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The group has changed the line-up and name

 

 

http://www.myspace.com/400gouts

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My songs would not be possible without the following people, films, books etc. So, I would love to express my gratitude to:



Yves Banzet, Pavel Tchesnakoff, Vera Roumyantseva, Violette Noh - for invaluable advice on my texts' grammar and stylistics

Adilya Kassymova, Natalia Bondarenko - for excellent coordination

Julia Kravchenko and Alida Kassymova - for putting down the music of my songs on paper

Denis Zvonilin - for recording my demo disc at his home studio

Yakub Okhtov and Vladimir Korablin - for giving me a guitar for recording session and friendly advice

Igor Koudriavtsev, Alla Senina, Mikhail Melnichenko, Kirill Papacool - my first listeners - for support

Hitoshi Hirano - for letting me staying in his flat, while he was gone. Quite a few songs were written there

Ladies Zena, Melitsa, Codie, Kusok_Sahara, Mantisse, my barber Inna from "City Looks", Julia R., Diana from VGIK courses, Angelica Kozlova, Anna Senina, Natalia Vorontsova, as well as, magical unknown ladies in Moscow metro, fixed-route taxis and Cinema Museum - for inspiration

My parents and Gosha Tretyakov, my former class-mate - for sad inspiration

Gilles Walter and Marie-Aude Robin - for opportunity to show my songs in a Moscow club "Agava"

Rouslan Lemagnen, Emmanuel Durand and Antoine Jesel - for several useful advice and friendly support

Bouterfas - for friendly support

Eugenie - for support and warmth

A girl, named Aholta - for creating and maintaining this site

As well as for distant inspiration:

Film directors: Wim Wenders, Jean Luc Godard, Francois Truffault, Eric Romer, Francois Ozon, Bob Foss, Pedro Almodovar, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, К. Kieslowsky, Emir Kusturitsa, Otar Iosseliani, Andrey Tarkovsky

actresses: Bridgitte Bardot, Michelle Mercier, Jane Birkin, Simone Signoret, Natalie Bay, Hanna Schygulla, Natalia Varley

bards: Serge Geinsbourg, Jacque Brel, George Brassens, Edith Piaf, George Moustaki, Maxime le Forrestier, Michel Sardou, Salvatore Adamo, Claude Francois, Joe Dassin, Mireille Matheu, Carla Bruni, Biork, Sting, Boris Grebenschikov, Bob Marley, Mara

writers: Richard Bach, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Hector Malot, Pierre Gammara, Guy de Mopassan, Kurt Vonnegut, Ilf and Petrov

poets Paul Verlain, Basho, Joseph Brodsky

playwright Tom Stoppard

composer Johann Strauss

painters Henry Matisse, Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte

cameraman Thierry Arbogaste

architect Antonio Gaudi

revolutionary Che Guevara

TV-host Larry King

besides:

groups The Beatles, Depeche Mode, Three Dogs Night

rock-festival in Woodstock

theatre Piotr Fomenko work-shop

films: "Alphaville", "Chinoise", "Sauve qui peut (la vie), "Deux Anglaises et continent", "La chambre verte", "La nuit Americaine", "My nuit chez Maude", "Six contes moraux ", "La robe d'ete", "Regarde la mer", "Les amants criminels", "Les gouttes d'eau sur les pierres brulees", "Sitcom", "Rive gauche, rive droite", "La provinciale", "Mon premiere amour", "En toute innocence", "All that jazz", "Habla con ella", "The bitter tears of Petra von Kant", "Lili Marleen", "The marriage of Maria Braun", "Mostly Martha", "Three colors", "Black cat, white cat", "Farewell, home sweet home!", "12 chairs", "Nostalgia" not forgetiing:

the film festival in Cannes

songs "My Little Fifteen", "L'ete Indien", "Padam Padam", "Tombe la neige", "Master Bo's business"

album "Abbey Road"

prose: "The Little Prince", "Nobody's boy" "Jonathan Livingstone seagull"

poems "Il pleure dans mon coeur"

dictionary Larousse de poche

newspaper "l'Humanite"

computer accessories ZyXEL, Macromedia Flash

football clubs Bordeaux (les girondins), "Metz", "Auxerre", "Tom'", "Roubin", Italian Serie A, UEFA

drinks "Pastis", "Absenthe"

brandy "Otard"

liquor "Quantreau"

magazines "Punch", "Marie Claire", "Rolling Stone"

restaurant of Michel Troigros

garments Mexx, Sasch, Levi Strauss, Calvin Klein, Paco Rabanne

perfumes Noah, Chanel Allure, Lalique

wristwatch Longines

cigarettes Gauloises, Pall Mall, Winston

car Talbot, Jaguar

boats and rafts "Kon-Tiki" and "Ra"

geographical places: Pas-de-Calais, French cities and areas Provence, Boulon, Antibes, Roissy, Lion, Sovignon, Strasbourg, Anger, Le Bois de Boulogne, Quai d'Orsay and Saint Genevieve de Bois in Paris, the cities of Frankfurt, Bremen, Rome, Vienne, Rabat, Saloniki, Petrograd, Petersbourg, Appenines, the 42ns street of New York, the islands of Capri, Ibiza and Bali, China, "Belle Epoque" historical era, ancient city of Urartu, the lost continent of Atlantis, Moscow river, Arbat street, St.Basil's cathedral, the Garden Ring, the Museum of cinema, The House of cinema, Ramstor and Achan supermarkets, Cineplex on Leninsky prospect, Bitza park, Cafe des Artistes, "Night Flight" club

the march of Saint Patrick

other languages: Spanish, German, English, Latin

the years of 1969, 1987

and finally:

Soviet physical culture standards GTO

tea "Assam"

suitcase "Samsonite"

battery Duracell (Ultra M3 model)