Smislovie Gallyucinacii
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German-Russian Festival
reviewed by Gary Levinson
Smislovie Gallyucinacii (Смысловые Галлюцинации) is a five-piece Russian rock group, that comes from Ekaterinburg. Their name means Thought Hallucinations, and they have been playing together for over 10 years. As their name would suggest, their lyrics are rather intellectual, and at this concert they played some of their most famous songs, including their biggest hit, Why stamp on my love? (Зачем топтать мою любовь?)
The band plays together very tightly, and they have a strong, highly-rhythmic percussion and keyboard dominated sound. The presence and skill of their keyboard player made itself known, especially towards the end of the concert when he took out and started accompanying the lead guitarist with a saxophone.
Their songs were enthusiastically received by the crowd, who sang and danced along to almost every number. One of the songs that stayed with me was Reason Will Win Out in the End (Разум когда- нибудь победит), another was the very addictive Nets (Сети).
They came back for a three song encore, and one of these songs was their one cover version of the session: a rocking cover of Kino’s Mom, we’re very sick (Мама, мы все тяжело больны). This was my favorite song of the evening.
About the venue: The German-Russian Festival is an annual festival attended to mostly by people of Russian origin living in and near Berlin. It takes place at the Trabrennbahn Berlin-Karlshorst harness racing track. What was amazing about this festival was the untroubled non-aggressive nature of the over 60,000 people attending. In addition to the inherently quiescent nature of the people, I attributed this to a complete lack of police tension: on the whole fairgrounds, I did not see even one police or security person, and this lack of official harassment helped contribute to the very peaceful nature of the event. When Russian people get together to celebrate, they do this in a very peaceful, non-aggressive way.
reviewed by Gary Levinson
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