Was it hard to switch to the planned electronic style? We immediately found a sound producer and got young musicians involved who charged us with their energy.” We compared them, and something started to emerge. Is NeGruzoviki the joint project that you have just mentioned? I am happy that our opinions differ and we have some space to get a break from each other.” We simply spend so much time together that at times we need these moments: you have found something you like – good for you. But the freedom to do a sideline project is a great advantage, and I am very glad that there is no room for jealousy here. Although we are very different people, both in creative work and in life, of course, we have been together for 13 years. “We have learned to come to agreement, even by putting a lid on our ambitions. We don’t have many arguments on creative questions instead, we have a wonderful ability to step to the side in time, when somebody is pulling a heavy burden. Incidentally, the result of all that was that at some wonderful point we compared our drafts and made another joint project. We have allowed each other to make sideline projects. “We don’t have any problems of this kind.
How do you avoid discord between the leaders? And it is so good that I met Rostyslav Chaban, a bass guitarist whose possibilities are limitless.” I have always wanted to create something with such an extraordinary lineup. Who knows what my life would be if we hadn’t ventured an experimental program for just one festival. “This was a chain of accidents that I came to Dnipropetrovsk and got to know the guys and that they had only a bass guitar and drums by then, and of course I am hugely grateful to the organizers of the Karier Festival. What are the origins of …I Drug Moi Gruzovik? This was a gulp of freedom, so much so it determined what I would be doing for my whole conscious life.” A huge cultural layer was opening up, so you had only to choose what you liked. I became keen on rock music 22 or 23 years ago when I was a usual Kyiv schoolboy, and the first audio cassette that came to hand stirred in me interest for ‘informal music.’ Fortunately, it coincided with perestroika and first semi-underground concerts. “Of course, the roots go back to the Soviet times. They are intending to release new albums in both projects.įor me, …IDMG is important as a representative of the city which for a long while had seemed to be a musical failure. This fall NeGruzoviki gave a big concert at Kyiv’s Gogol-Fest it was followed by a mini-tour - Moscow, St. Gruzoviks (not NeGruzoviki this time) receive invitations to prestigious festivals – so, last year they represented Ukraine at the Sziget Festival, the world’s largest rock forum. Each album they release marks a noticeable event among the music communities of Ukraine and Russia. Last year they launched the project NeGruzoviki, which is a productive opposite to the main band: more synthetic electronic sound is surprisingly combined with very confessionary lyrics and a rich video show.Īs an independent music band with poor rotation on the leading radio stations, …IDMG has won popularity across the entire CIS space. Rostyslav and Anton are inventive enough to produce an alternative even to themselves. They combine funk with jazz, hard-core klezmer (this sort of thing does exist) with hip-hop, techno with bossa nova.Īnton’s lyrics – ironical, at times acrimonious, lyrical, or absurd – ideally embed in the refined ambience produced by the band’s composer, virtuoso bassist Rostyslav Chaban. Instead, they have been trying ever new combinations in every new album or project, which come as a surprise to both music critics and the band’s buffs.
They have never sat still with the successful fusion of the core elements they created 12 years ago. The …IDMG members are a kind of rock alchemists. This was the moment when one of Ukraine’s best music bands was born.
After all, it was …IDMG who came to be a real sensation and breakthrough of the Karier: the bass and drumbeat were weaving a refined and up-tempo rhythmic basis, whereas the charismatic and sprightly frontman Anton Sliepakov filled every composition with insane energy. They had few chances for success: a scarcely known band with a strange core presented by a vocalist, a bass guitarist, and a drummer, and an awkward name. The mere emergence of …I Drug Moi Gruzovik (…IDMG), which translates as…And My Friend Truck, looks like an effective experiment: when in August 1997 local enthusiasts decided to hold a rock festival Karier in the suburbs of Dnipropetrovsk, three musicians gathered to give a one-time performance exclusively for this festival. The Dnipropetrovsk music band …I Drug Moi Gruzovik offers a rare combination of continuous artistic exploration and convincing results.
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