main thing in life

Soloist Nastya Palchikova spoke about Valera Todorovsky, about music from the listener’s perspective and feelings.

They managed to play concerts in Chicago, Boston and New York. Recording albums in Tbilisi, the Sukhie group performs with enviable regularity within the Garden Ring, their catchy songs about people and actions, about love and its derivatives, about existence in a big city and dreams about something more.

Hello guys! I would like to immediately know why “Dry”? Where did this name come from? Yes, this is not the first time you have been asked this question, but it is interesting to hear it from you again. Maybe you have some kind of story invented for such cases?

There is no made-up story, there is a real one. Actually, I say the same thing every time. It was the very first concert of the group. In some basement on the outskirts of Moscow. We prepared seven songs, and probably didn’t know what to call it yet. Two hours before the concert, we were still discussing different names of the group with the musicians. And then there was a sound check. And I was bored of constantly repeating “one-one” into the microphone in order to fine-tune my voice. The microphone there, I must say, was broken down, and in general everything was broken down. And I had to repeat for a very long time on the microphone - “one-one”, “one-one”. I got tired of it and started saying other words that fit the frequency spectrum. “Devils”, “sausage” all sorts. And then she began to repeat - “dry”, “dry”, “dry”. But you have to understand that this, of course, was not the Artist Concert Hall club, where we are giving a concert in November. It was an old basement where the audience drank beer during sound check and shouted back and forth to the musicians on stage. And we sang something during the check, which the audience liked. So while other groups were performing before us, people in the hall were shouting - “Well, where are these dry ones? Hey, dry people, come out already!”

So we went on stage as Sukhy... Dry. I like this word. I like the sound of it.

And where, exactly, did it all start?

Because my pregnant mother listened to jazz and Vysotsky records too often. Perhaps from this.

What audience is your music aimed at: what does the listener for whom you write your compositions look like?

I think these are, first of all, sensual people. I think this is how people feel.

Nastya, I know that you also write scripts for films. Is it easy to combine one with the other?

I don't combine. I just write scripts and songs. I play with a group. I don’t think so—should I combine it or not. I just live like this, I live. Quite fun.

Does it happen that working on a script inspires the creation of a song or vice versa?

There was only one time when the script inspired a song. But it's funny that that one script was never filmed and the song was never performed on stage until now. Although, by the way, maybe we can do it for the next concert?

What are your plans for the future? Maybe you can tell our readers a secret “for such a small company”?

The plans are a bit too numeric. Point one, point two. The concert directors and producers have the plans. We still think in songs and sound. For now, we are finishing our album, which is called “New”, and we will present it with three concerts - in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Saratov. We're jumping into the studio, making new songs. We just play all sorts of riffs.

Will we soon see the work of the talented screenwriter Nastya Palchikova on television or in cinemas?

Valera Todorovsky is currently launching with my script “Bolshoy”, but it will not be released soon, cinema is a long process. Soon there will be a film by Vladimir Mirzoev “Her Name was Mumu” ​​- also based on my script, but you won’t see it in cinemas, only at festivals - there is too much forbidden in this film. We are also currently preparing several series. And I’m thinking about one full-length film, but filmmakers are superstitious, so I won’t tell anything yet.

What makes your group stand out from others? Why you?

We share, people take. Do you know what songs mean to me? — not as a musician, but as a simple listener? For example, every time I break up with a man, I lie on the floor in pain and snot and play some song on repeat. Many years ago it was The soldier of fortune, then somehow - “Sounds” by Arbenina, of course, there were the Beatles with Because, Portishead, then there was Adele with her Lovesong, then there were Ordinary things Lukas Graham.. and so on. It seems to me that songs are for that. For the state, for the emotions. This is how I listen and this is how I write.

What music inspires you? What songs do you listen to most often?

As a musician, I listen to an unreal amount of stuff. You can be inspired by the bass riff in a song by an unknown African band that you accidentally heard from someone else’s player on the subway. Or you can be inspired by a cool sound from Ezra. I've been listening to Anushka a lot lately.

