Biography of the Group Hummingbirds

The history of the Hummingbirds group The History of the Hummingbird Group, the Group of Hummingbirds, the original musical team from St. Petersburg, working in the style of experimental rock, was formed in the year on the initiative of Natalia Pivovarova, graduates of the Leningrad Institute of Culture, who studied in the studio of the Lyudsey Mim Theater and, in its own expression, which was about to be a clown.

Pivovarova previously took part in the project of Sergei Kuryokhin “Pop-Mechanics”. Formally, it is believed that the birthday of "Hummingbird" is March 8 of the year. In fact, for more than a year it was a girlish party and nothing more. Then it was assumed that there will be many different girls in the group associated with the bohemian of someone’s wives, friends, etc.

Well, that is, so that at home they just do not sit, separate from young men, have status. None of the girls called under the banners of Pivovarova owned any instruments, did not study music, and therefore they all started from scratch - they began to take singing lessons. But they did not learn how to play the instruments and therefore arose the concept of a group working under the minus alone, that is, with lively voices under the instrumental phonogram.

Concert performances begin in the year, then a debut album of behavior was released. Members of the Aquarium group, nautilus pompilius, TV, including participants in the aquarium, Mikhail Finshtein and Alexander Titov, who allegedly came up with the name of the first album according to another version - Nikita Mikhailovsky, and TV drummer Alexei Rasen, took part in his records.

In the same year, the album was published on the vinyl record by Feelee, and a year later, according to its license, it was reprinted in the United States. With compositions from this album, the group begins to tour in Russia and France. Since Pivovarova was previously associated with the experimental theater, the “Hummingbird” immediately relied on a costume show, as a result of which their style is closest to the cabaret, when the same attention is paid to action and music.

In the same year, Olga Feshchenko leaves the team, who leaves for studying in France, after which the team remains unchanged for seven years. The next work "Hummingbird" is released in the year - small tragedies. Its instrumental part was provided by the studio musician and arranger Yuri Sobolev Brigadier, Pangea, N. All four vocalists wrote their songs, and the leading party in the song was usually performed by the one that wrote it.

Starting from the year of the song "Hummingbird" began to sound on the radio, the group becomes widely known. Of particular popularity is the song “Autumn Leaf”, written by Elena Yudanova as a parody of Russian popular music. The most successful album of the group began to find 10 differences released in the year, in which Vyacheslav Koshelev and a number of other members of the Prepinaki group, Natalya Pivovarova, was married to the singer of the latter Alexander Lushin, as well as the guitarist of the TV “TV” and “Nautilus pompilius”, the drummer of the group of strange games Igor Cheiridnik, the drummer of the group, the drummer of the group.

The keyboard player of the DDT group Andrey Muratov. In the fall of the year, “Hummingbirds” was invited to work on their new album of the Bass of Sugar group TEQUILAJAZZZ, as well as DDT Konstantin Shumaylov, the DDT keyboat. In the spring of the year, the new album saw the light and “Hummingbird” for the first time gave a series of concerts with a live sound accompanied by the musicians of Tequilajazzz.

In the summer of the year, an album of remixes is released, which was called - the remixes, Igor Vdovin Leningrad, Valeria Alakhovy “New Composers”, as well as the Deadushki and Alexandroid group took part in the record. In December, Natalya Pivovarova left the group for her own projects. In years, the group tours in Sweden and Finland. In the year, for the album of the Cavers, Dushi Romanov recorded the cult “hooks”.

For the soundtrack to the Azazel of a wonderful “titular adviser” of Dargomyzhsky. In the year, a cover version of the song “Aquarium” “10 arrows” for the anniversary collection was recorded. In the year, Andrei Gradovich and Oleg Emirov leave the group. In the year, the posthumous solo album of the leader of the Hummingbird group Natalya Pivovarova Street Zelinsky is released. The ex-solidist of the Gener group recorded this album during his lifetime, but did not have time to “reduce” it and make all the arrangements.

At the request of the friends of Natalia Pivovarova, Svetlana Surganova kindly agreed to do this work, at the studio of which the album was preparing within a month. In September, a group, which never hides its position regarding the equality of homosexuals, took part in the international festival of Quire Culture, organized under the patronage of the Russian LGBT network.

In November, the Internet release of the Album Iron Stars took place. The musicians were attended by the musicians of the SoundScript33 group, who accompany the group at concert performances. Kushnir "Magnets of Soviet Rock" about the Generian Group and about the album of the manner of behavior. The manner of behavior is the first album of the vocal female quintet from St. Petersburg.

Unlike small tragedies and a demon of sugar, music in this work is not tied to any one mood.There is a wet-grandmother, and silently falling stars, and the unacceptable luxury of forbidden acts, and the bitterness of insights. The sea grotesque, charm and beautiful amateurism - against the backdrop of amazing harmony, oriental melodies and memorable instrumental parties. A number of songs sounds just great.

A lot of exotic, stylization and unearthly beauty. All this semi -electronic decadence is luxuriously served technically: Titov on Basa, Sakmarov on Key, Flute and Saxophone, Racen drums plus several more invited musicians who play in different compositions on different instruments - from the accordion to the cello to the cello. The St. Petersburg scene did not know such a sophisticated and at the same time relevant pop music.

