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This was stated by the band's frontman Sergei Bobunets. A video message from the leader of “Semantic Hallucinations” to fans appeared on the popular video hosting site YouTube. The artist noted that the group is not planning a farewell tour, but is preparing a large concert trip with the “Our Space” program in honor of the 55th anniversary of the first manned flight into space. Sergei Bobunets announced, oddly enough, its name as the reason for the collapse of the team.

Sergei Bobunets, nicknamed Buba, is known as the lead singer of a rock band. The musician, producer and restaurateur is now engaged in solo work, living in his native Yekaterinburg.

Childhood and youth

Sergei Bobunets was born in Nizhny Tagil on September 1, 1973. His father was a military man, so after some time the family moved to Sverdlovsk, which today is called Yekaterinburg. Music has fascinated Sergei since childhood. He began taking his first steps in a creative direction at the age of 11. As a teenager I tried to play the domra, keyboards and guitar.

While studying bass guitar at a music school, the future musician did not forget about other interests. He also took fencing classes, tried his hand at sailing and journalism, and even took part in a ballroom dancing club.

Thinking about the future, the young man planned to become a military man and continue the family tradition, but his passion for music turned out to be stronger. Back in his school years, Bobunets gathered friends into the musical group “Ajax”. Later, as a worker at a bearing factory, Sergei participated in the activities of a musical group founded by his friend.

Sergey Bobunets graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of the Ural State University. He managed to work as a radio presenter in Yekaterinburg and as a journalist for a local newspaper. But in the end, his biography turned out to be connected with another area. In 1989, Bobunets created the group “Meaning Hallucinations”. The group quickly gained its first fans, and all their free time began to be spent on its development.

Music

The name of the group, of which Bobunets became the frontman, was born by chance. In a dialogue with one of his colleagues, instead of “auditory hallucinations,” he heard “semantic hallucinations.” A year later, the musical group became a member of the Sverdlovsk rock club. The group's first performances brought sympathy to the audience, and little by little people in their hometown began to take an interest in their work.

The progressive movement was stopped by a creative crisis, which the team managed to overcome. The updated composition of “Semantic Hallucinations” continued performing in 1995. The musicians released a record that attracted the attention of a wide public. The album was called "Separation Now".

Bobunets and his comrades went on tour in support of the disc. At the same time, work was underway on the second record. It became “Here and Now”. The band's real fame came from the recording of the song “Forever Young” for Alexey Balabanov’s film “Brother-2.” They started talking about “Meaning hallucinations”.

Song “Forever Young” by the group “Semantic Hallucinations”

Sergei deftly combined creative activity with hobbies. He appeared on the radio, gave interviews, and worked as a publicist. Bobunets paid great attention to supporting young groups in Yekaterinburg and did not forget about an active lifestyle.

In 2015, the end of concert activities was announced. “Meaning hallucinations” lasted 26 years. During this time, 8 albums and more than 10 videos were released. The rock band won 2 Golden Gramophone awards for the compositions “Why trample on my love” and “Reason will someday win.” In 2004, the group was nominated for the Ovation Award as a contender for the title of “Best Rock Group”.

Song “Rose Glasses” by the group “Semantic Hallucinations”

Soundtracks were recorded for the cinematography “Meaning Hallucinations”. The group’s hits are heard in the films “At the Game” and “Forbidden Reality”. Bobunets and his colleagues were regular guests of the “Invasion” festival. From the main rock scene of the country, musicians performed songs such as “Rose-colored Glasses”, “April”, “First Day of Autumn” and others.

Until 2017, the band toured, saying goodbye to fans. Having completed his co-creation with his colleagues, the musician traveled, drawing inspiration for new hits, composing music, and working with representatives of the cinema. Sergei Bobunets began performing solo. He gave several charity concerts in the DPR and Syria.

Sergey Bobunets and the group “Sansara” perform the song “Clouds”

In the fall of 2017, the artist’s self-recorded mini-album, “While the Angels Dance,” was released. Fans greeted the record with interest, combining recognizable features of the music of “Meaning Hallucinations” and a new sound. The disc consisted of 3 songs. Already in the spring of 2018, Bobunets presented a full-length album, “Everything is Normal.”

The musician continues to collaborate with Russian rock bands. He has joint projects with the Samsara group and. Among Bobunets’ hits today are the songs “I Love”, “Smile”, “Nowhere to Run”.

