The Alisa team is the most influential rock band in Russia. Despite the fact that the group recently celebrated its 35th anniversary, the soloists do not forget to please their fans with new albums and video clips.
The history of the creation of the Alisa group
The Alisa group was founded in 1983 in Leningrad (now Moscow). The leader of the first squad was the legendary Svyatoslav Zaderiy.
In addition to the leader of the group, the first line-up included: Pasha Kondratenko (keyboardist), Andrei Shatalin (guitarist), Mikhail Nefedov (drummer), Boris Borisov (saxophonist) and Petr Samoilov (vocalist). The latter left the group almost immediately and Borisov took his place.
Konstantin Kinchev got acquainted with the work of the Alisa group at the second meeting of the music festival of the Leningrad Rock Club.
A year after the formation of the team, Zadery invited Konstantin to become part of Alice. He accepted the offer. At the third music festival, the Alisa group performed already led by Konstantin.
According to Kinchev, he was not going to remain in the Alisa group on a permanent basis. He sought to help the guys record their debut album.
But it so happened that in 1986 Zadery left the team, taking up another project, “Nate!”, And Kinchev remained at the “helm”.
In 1987, Alisa was already a recognizable rock band. They organized concerts throughout Russia. But at that moment, Kinchev was distinguished by a stormy temper.
He got into a fight with a policeman for not letting his pregnant wife backstage. A case has been filed against Konstantin. However, a year later the situation was resolved peacefully.
In the same 1987, the group performed at a music festival in the capital of Ukraine, where, in addition to Alisa, the groups Nautilus Pompilius, Olga Kormukhina, DDT, Black Coffee and other rock bands performed.
In 1988, the Alisa group set off to conquer the United States of America with their Red Wave concert program.
In addition, in the USA and Canada, the musicians released a split of the same name: two vinyl discs, each side recorded 4 tracks of Soviet rock bands such as: "Strange Games", "Aquarium", "Alisa" and "Kino".
In 1991, Kinchev was awarded the prestigious Ovation award in the Best Rock Singer of the Year category. In 1992 Konstantin accepted the Orthodox faith. This event influenced the work of the Alisa group. Since the early 2000s rockers did not give concerts during the Great and Assumption Lent.
In 1996, the Alisa group had an official website, which contains biographical data of the soloists of the group, a poster of concerts and the latest news from the life of the group. The site also contains the official profiles of the musicians' social networks.
Since the early 2000s, musicians have relegated the theme of religion to the background. The themes of their tracks are focused on reflections on the world around them.
In 2011, Konstantin shocked the public a little. The artist entered the stage in a T-shirt on which it was written: “Orthodoxy or death!”. Later Konstantin commented: “I don’t know how anyone, but I can’t live without Orthodoxy.”
The composition of the musical group
The only permanent soloist of the musical group is the famous Konstantin Kinchev. The composition of the team practically did not change. The change took place every 10-15 years.
Currently, the Alisa musical group looks like this: Konstantin Kinchev is responsible for vocals, guitar, lyrics and music. Petr Samoilov plays the bass guitar and is a backing vocalist. In addition, Peter also writes music and lyrics for songs.
Evgeny Levin is responsible for the sound of the guitar, Andrey Vdovichenko is responsible for the percussion instruments. Dmitry Parfenov - keyboardist and backing vocalist. Recently, the group has changed the soloist. The place of Igor Romanov was taken by the no less talented Pavel Zelitsky.
Music group Alice
The group "Alice" for 35 years of hard work has released more than 20 albums. In addition, the musical group released collaborations with the groups "Korol i Shut", "Kalinov Most", "Earring".
If we talk about the musical genre, then the Alisa group creates music in the style of hard rock and punk rock.
The first track after the collapse of the Soviet Union was the song "Mama", which the leader of the group wrote in 1992. For the first time, Kinchev and the Alisa group presented the track to the general public in 1993. The song is dedicated to the anniversary of the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan.
The top track "Route E-95" was written by Konstantin in 1996. It is interesting that at that time the musician was traveling along the Ryazan-Ivanovo route. At that time, the route with that name connected Moscow and St. Petersburg. At the moment, the route is called "M10".
In 1997, the Alisa group presented a video clip for the track E-95 Highway. Vera, Kinchev's daughter, starred in the video clip. The shooting was right on the track that Konstantin sang about.
Interestingly, when the police saw that the video was being filmed, they offered to block the road for a while. However, director Andrei Lukashevich, who worked on the video clip, refused this offer, citing the fact that it would turn out to be implausible.
Another top composition of the musical group is the song "Spindle". Kinchev wrote the track in 2000 - this is the only song from the album "Dance" that the musical group performed at concerts.
The video was filmed in Ruza, the autumn nature of the Moscow region only intensified the melancholy mood of the video.
Interesting facts about the group
- Interestingly, Konstantin's "native" surname sounds like Panfilov. Kinchev is the surname of his own grandfather, who was repressed in the 1930s and died on the territory of Magadan.
- The video clip for the musical composition "Aerobics" for the group "Alisa" was shot by Konstantin Ernst.
- After the presentation of the Black Label disc, Kinchev released his own beer called Burn-Walk. Several batches of beer with this label went on sale. Under "Zhgi-gulay" there was a taste of Zhiguli beer with a re-glued label.
- The disc "For those who fell from the moon" is the last work of the so-called "golden" composition of the musical group (Kinchev - Chumychkin - Shatalin - Samoilov - Korolev - Nefyodov).
- In 1993, the leader of the Kinchev group was awarded the Defender of Free Russia medal. Boris Yeltsin presented the award to the rocker.
Musical group Alice today
In 2018, the rockers celebrated the 35th anniversary of the founding of the musical group. A list of cities that the musicians will visit was posted on the official website of the Alisa group.
In the same 2018, the group was announced as a headliner at the popular Motostolitsa and Kinoproby festivals. Musicians have a tradition - to perform annually in the village. Bolshoye Zavidovo, at the legendary Invasion festival, where they gave a concert in 2018, 2019, and another group will perform in 2020.
In 2019, rockers, to the delight of fans, presented a new album, Salting. A record amount for the Russian Federation was collected for its release - 17,4 million rubles. The record was recorded in an updated line-up - all guitar parts were performed by Pavel Zelitsky.