Who would you like to work with? Do you have anyone in mind among the Russian performers? Maybe one of the foreign musicians?

Well, personally, as usual, I would like to sing a duet with Paul McCartney. He and I just both have quiet voices, this is my dream since my youth, and my boys have a whole list of musicians with whom they want to play on the same stage.

On November 21st you will have a concert at the Artist Concert Hall club. Tell me, will there be any surprises?

They will. But that’s why they’re surprises, so you don’t know about them in advance.

The group "DRY" became a guest of the "Second Shift" program on "Our Radio". The leader of the group, Anastasia Palchikova, the author of the music and lyrics, told NSN readers about how she became a professional cellist, why the director’s profession seemed “terrible” to her, about the history of the name of the group “Sukhiye,” and which team she supports in domestic football. ..

-You own all the words, music and arrangements of all the songs, right?

Well, arrangements are, of course, a strong word. Music and lyrics - yes, but we do the arrangements all together. We are now working with the arrangers, and with the guys in the group.

You studied at the philology department, at VGIK, and at the Conservatory. What is most important in your life – music or active directorial work?

Of these, I only graduated from VGIK, and did not take my diploma. And so, one helps the other. I can't determine what's important. First one thing or the other comes to the fore. Such a salvation. In fact, I think it’s hard to do just one thing. You can go crazy...

- Was this kind of multitasking clear even in adolescence?

Since childhood, in fact. It depends on the person. Of course, there are always difficulties, and “not going crazy” is always a priority.

-What happened at the beginning? Melodies or script ideas?

The melodies came first. Because I went to study cello at a music school. I really wanted it, I kept pulling my parents’ hands and asking them to give it to me. In general, I wanted to go to the violin... But it seems to me that no cellists came specifically to the cello. This is always some kind of tragic and dramatic story. We have a keyboard player, for example, Artyom Khamzin, also a former cellist. He actually thought that the cello was a harp. And when he said that he wanted to play the cello, he was sure that they would now give him this huge thing with strings. And suddenly I saw some little thing with four strings... About the same thing, I really wanted to play the violin, but while I was pulling my parents’ hands, I was already nine years old, and they took me to a music school when it was too late for the violin . And since the stretch on the fingers was good, they told me: “You’re wearing a cello!” I have never regretted it. I was bored playing all sorts of exercises on the cello, and I started composing songs and melodies myself.

-When did you realize that this needed to be published?

In fact, it seems to me that the realization has not yet come (laughs). It’s just that at some point it turned out that we were sitting in the kitchen and, despite the fact that I studied at VGIK, I had many musician friends. And including the person with whom we started the group together. We were sitting in the kitchen, the guys were listening to something and said: “Let's play!” I say: “What are you talking about?!” But somehow everything went by itself. At some point I realized that we were going on tour in America from Chicago to Boston...

-Were there people who dissuaded you?

Certainly! But I must say that the family never dissuaded me. My mother is great in this regard. I had a lot of crap in my life that I did, and my mom never talked me out of anything. She took any adventure with an absolute poker face. And when I said: “I’ll go to VGIK,” “Okay, you’ll go.” But there were people who didn’t believe it and said that the time of groups was over.

What can you say about your directorial activities? Talent - does it somehow break through, or were there people who specifically helped you find such a place?

You know, this is from the series that many people tell. Like, “I didn’t intend to at all and came with a friend to stand. And then suddenly – hop!” I actually just fell in love and left for Moscow and went to VGIK. Don't know. I wrote stories and didn't like movies. In fact? I watched it very little, I didn’t have a TV, and everyone laughed when I said that I was going to VGIK. Because I saw two of Tarkovsky’s films, and that’s it. I am an absolutely literary-centric person in this sense. But somehow I did, and I immediately fell in love with my master Natalya Borisovna Ryazantseva. We had a workshop of thirteen people. It was easy to do, it all started very gracefully, and then the difficulties began. In general, a screenwriter is a very terrible profession. Very difficult. But this is just some absolutely painful love of mine with lyrics. It's better not to become a screenwriter.