Personal life

Sergei Bobunets lives with his family near Lake Shartash in Yekaterinburg. The musician's wife's name is Dilara. The future spouses met in their youth, living in neighboring yards. Dilara Bobunets is a designer and architect by profession. The family has a son, Nikita. The young man, like his father, plays music. They do not say whether the spouses have plans to have more children.

Sergey does not share details of his personal life, but from his personal account on the network "Instagram" fans can find out about the musician’s upcoming concerts and leisure activities. He regularly posts photos, notifying followers about his pastime and plans for upcoming events.

The artist prefers an active lifestyle, loves riding a motorcycle, car and ATV. As a versatile personality, he demonstrates the versatility of his nature, having many hobbies.

Sergey Bobunets now

Despite his public profession and interest in journalism, Sergei Bobunets is not a fan of public speaking. He admits to journalists that before each appearance on stage he has to gather his courage.

Buba continues to conduct concerts and tours, is working on recording new songs and remains a cult figure of the domestic rock Olympus.

Now Bobunets is realizing himself as a musician and entrepreneur. In Yekaterinburg he runs his own restaurant. The musician's name is included in the list of famous people of the city.

Discography

2017 - “While the angels dance”
2018 - “Everything is normal”

The group “Semantic Hallucinations” has been consistently among the headliners of the domestic rock scene for many years, regularly rotating on radio stations and performing at major festivals.

In addition, the leader of the group, Sergei Bobunets, is promoting the unusual project “Rotoff,” which became famous on the Internet thanks to the song “Basque is not a goat.”

Now the musicians of “Meaning Hallucinations” are preparing to release a new album, intriguing fans with talk that the record is chamber and dark. The correspondent of “Show Business News NEWSmusic.ru” met with Sergei Bobunets in order to understand why the group became close to the motifs of darkness, and at the same time talk about the end of the world, modern show business and the Russian Cossacks.

“You can make music without money”

I’ll start with your new project “Rotoff”. You said that he has nothing to do with show business, but at the same time you are the producer of this project. Isn't the producer the one who makes the business?

My role is precisely to strictly adhere to the boundaries of the genre and not go beyond the limits of accessible art. This applies to both budget and arrangements. On the one hand, everything should be done extremely simply, and on the other, with technical excellence. The idea must be expressed in simple, understandable language, which is why the style that Kolya came up with is called “pop underground”: pop because it’s accessible, and underground because Kolya is a master of taking a song off the air with one word.

This project is being done without the hope that it will have any ethereal life. That is, we decided to go on an experiment and show people, using the example of the Rotoff project, that you can make music without money. Over the past year, Kolya had one song on the soundtrack of the film “Love in the City 2”, he performed at almost all summer festivals, and it was clear how people fell in love with this man. Kolya is a very bright showman.

Well, “Rotoff” has a serious support in the form of “Semantic Hallucinations,” but do you think that young groups that do not have this support can really achieve something without money and connections?

Yes, here we, of course, make a little use of the opportunity that we have and help Kolya with his tours. It is clear that the song with which he shot, “Basque is not a goat,” was also so successful because Gorshok participated in its recording, who did not even suspect that everything would turn out this way. We didn't even suspect it ourselves. We were just joking at that moment. But, nevertheless, basically Kolya is perceived as a separate project from the “Meaning Hallucinations” group, as a project of a completely different pole. Now it has become clear that it’s time to separate our pages, Kolya needs to start his own blogs, his own accounts on social networks. We were able to afford to record a very dark album, and we gave all the positivity to Kolya. It happened by accident, but it turned out very well. It’s always a pleasure to go on stage after Kolya, because the audience is completely warmed up.

As for young bands, I think they can achieve something without money. And there are many examples of this: for example, Peter Nalich. We want to show that you don’t have to spend money on expensive studios or expensive videos. The point is in the idea. Nowadays, the number of views of amateur videos is much greater than the views of professional videos. People are more interested in watching what people like them do, in watching what they could do themselves.

Now there is an opinion that there are too many young bands and guitars should be sold like weapons, under license. Do you agree?

