Oleg Smirnov (EXIT Project) - Intro Scene

Ты просишь на утро, а будешь читать ночью -
Я знаю - вижу твои губы в улыбке... Сочно

Прильну к ним, так чтобы отзывалась дрожью,
И пальцы скользят напряженно, впиваясь в кожу…
 
Я пишу тебе, и мне не перестает это нравится,
Так же как и твое "доброе утро, красавица!"

Каждое утро словами по мне течет твоя нежность.
Я каждое в руки возьму и к губам, очень бережно...

Каждый фрагмент из нашей сказки хранится в памяти;
Со стороны, вероятно, может казаться, что спятила я,

И что белыми нитками насквозь прострочило безумное...
Такое воздушное, что не обидеть бы словом "чувство"... но

Не тебе, про скрытый шифр в понятном для всех, да же?
Я свое "Люблю" к тебе, как поэт, троекратно украшу.

Но все слова такие маленькие, серенькие... им бы смелее...
Ну куда им, до взглядов наших, от которых ноги слабеют...

Сбиваются в кучки галдящей толпой на уровне мыслей.
Мне бы выгнать их прочь, стихами в бумагу высыпать

И тебе отдать, как свиток или как кулек с семечками -
хочешь, себе оставь, а хочешь раздай девочкам,

Пусть лузгают красивое... а я тем временем выменяю
эксклюзивное право на каждую букву в твоем имени...

Sunflower seeds

Recorded in 2017
Lyrics by Alexandra Irbe (Александра Ирбе)
Vocal - Ekaterina Chernousova (Екатерина Черноусова)
Guitar - Roman Smirnov (Роман Смирнов)
Double Bass - Sergey Hutas (Сергей Хутас)
Composed, arranged and recorded by Mike Maximov (Михаил Максимов AKA Mike Osiko) at Mike Maximov studio (СтудияМаксимова.рф www.msound.pro)

To Marina (Марине)

http://exitproject.org/

Je Ne Suis Pas La 

Amazing thing, music. Everything around us is woven of thoughts and names and concepts.  Words are meant and spoken.  Even “I” is a word. We tag and label all the way, and so goes the monologue where “I” and “Me” are names... 

And then, out of nowhere comes the music. Just a few notes – and silence. Through breath it whispers. Then again – a few notes – like a tap on the mind's shoulder. What? - it puzzles you, it makes you stumble, takes you deeper... Again, and the drum beat hooks you up and the inner movement reveals itself, making you aware of the inner rhythms, which are actually there inside you all the time, even though you are preoccupied with thinking... 

And then the big wheel starts turning. You can't ignore it any more... It becomes gross, it stirs up the fire, it spins, it captures you and... all of a sudden, disappears, leaving you stretched in a space of numbness over the thread of a pulsing drum-beat, like a heart. Breath taken, thoughts stopped, feeling enters, piercing the speechless space with a melody. And so goes the speechless talk.

EXIT project - Je ne suis pas la

http://exitproject.org/

The Walk 

The piece owes its name to the bass riff that swings you steadily with great and heavy strides, which are quite mechanical underneath the vigorous and solid theme blown out of a sax and squeezed out of a violin. 

In a sense, it's a walk through the howling noise of time. Something akin to the anthem of contemporary history. The walk that toils through magnificent endeavors and filthy wars, awkward  inventions and farfetched ideologies that blur the outline of habitual meanings of life a man used to rely on. And so the walk itself seems to be the only firm thing left for a man to resort to. And when it stops, covered with soot, the face becomes puzzled, eyes goggling, staring into darkness. And in silence is now heard the sound of the inner world, a flickering flame of a candle in the cave of the living soul.


EXIT project - The Walk

http://exitproject.org/

Inner Monster

This is quite a drama that illustrates our “inner monsters” – dark sides of the soul. The song points to the way to treat them with the remedies of confession, catharsis and compassionate prayer. Because the whole song is a kind of a complete journey, listening to the very end is a must!  

We usually make this song the conclusion of our live performance. So just when the final prayer starts all the musicians simply freeze motionless on the stage and everyone's listening to the words of the prayer. And it's always overwhelming to celebrate the light, relief and excitement that comes at the end – we just feel one with the audience that simply bursts into the storm of happy applause! 

By the way, the low growling and monotonous sound that appears in the middle of the song is a didjeridoo, a wind instrument native to Indigenous Australians which dates back to around 6th century AD, or even before that. 


Buddha of compassion, 
Bodhisattvas in the Ocean of  Measureless Qualities
Please hear my anguish words of truth.
Let the might of your compassion arise to bring a quick end 
To the flowing stream of the blood and tears.
Our most cherished and long-felt desire.

EXIT project - Inner Monster

A demo of the track included in the PoPS update - http://youtu.be/K5omclJfHbo

Orbiting

EXIT project's producer Oleg Smirnov meets multi-instrumentalist Kirill Parenchuk for a very special studio recording. www.son.exitproject.org
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ppFm0KuZaE

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"Moscow’s artistic band sounds like nothing you’ve ever heard before. Their globally inflicted music, dubbed “art-fusion" traverses the world of nu-jazz, electronica, downtempo, and world music realms. They mix the energy of a rock show with the subtlety of a performance recital to provide an extremely engaging result. Ear candy for the heart, soul, and everything in between."  – Alex Brown, SplintersAndCandy

Oleg Smirnov is Los Angeles based composer and music producer, a voting member of The Recording Academy (Grammy Awards), whose professional career started over a decade ago in Europe, when he was commissioned to compose and produce for Russian premiere multi-genre instrumental collective EXIT project. Blending orchestral music with jazz, world music with electronic textures, the band quickly received critical acclaim for introducing its own innovative stylistic approach labeled "Art-fusion". Alec produced several albums for the band, and the EXIT project CDs were released on Russian major record labels CD Land and Soyuz Records, as well as pioneered the innovative digital publishing format "3plet". The overall circulation of the CDs featuring the band’s work exceeds 1,000,000 copies.

In addition to the degree with honors from Boston's Berklee College of Music, where he focused on music composition, arranging, and production, Alec's background highlights a Master of Arts in Psychology.
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Alec is a member of the Society of Composers and Lyricists,  BMI, the Russian Musician Union, as well as a music production expert and judge at the Colisium Music Convention.

A multi-instrumentalist and descendent of the Russian music tradition, Alec Goldwin is a versatile composer, whose work combines stylistic diversity with deep insight, sensitivity, and attention to detail. His music was featured in TV, radio, and theatre productions, media campaigns (Greenpeace, WWF, etc.), was reviewed in major music media (Billboard, InRock, PLAY, etc.), and is available in major digital stores (iTunes, Google Play, Spotify). Alec's work was showcased at 16 national and international music festivals and was performed and recorded by remarkable performing artists. In 2009 Oleg contributed to the album "Orpheus in Exhile" by the British new wave icon Mark Almond, while his 2012 collaboration with jazz and world music artist Kirill Parenchuk led to a multimedia project Son Cherished Most embracing music, visual arts, philosophy, and documentary film. In 2012 the arranging of John Zorn's piece "Meholalot" was welcomed by the the New York avant-garde guru himself.

Among Alec Goldwin's past clienteles are Berklee, Greenpeace, WWF, Museum of Cosmonautics (Moscow), TV Kultura, and some major music libraries.

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