Shortparis is a musical group from St. Petersburg.
When the group first presented their song, the experts immediately began to determine in which musical direction the group was working. There is no consensus on the style in which the musical group plays.
The only thing that is known for sure is that the musicians create in the style of post-punk, indie, and avant-pop.
The history of the creation and composition of the musical group Shortparis
The date of birth of the group falls on 2012. In fact, the musical group is considered Petersburg. However, three of the soloists of Shortparis - Nikolai Komyagin, Alexander Ionin and Pavel Lesnikov, come from the small town of Novokuznetsk.
The Petersburgers are the smaller part of the team - drummer Danila Kholodkov and guitarist Alexander Galianov, who also plays keyboards.
When the work of young musicians gained popularity in wide circles, the guys shared with journalists the information that their life belongs not only to music.
For example, Alexander is still periodically engaged in the restoration of antiques, and Danila earns extra money by being able to make chic repairs in apartments.
Nikolai Komyagin worked for a long time at the Museum of Modern Art, which is located in the center of St. Petersburg.
Prior to that, Nikolai was a teacher. He admitted that both professions were to his liking and brought only pleasure. Of course, in such a scenario, it’s hard not to guess that Nikolai’s salary was meager.
Team formation
When the guys formed their own musical group, it immediately became clear that music lovers would deal with informal musicians.
Shortparis is an atypical project, so the musicians keep some of the nuances of its birth in strictness.
In addition, it is important to note that the soloists of the musical group do not like to give interviews at all, and in general they are ardent opponents of the media.
According to the performers, the result of conversations with journalists rarely suits them. “Journalists always show only what is beneficial to them.
Readers are mainly attracted to all sorts of dirt. Therefore, the task of journalists comes down to only one thing - to collect a bucket of dirt at the conference and put it on display.”
The main task of the musical group Shortparis is creativity based on a challenge to standard art forms and their repetition. This is one of the most popular groups of today's youth.
Their videos are gaining millions of views, which indicates one thing - they are interesting to their viewers.
Creativity of the musical group Shortparis
Shortparis is not just a musical group. The fact is that in their work, music is firmly connected with the way it is presented, whether it is a clip or a concert performance.
Many music critics associate the group with a theatrical project. However, the soloists themselves are not delighted with this. They say that Shortparis is only a musical group.
But, one way or another, the group's concerts are a kind of theatrical action, which is thought out from "A" to "Z".
The group's concerts are dominated by gestures, various rituals and actions. This scene is very interesting to watch from the side. But, the main role in this performance still belongs to songs and music.
Debut album by Shortparis
In 2012, the group was formed, and already in 2013 the guys released their debut album, which they called "The Daughters".
It is noteworthy that there is not a single track on the disc that would be recorded in their native, Russian language.
Most of the tracks on the debut album are in English and French. The first album received a lot of positive feedback. This convinced the guys not to stop at the achieved results.
The soloists of the musical group consider the transition to the Russian-language performance to be a step forward - the use of "foreign" languages Nikolai calls evidence of both personal and musical immaturity of the early period of creativity.
Second album release
The second disc, called Easter, was released in 2017 and already contained Russian-language songs. The top song of the second album was the track "Love".
Fans of the work of the musical group literally sang praises of this song.
In the spring of 2018, Shortparis will officially present the Shame clip. The clip "Shame", as always, turned out to be bright, original and very concise.
After the release of the video clip, music experts summed up the results, saying that there are some similarities between the work of Shortparis and the early Auctionon.
D. Doran, director of the British "The Quietus", compared the performances of the group with what the young Kuryokhin was doing. Shortparis is one of those musical groups that successfully implements their work in the territory of their native country and neighboring countries.
Collaboration with Kirill Serebryannikov
A positive moment for the musical group was the collaboration with director Kirill Serebryannikov. The director invited the musical group to perform David Bowie's song "All the young dudes" for the film "Summer".
The director was delighted with how “correctly” the guys performed the track. Cyril admitted that from the performance of the song, he got goosebumps all over his body.
In the winter of 2018, the musical group released a video for the song "Scary". The song and the video itself caused a real resonance.
In the clip, you can track the whole chronology of the tragic events on the territory of the Russian Federation. The video sequence contained unveiled references to the tragedy in Beslan, the massacre in Kerch and nationalist movements.
It was very important for the soloists of the musical group to highlight the tragic events that took place in their native country in the right light.
Throughout the entire period of filming the presented video clip, the police received calls with complaints. The actions of the musicians were regarded as propaganda. The musicians themselves said that there was a period when they already wanted to give up the idea of \uXNUMXb\uXNUMXbthe “Scary” video.
Concert activity of the group
One of the most important parts of the creative work of a musical group are concerts. On them, the soloists of the group deliberately try to get away from the generally accepted traditions of performing in public.
The group with their concerts performed not only at traditional concert venues, but also at factories, grocery stores and strip clubs.
Shortparis has its own views on music and how it should be. Musicians with every movement, vocals and music say that listeners are dealing with an informal musical group.
Critics say that the guys are waiting for a worthy musical career. This kind of music is the future.
Interesting facts about Shortparis
- Few people correctly pronounce the name of the musical group the first time. The musicians of the group pronounce "Shortparis" in different ways - "shortpari", "shortparis" or "shortparis".
- Shortparis spend 4 days a week rehearsing. Due to such a tough discipline, the musical group sounds very harmonious, and the same discipline is the key to success, which the musicians have achieved over the past five years.
- The soloists of the musical group performed the song "Scary" on the program "Evening Urgant".
- Soloists are ardent opponents of alcoholic beverages and drugs.
- Drummer and percussionist Danila Kholodkov has extensive experience of participating in musical groups behind his back.
- The tracks of the musical group are very popular in the United States of America.
The soloists of the musical group are little interested in information about how the right underground should look like.
They "swim" against the current, and this is where the main highlight of the group lies.
In the circles of Russian show business, there is one sign that if a group is invited to Ivan Urgant's Evening Urgant program, then it is just at the peak of popularity and will continue to be there for at least a year.
In the winter of 2019, the musicians visited the Evening Urgant program, performing one of the top musical compositions there.
The performance of Shortparis remains the same in the network format. The musical group has its own website, which really has nothing but a terrifying background and complete emptiness.
Short paris now
Instagram Shortparis is also symbolic. There are no picturesque and cute pictures on the guys page. What is not an image, then a psychedelic.
Now the St. Petersburg musical group is actively touring throughout the Russian Federation.
In addition, they have planned concerts abroad that they want to hold in the near future.
Musicians are reluctant to contact journalists. They say that in order to get a group to their conference, a journalist must have a sufficient level of knowledge about the group, and, of course, a sufficient level of professionalism.
In 2019, the guys presented the full-length LP "So the Steel Was Tempered". The studio confirmed that the team is something new on the local stage of St. Petersburg.
In 2021, the premiere of another novelty took place. We are talking about the collection "Apple Orchard". In general, the album was received positively by "fans". In December, the guys gave several big solo concerts.
At the beginning of June 2022, a cool “thing” was released from progressive Russian rockers. The mini-disc "Call of the Lake", or rather the tracks of the collection, became the soundtrack for the play "Take care of your faces".