Good wording. This happens not only in our country, thanks to the fact that the Internet has made information accessible. Previously, you could tell what came out this week and what was good and what was not. Nowadays, even professionals who only engage in getting acquainted with new musical releases admit that they do not have time to listen to everything. Therefore, there are no big heroes and bright characters. They are simply difficult to notice. The volume of information is so great that every musician now lives in his own small garden. But I think this is just a phase, and soon everything will be fine again.

“Our new album will help many people”

Your new album turns out to be dark. I read that it was written by candlelight. So you prefer live lighting to electric?

This is due to the fact that I worked mainly at night, and it was more comfortable for me to do it by candlelight. In general, I like to have a lot of them in the house. When friends come to visit me, dozens of candles burn. They give off real warmth. And this atmosphere that was in my office (and everything is very laconic there and there are only three colors - white, black and red) was transmitted to the songs. We tried to maintain the feeling of a small room and a person left alone with himself. This is an album for individual listening. The album is not gloomy, but dark. It is about a person who is in a crisis situation, on the verge of death: somewhere he understands that death is inevitable and tries to treat this with humor; somewhere he goes towards it deliberately; somewhere he simply accepts it and tries to save not himself, but his loved ones.

- So you think that in the dark a person can take off all his masks and be himself?

Great wording! I think it would be interesting to do a survey on who does what in the dark. Yes, this idea about masks is correct. This explains that the album is very laconic, there is nothing superfluous in it, there are no unnecessary topics. It happens that people write on our website that such and such a song saved a life, helped in a difficult moment. And I think this album will help a lot of people too.

- We already have one group that also loves darkness, candles... I’m talking about “Kukryniksy”.

They have a completely different story. For us, these are simply sensations that a person actually experiences without putting on a black robe. This is human darkness. This can be compared to the feeling when you watch some kind of arthouse film, in which there is no action, no dinosaurs, but there is an extremely simple picture, and it is this that incredibly hooks you.

- Was there any thought then to make the album acoustic?

And it’s practically acoustic anyway. There is very little electricity in it in the form in which we are accustomed to perceive it. This is a chamber album.

- Did you have to rethink many themes and ideas while working on the new album?

About the Khimki forest, you mean? (laughs). I rethought my whole life. Every person has a moment when he looks back, compares his present self with his past self and realizes how much wiser and more experienced he has become. This happened to me too.

“We are shocked by the picture in the new video”

You shot a new video in which you showed a very beautiful Earth on its last day...

Yes, very beautiful. We were shocked by the picture. In some places it is reminiscent of the film House of Flying Daggers.

Should the musicians play in the videos? Or should the musician sing, and all the dramaturgy should be given to professional actors?

In our latest video there are actors, but they are not visible: they are wearing gas masks and chemical protective suits. In general, music videos are small films, and filming them is hard work. To make the clip catchy, you need to do a lot beyond human capabilities. In the video “Reason Will Someday Win,” the actress had to be doused with ice water. Or rather, according to the plot it was gasoline, but our director limited himself to water. She was only in her nightgown, and it was incredibly cold. We stood wrapped in jackets, our teeth chattering from the cold, and she had to not only endure, but also play with different emotions. And there are many such examples. Our first feat was on the set of the “Stars 3000” video. We then decided to jump with a parachute, after which we thought that such things should be trusted to professionals. In our last video, the actors had to run a lot. Can you imagine what it’s like to run around in gas masks? It's incredibly difficult.

In our latest video there are actors, but they are not visible: they are wearing gas masks and chemical protection suits

Is this desire to show the beautiful death of the earth your attitude towards death in general? So you believe that death can be beautiful?

The video is about the last two people on earth who also die. It's just a story with a sad ending.

-Have you ever thought about what you could do today if you knew for sure that tomorrow was the end of the world?

I lived with this feeling for a long time. Lived for today. But I think that all this talk about the end of the world, preparation for it, is so that a person begins to at least think that it is time to spend more time with his family, looking away from the TV; thinking about calling mom, having time to do something really important...

You became famous thanks to your participation in the recording of the soundtrack to the film “Brother”. Are you currently following what is happening in modern cinema?

Of course, I watch movies, I love movies, but I’ve stopped going to cinemas now. However, my son recently bet with me that I would have to go with him to some movie.

“Show business needs fresh air”

In one of your interviews, you said that at the beginning of your creative career, show business was more honest and better, because it was built on friendly relations, but now that is gone. But didn't this help people become more professional?