It looked really fresh, attractive and unusually elegant cats with rogue smiles, the “hummingbird” began their work with thoughtful retrostizations under the sixties. Unlike a later period, their then performances took place under a living accompaniment. The show was called the “Vacations of Love” and was distinguished by an interesting playwright, exaggeratedly otherworldly makeup and luxurious costumes made by the famous Moscow fashion designer Katya Filippova.

In the pauses between the songs, the girls cleverly changed into all kinds of outfits - from the Kramskiy Russian ladies of the semi -light to the priestesses of love from the Parisian brothel. The apotheosis of the action was the scene of a slight striptease, which was tastily performed by Natalya Pivovarova in front of a stunned audience. We were interested in the existence on the stage both in the role of actresses, and in the role of singers.

” The former participant of "Lyudeev", Pivovarova was the first who, within the framework of "Hummingbird" began to write their own songs. The plots were prompted by life itself. So, the composition “Paris” was autobiographical and was written shortly after the return of the group from France. Having convicted his wife in feminist moods, he threw her, leaving a note at home with the words: "I do not need an American wife." The reciprocal gesture of Pivovarova was the song written on the same night, the text of which gave an exhaustive description of his wife’s ideal from the point of view of men: “He loves her that serves and cooks food, or he simply sits and is silent about his nobody.” Another of the ideologists “Hummingbirds” Lena Yudanova is a former theater artist and author of such hits as “Manner of behavior”, “City”, “failure” and, a little later, “Autumn Yellow”.

I will not know anything, I don’t remember anything that are different from the low voice of the brewer's pivovari shades of the vocal Lena changed the direction of the evolution "Hummingbirds". The initial vector sophisticated Italian groups of the new wave began to shift towards the female version of Manhattan Transfer - with arrangements made in the spirit of the beloved Yudanova Estonian Big Band of Modern Fox.

A few words about the rest of the participants. Olga Feshchenko, a former fashion model and model artist, collaborated with Hummingbird until the year, and then left for France. Her high voice is heard in the fairy -tale "Orlandin", donated by Alexei Khvostenko during the performances of the "Hummingbird" in Paris. Ira Sharovatova acted as a show-wool in the Kurekhinsky pop-mechanic.

A snub brunette with piercing gray eyes, she has always been a bearer of genuine rock and roll spirit-both in life and in art. On the "manner of behavior" Ira sang along with Pivovarova in the "Serenade of Love." Inna Volkova embodies the image of a funny girl on stage. During the “failure”, she clumsily waving her arms and legs, artistically imitating the loss of rhythm.

Once in the studio, at first she felt much less confident than on stage. I can't. I'm afraid". And Natasha, as a courageous person, said: “Good. If you can’t, I will do it. ” And she did it. " It is interesting that if at the early stage the leadership of Pivovarova and Yudanova was indisputable, later normal creative equality reigned in the group. In particular, on the album “Bass of Sugar”, recorded along with the musicians Tequilajazzz, each of the girls performed the same number of songs, thereby realizing in practice the ideal model of the world.

The same Inna Volkova, who used to be on the sidelines, became the author of the little remarked composition of “chamomile” - perhaps one of the deepest and most tragic opuses of the “hummingbird”, especially in his remixes. But back in the eighties. When the group’s repertoire grew to impressive sizes, the girls began to persuade familiar musicians to work with them in the studio.

At first, Mikhail Malin did not resist the charm of the “Hummingbird” at the port studio of which a trial recording of the song “Voice” was made, then Alexander Titov appeared on the thorns of the girl’s path, who left the ranks of the “Aquarium” shortly before. In November, the “Hummingbirds” made the first attempt on a serious recording. Within one day, the girls managed to fix the American wife - with the help of Sergei Shchurakov - the accordion and Mikhail Vasiliev - percussion, who played their parties with the help of Sergei Shchurakov, with the help of Sergei Shchurakov, - without training.

An entry planned as a demonstration eventually turned out to be a finish. Nikita inspired me very much, and I believed that something could really work out of this project. ” A month later, at the rehearsal point of the Aquarium, the east -shaped “Fuji is not sleeping” was recorded, dedicated to the wife of the famous lyceum of Slava Polunin, who had a creative pseudonym “Fuji”.

Instead of percussion, rhythm-box was used, and the Parties of the flute and Goboy were played by Oleg Sakmarov. A graduate of the theoretical and composer department of the conservatory, he also recorded keyboards in the “Serenade of Love”, which were inspired by the Polovtsian line from the opera of Borodin “Prince Igor”.

Soon the session moved to the Fontanka studio. Here the main problem was purely ethical. The fact is that the music of the “hummingbird” categorically did not like the leader of the TV, Mikhail Borzykin, who was one of the co -founders of the studio. In addition, personal motives were also present in his behavior. And Borzykin decided not to poison our life, closed his eyes on what was happening and allowed us to do everything we want.

” Work on Fontanka started at the end of the year and lasted a very long time. Girls, by their own admission, "plugged all studio holes." At the same time, they willy-nilly intersected with musicians of other groups and, taking this opportunity, attracted them to cooperation. The Nautilus guitarist Alexander Belyaev played Solo in the song “Paris”, the guitarist Mikhail Kuznetsov, drummer Sergey Agapov and even choir of the boys of the chapel named after For them it was an occasion to frolic.

And they frolic. " Electronic drums on the album were programmed by Alexei Rasen from the “TV” - with his inherent intelligence and a subtle sense of style.