EUHARISTO GAIAVassily K. is a Russian musician, singer and songwriter. He started up on the local rock scene in Murmansk, the very North of Russia, studied electric guitar at the local music college and in 1998 moved to Lund, Sweden. There he studied musicology at the University of Lund and became aquainted with some Swedish musicians. Former members of the experimental band Kurten have become his near friends and long-time collaborators. Together, under the name Vassily K. & the kurtens, they recorded several albums which were released between 2001 and 2006 in Russia on various indie labels. Now he lives in Moscow, where he founded his current band, Vassily K. & The Intellectuals.Vassily K's music is distinctly eclectic, embracing a wide range of styles, from the intimate acoustic singer-songwriter approach and mainstream guitar rock to atonal and minimalistic experiments. The poetic side is also important, he writes mostly in Russian, with occasional drops of English and Swedish.There is a lot of free downloads of different unreleased tracks on Vassily's homepage: http://vassilyk.com/MUSIC/index2.htmTogether with Kirill Komarov, a brilliant singer-songwriter and poet from St.Petersburg, Vassily K. created a unique project named Ropes, which includes a record under the same name, released in 2006 on their own label OpenMind records, and a special way of performing where the intimate and the universal, the sonic and the verbal meet in shifting, momentary and unpredictable landscapes of "non-fiction music". It summarizes the search for deliverance and freedom that the Western culture, as well as the quazi-Western ones, were obsessed with since the end of the 19th century, including perspecitves on the crippled shapes of the today's expressions of the human's unhealthy need for exposure like blogs and reality shows. Those who are present on the concerts use to participate, one way or another. Nothing is ever repeated in these shows, and one of them that took place on a Moscow radio station "Eho Moskvy" is free to download: http://merkurov.ru/misc/argentum/uploadFiles/2006/verevki_12 8_www.liveargentum.tk.mp3.
