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Musician Evgeny Grinko is compared to the famous composer Jan Tiersen for the lightness and smoothness of his melodies. He did not immediately come to neoclassical music with piano accompaniment: Grinko was once a drummer in the group “Solntsesvety”, accompanying the ex-vocalist of “Can” Damo Suzuki and the American minimalist composer Rhys Chatham during their Russian concerts. Eight years ago, during a break from noisy rock parties, he wrote the composition Valse. Today the video has 15 million views.
The first piano album Winter Sunshine was released on January 1, 2011, and two years later Grinko’s first concert took place in Istanbul. Since then, his performances have attracted thousands of audiences in the Middle East. In 2014, Evgeniy moved from the city to the village and lives in a small house in the forest, continuing to write new compositions and music for documentaries.
In the summer of 2018, the composer’s new mini-album entitled Tiny Mouse Tales, consisting of seven tracks, was released. The concept of the record is the desire to recreate the atmosphere of fairy tales released on vinyl by the Melodiya studio.
“I decided to shoot a live video with live sound in order to show us as we are “here and now”, to convey live emotion, which is only possible during the direct performance of music, without superimposing a recorded soundtrack,” says the composer.
The musicians’ performance was filmed in one take: cameraman Vsevolod Ledovsky did not transform the picture with editing. The famous Moscow mansion of Smirnov on Tverskoy Boulevard was chosen for filming. “We filmed in a historic hall with huge stained glass windows. All this helped to emphasize the fairy-tale motif of the music,” adds Evgeny Grinko.
Once upon a time is one of the main compositions on the latest album, the presentation of which will take place on October 14 in St. Petersburg and October 25 in Moscow.