Yes, maybe it helped... But it used to be that, for example, the entire manufacturing company went with Yulia Chicherina to buy clothes, or to see a stylist, or to solve family problems. When Misha Kozyrev worked at Our Radio, even if the group did not have a 100% hit, he still sat down, listened to the entire album and eventually chose a song. He was sure that the group’s on-air life should continue, even if something didn’t work out this time. There was some kind of personal interest, many of the producers constantly hung out at the concerts of young groups. It was good form. It seems to me that now everything is returning to this again, because it is impossible to stew in the same thing for ten years and everyone understands that fresh names and fresh air are needed.

- So you are ready to work in conditions where there are few professionals, but there are many friends?

I am sure that if a person wants to learn, he will learn everything. Here's an example: we have a friend who lives in Egypt, and he wrote a musical, humorous. We tell him: this is a cartoon series. He thought: “Yes? And who will draw it? We answered: “There is no one but you.” The man sat down and simply studied special computer programs for six months and was able to master it all. For me, the most important quality in people is flexibility and communication skills. If you feel that you can always come to an agreement with a person, then you will be comfortable working with him.

At the “20 Years Without Cinema” festival, just like ten years ago, you covered the song “Mom, we are all seriously ill.” Why is this song so dear to you?

Ten years ago we took part in the recording of a tribute to “Kinoproba”, but we were removed from the concert itself due to a conflict with Real Records, so we were not able to play it then. We are now performing this song at concerts, with the blessing of Georgy Kasparyan. It is felt by us, we are confident in every note. At “20 Years Without Cinema” it was painful for us to listen to some covers at this concert.

- You were accepted into the Cossacks not so long ago. Tell us how it happened.

This is what news turns out to hook people. For some reason they always react more vividly to them than to news about the album. We performed in the city of Timashevsk in the Krasnodar Territory, and we were received very well there. The administration gave us a basket full of food as a symbol of well-being. There were fruits, bread, sausages, cheese, wine, vodka. The mayor of Timashevsk came out and handed me a cloak, a hat, and a mace. I was very moved. When I brought everything to the airport to pack, the man who works there packed it with indescribable tenderness and love. It is clear that people treat this symbol with trepidation.

- It seems to me that the Cossack ideology is somehow close to fate: courage, freedom, rebellion.

Yes, but the question is, is all this present in the current Cossacks, and even in the current fate? I would send an SMS to many rockers with the word “courage” so that it would at least just sound in them.

Musician Sergei Bobunets has been free swimming for a year now. In 2017, he disbanded the team with which he spent his entire adult life. Before the concert in St. Petersburg, Sergei spoke about throwing, his solo album and the feeling of complete loss.

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“What I feared most in my life happened,” the creator of “Meaning Hallucinations” honestly admitted in an interview with “78.”

According to the musician, he spent his entire life with the same people, and never understood how he could perform with session musicians.

I have a friend, Yulia Chicherina, her line-up often changes: the musicians cannot get along with her,” shared Sergei Bobunets. - Her fighting spirit is usually not in resonance with others. I was always surprised by her and asked: “How can you, Julia, go on stage with people who just heard your songs yesterday?” And now it turns out that now every concert for me is a completely separate story. All the people are from different groups, all superstars, but every time you go out and realize that it’s like your first time.

The group “Semantic Hallucinations” appeared in Yekaterinburg in 1989. This was the last rock group officially accepted into the Sverdlovsk rock club - the club soon ceased to exist, and the team of Sergei Bobunts, in fact, put an end to its history.

The musician himself, when creating the group, was impossibly young. And it was “Meaning hallucinations” that made up his entire life for a quarter of a century, minus the last year.

Understand, I was a little boy, I was 15 years old when I got into this bullshit called “Semantic hallucinations,” Bobunets emotionally shares with reporters. - And I lived with the team all the time, interacted with a bunch of people all the time! At some point I just wanted to feel like myself, to take personal responsibility without talking about whether it was a good phrase or not. Whatever I write, I wrote it, and it’s an amazing feeling!

The ex-leader of “Semantic Hallucinations” has previously admitted that living under such a name for 26 years is too hard. Now a new stage has come in his life, the “fluid” team of the new project “Sergei Bobunets” is on stage, and new sensations, although they frighten the musician, are very much to his liking.

