Song of the lost soldier - part 3

  For example, I assembled a rifle back in 2015-2016, a helmet and a gas mask - also before starting work on the film. In general, each of the members of our film crew did something with their own hands for the film and the hut, this also applies to the costume of the protagonist: for example, we made boots separately (but together) with our operator, having agreed about their length. He did one, and I did the second. The hut itself is located near the Strelna station and is open to visitors, you just need to write to one of us about our intention to visit it, and we will let you know where the key to it is hidden.

- Explain a little to the readers about low quality and folk topics. Have you traveled to Vologda to look at lace and wooden architecture or to Ustyug to see blackening on silver?

- I have long liked the image obtained with the help of any imperfect devices: cameras of the late mid-1990s or phones of the early 2000s. Such pictures seem to allow you to see something between the modern world and the world that does not yet have a name.

About folk - from a certain moment I felt that my soul was filled with peace from the sound, timbre and general mood of some bands. I have a stupid story that's hard to verify, but I like to think it's true: I once met Douglas Pierce at Udelnaya at a flea market.

It was the beginning of spring, and while my gaze wandered in search of something interesting among the snow and puddles, trees and various trash, I caught up with a strange couple: a tall lady dressed in black and her companion, dressed in a mixture of SS camouflage with post-war Austrian and wearing unusual dark glasses.

It was like a tour. And at one point we passed each other between the birches. End of the story.

Vologda at the moment for me is a white spot on the world map, unfortunately. But I would like to fix this as soon as the situation in life and the world allows.

- You tried to paint with soot on the ceilings - what came of it? And I would also like to find out about a tin can as part of an imitation of a gas mask.

- Soot is an experiment that one of my friends suggested to me to do, Daniil Borisov aka lohetoya, but we never managed to complete it because of the eternal conflict of power structures with street artists.

As for the can, in my works I often try to repeat any objects from real life, adding to them something, no matter how paradoxical it sounds, of my own, as well as a little laugh about what is happening. The result is two gas masks, which I collected with an eye on the specimens of the beginning of the century, but instead of filters they have rusty cans. Subsequently, it was decided to use one of the gas masks for the film "The Life of Goreslav the Alien."

- What do you think about Instagram and a toggle switch as an alternative to the official website? Was there an idea to conquer unexpected territories, for example, to shoot tik-tok with scraping off rust from dishware to a dungeon synth?

- The tumbler was a very interesting structure, I liked its asceticism, which could be adhered to, I had two of them, they were similar, but I decided to conduct the second in a more accurate manner, if you understand me. But everything has a beginning and everything has an end. The end of the tumbler came two or three years ago, when the owners of this resource decided to ban all content with images of naked bodies. But, as one wise man said about this, instead of curing the finger, they decided to amputate the hand. Unfortunately, this platform is dead, many interesting accounts have been killed by this action. But how well it all started ...

An interesting idea about tik-tok, but so far I can not say anything about it. Such things require concentration, calmness and something else, which is not in me now.

- You host the Joy of the Heart public, what is his idea?

- "Joy of the Heart" is a secret box that arose from an ancient joke: to create a public that will change its focus every week. In this form, it existed for about two or three months, and then retrained into a kind of simple and complex thing, where each album is a kind of substance, roughly reflecting the time when a particular album was created.

I like to collect all kinds of weird, interesting photos, screenshots, and more. Sometimes, however, there is some general theme, be it a specific place where these photographs were taken, or concentration on the subject of shooting, or several photographs by the same author, to which I added frames similar in mood, as it seemed to me. The exception is the album "primrose branch" - there I post photos of objects that I make myself. There are also several hidden albums dedicated to someone or something, for example - a dedication to the vocalist Christian Death.

Rozz Williams (1963–1998), vocalist for Christian Death

- You had a noise musical project Ruk-Ghat, but for some reason it disappeared as quickly as it appeared. What kind of music inspires you now?

- Ruk-Ghat is an experiment, a step with my foot where my feet were not, but there were others, from this feeling all the work stopped. That is, I had a fuse, a minimum of understanding of instruments, and at that time I talked with one noise musician who inspired me to move to the same degree, but gradually our paths diverged, and I decided that it was better to concentrate on other things, and to music may come back after a while.

Now my favorites are ancient EBM, post-punk, punk, goth rock, still apocalyptic folk and dark ambient, sometimes synth-pop, dungeon synth and black, but mostly everything before the 2000s ... for example for example for example

My acquaintance with the EBM genre began with an interest in such bands as Skinny Puppy, Hocico, Suicide Commando. It was their early works that caught on with a dirty and raw sound, from which both of them later moved away, but still retained something in themselves, despite the rather great fame that came to them over time.

Once, in search of some performers of a similar orientation, I came across several very interesting VKontakte communities (it should be noted: the joy of this social network is that it provides access to a large collection of various music, which would be difficult to find outside of it, and for me it's like a breath of fresh air in our world of prohibitions and restrictions).

The first community is led, as I understand it, by the Frenchman Eric Braun, somehow connected with this kind of music, and he has good taste! This community is dedicated, as the annotation in the band's header says, to the curious who wish to discover dark, disturbing, noisy or emotional musical alternatives from the past & present.

Let it be the second. Here - Rare EBM, Minimal, Industrial for the whole family. An excellent collection on this topic. And all releases until about 2000s. A miracle, a miracle.

Or here - the quiet noise of everyday life or ritual tunes that sometimes the soul needs so much, but which is hard to find among the garbage and tinsel in most other communities.

There are also releases from the ancient, golden 1970-1980s, when such magic still took place.

I also want to note this community for adherence to the roots of the direction and less attention to what can be called a new wave.

Once such a story happened to me. We walked with a friend at one large factory facility, part of the buildings of which is in a dilapidated, abandoned state.

In the courtyard of one building, we saw a man with an easel, who drew the ruins of a factory from life, and literally a minute later, a guard appeared out of nowhere and advised us all to leave this place, but the man with an easel asked permission to continue his work, because he is more silent than travelers like us. The guard invited him to go to the next building, which he did.

I managed to forget about it, but after a while, when I was looking for some darkfolk album, I accidentally stumbled upon the community of this person - I understood this from his work, which flies like an arrow through the factory ruins that he painted.

- What materials do you use to make masks and what materials generally warm you like glass wool?

- I love natural and archaic materials of technology: metal, wood, gypsum, bread crumb, bone, stone, paper cardboard is also suitable. I have a great liking for non-ferrous metals such as copper and brass, I do not like plastic and everything artificial. But this is a floating rule for rubber, because this material was actively used in the middle and a little at the beginning of the last century - during the war, it seems to me interesting.

- Volcanic rocks, scars from a lightning strike - in which natural phenomena and simple things can you find inspiration and a breath of life?

- I am very pleased with the thunder and storm. Thunder, thunder gives rise to some inexplicable jubilation inside. Also, the blizzard is very happy if you have somewhere to hide, you can even make tea or something stronger ...