-Why is the group called “DRY”?

In fact, just when we were playing a sound check, and I was adjusting my voice, I got tired of constantly saying the same thing, and I began to repeat the word “dry”. And we started talking like that at one concert, and the audience picked it up. Like, “where are these dry ones”? And they became “DRY”.

- What literature is especially close to you?

I can answer this question very calmly and say that my favorite writer is Thomas Mann.

-Who do the musicians themselves listen to? What did you listen to when you started writing your songs, and what do you listen to now?

In fact, we listen to everything. Because musicians listen to music in a special way. Even when they turn on background music in a cafe, at some point you realize that the background music becomes the main one, and the conversation being held at the table becomes the background. You start listening and thinking, “Oh, cool bass line,” or “cool key sound.” In general, my parents listened to classics, jazz and Vysotsky. So that's where it all started. By the way, one of my significant ones is a classical musician, composer, violist. And he, when we were discussing classical music, once told me: “No, why, I also like to listen to all sorts of pop music: Zemfira, Rachmaninov, for example” (laughs).

-And if we talk about Russian groups?

I like the group "Resurrection". And on my playlist there are the Portishead group and the Resurrection group in a row.

- How was the American tour 2012? And anyway, how did they suddenly start?

We've already toured twice. And, in fact, somehow suddenly. We only have one English song and we rarely play it. The first time we went was when I was called. I was just performing somewhere in Romania and an American writer accidentally heard me and invited me to speak. We performed acoustically. We came with two guitars, drove around California and played in New York. In New York, we met and became friends with journalist Tanya Rhodes, and she and her husband organized our second tour with the group. There were three cities - Chicago, New York and Boston. And everything was already like an adult there. When we went for the first time, there were a lot of English-speaking people. I had to conduct the concert in two languages. And the Americans were the first to come and buy discs. The second time the crowd was overwhelmingly immigrant. It is very different from English. I still have very conflicting feelings from the immigrant crowd.

-What about the record?

We have one album now. The very first one, which is in Dodo and Jabberwocky stores, and we also sell it at concerts. In general, we are now recording another album in Tbilisi. And I think that at a big concert in the fall we will present the EP for sure, and by the New Year it will all be released. There are awesome studios in Tbilisi, "Bravo Records". We actually came there with a solo album. We performed at a big charity concert together with a Georgian group. And we were offered to record one song in the studio at the same time. I imagined a smoky basement where an old Georgian sat, twisting something on his crooked finger... And suddenly, when we entered, it turned out that this was a huge stuffed studio, and there was an excellent sound engineer. But it seems to me that they are too lazy for sound production. They even have a snack between recordings with white tablecloths, wine and meat.

-Can we hope for a tour?

Yes, one can hope. We are now discussing that we will apparently have a Russian tour in the spring. There are no details yet, but we always have a poster on our website where we update everything. All the information, I think, will be “hanging” there long before the tour.

Your performance at NASHESHEDIE will not be your first experience at the festival?

No, we performed last year. To be honest, I don’t like festivals because the “hodgepodge” there is crazy and you can’t really adjust the sound... But I liked it, oddly enough. Once we were happily driving there, and planes were flying in front of us. Unfortunately, we didn’t have time to listen to anyone there. We just performed, and after our performance there was a rearrangement on the main stage.

-Are you watching the World Cup?

I look. I used to be a hell of a fan, I watched a lot of football.

-Who are you rooting for?

For Zenit. By the way, I can tell you why. I was just in St. Petersburg, Zenit won the match, and I was so struck by the unity of the fans who went out into the street and jumped on cars, and somehow it was not destructive, but warm. After that I started watching games and I just loved it. At that moment, Zenit was doing very well, and I liked them the most. And Vova, by the way, is a former professional football player. He was a goalkeeper, and he will tell you better.