It’s cynical, cruel, it’s painful, very painful, but the very feeling that you’re just doing what you want is very cool,” admitted Sergei.

On Wednesday, April 11, Sergei Bobunets presented his new and first exclusively solo album “Everything is Normal” in St. Petersburg. The musician talked about how he works in a fickle team and why new sensations are so good, even though they are scary.

It's actually a big shock. But it’s clear that it works,” Sergei shared his impressions of working with session musicians. - It is clear from the Moscow concerts that the audience appreciated such an avalanche of emotions.

“An avalanche of emotions” among musicians is precisely what comes from working in a new band, Bobunets said:

When people gather in a new project, their eyes light up, they simply burn with napalm!

All the musicians of the new project collaborate with other groups, and each time the project comes together as if for the first time:

I don’t have a lineup yet, except for the original one: a bass guitarist who miraculously appeared from Sochi, and drummer Zhenya Nikulin. The whole team gets together specially every time. It’s clear that we rehearse, they know the material, but the fact is that every time it’s a specially assembled lineup. For them, perhaps this is a normal process, but for me it is a shock.

At the same time, the musician noted that in fact, after the collapse of “Semantic Hallucinations”, nothing fundamentally changed. According to him, in recent years he created all the group’s material together with the band’s drummer:

The last albums were recorded by drummer Zhenya Nikulin and me together. Therefore, people can argue that before the songs were better, the trees were taller, and the sound was better, but, in fact, nothing has changed - because the way we did everything together, we continue to do it together.

However, after the dissolution of the group, the musician had a really hard time.

I spent the last year wandering all over the country, all over the world,” said Sergei. “I don’t think I’ve really calmed down yet.” I just ran and ran... I ran away from myself. I had the feeling that there was no one else in Yekaterinburg, the city that created me. Of course, people remained there, and they love me, but I had the feeling that I had lost my roots, lost everything.

Sergey found himself in January 2018, very far from his native Urals.

Goa saves everyone,” the musician shared. - In January, sitting on the ocean shore, I realized: that’s it, stop. We return home, record an album, and that’s it. Live like a person, be a person!

True, part of the material, which was initially prepared for Sergei’s personal project back in 2015, had to be given to “Semantic Hallucinations.”

I had to merge a few songs that I had already done for solo material: “The Last Confession” and “The Beast 2”. Just so that the group has a point in history,” the musician explained.

At the same time, the feeling of “losing everything” helped with the new material.

For the first time, I trusted my intuition. I had an amazing story: I told people how a person feels who has lost everything, whom everyone looks at with suspicion, and how he passes through all the links of this battery,” said Sergei.

It was still not possible to part with the team of “Meaning Hallucinations” exclusively tenderly and with love, admitted Sergei. Although, of course, the musicians maintained adequate relations:

When this happens, it seems to me that to say that we are parting as friends would still be a lie. The sediment remains. I think they all don't like me.

But the musicians themselves’ lives and creative paths are going well.

Kolya Rotov is an actor, his project has not been closed, he performs and hosts a morning show on the radio. The keyboard player and guitarist have a project with a girl, so musical and beautiful. Everything is in order,” Bobunets said.

And despite the fact that the new sensations of the ex-leader of “Semantic Hallucinations” are frightening, and he himself feels quite lonely without the team with whom he spent almost his entire life, he is now ready to fully invest in the new project. Sergei said that now for him every concert is like a special project for which musicians specially gather. And he promised that he would make new music “with pleasure and honestly.”

At the box office - “About Rock” by Evgeny Grigoriev - one of the best documentaries of the year. A funny and sad story about young Ekaterinburg musicians looks like a succinct statement about a “confused generation” stuck between the past and the future. The film won the Grand Prix of the documentary competition at the Omsk “Movement” and a special prize at the “Window to Europe” festival in Vyborg.

In 2011, director Evgeny Grigoriev decided to make a film about the modern rock scene of Yekaterinburg, once one of the capitals of Russian rock. An open talent competition was announced especially for the film, designed to identify the most promising groups. The jury consisted entirely of rock music dinosaurs, including Vladimir Shakhrin (“Chaif”) and Sergei Bobunets (“Meaning Hallucinations”). But then everything didn’t go as planned. Actually, the disaster of the original plan is the main plot line of the film.