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Intermediary I. Echo of previous eras, the rave without an end. Kirpichi.

This Intermediary conclude a first part of this short companion. So let`s take our time to sum up all tendencies that we discover in these chapters.

First, of all we dealt with an early period of the big wave. This phenomenon hadn`t yet took on all characteristical features. We will deal with its mature state in next part of companion. So first part was about early prominent group and a character of russian pop.

It was a surge, all seems to appear at once and mostly in a perfect shape circa year 1998. Later it will mature and sophisticate. Now it was fresh and overwhelming. May be it is a clue that is impossible not to notice that the Big wave has arrived. In first part we embrace the conception of the big wave to make a chronology and clarify the changes in russian pop music. The conception of the big wave includes the observation that for the russian pop music a development goes through the tides and ebbs when still periods during which nothing happens followed by blossom periods of great groups and hits. The waves begins and ends abruptly. Just yesterday`s supergroup percieved today completely obsolete. And waves differs from each other completely as a geological eras.

For example Kirpichi is the group that belongs to the penultimate wave of 1989 – 1994, but happens to exist during the last wave of 1998 – 2007. The atmosphere, texts, way of performing all places group in a previous era, but as a living fossil it issued albums in a next one. So its lacking congruity state was obvious to everyone, in spite of they wrote really good songs.

Second, we made an acquaintance with a three-tier structure of russian pop music. It consists of an official scene that suckles on taxpayers money and poisons an air with a hate and stupidity. Next goes an regular show business that tries to produce a new musical product for the sake of money and that sometimes brings a pretty discent results. And third the artists that is wildly popular among all russians or some detached groups of people, but for some reasons never made it to the one of two previously mentioned tiers.

Kirpichi was too good, too advanced, not corrupted, honest, and having lyrics full of meaning, there was no way that they would be accepted by government musical officials. For the show business producers they stayed out too far from the average mainstream entertainment pop. Russian show business`s not sophisticated to dig up hard money, it can sell only for big audiences and only standartized product. But Kirpichi were well known and even more they had a huge dedicated fan base. So the group was in russian pop music but was not on a pop scene or on radiowaves. And that occurs very often.

Third, russian has a great culture. This is not an entrenched isolated national culture, it is a culture of humanity itself. So they have an ability to create the new worlds. Russian pop music produces an original stuff. Had the twentieth century been more benevolent to Russia, it would be a world music mainstream, as it now american, brit, or euro pop are. The big wave`s russian artist create something completely new every time. In previous chapters we`ve already met the boys` band with trip hop hit, an young girls liberation duo, and a classical music as a pop fodder. Not to mention the dance music genius who outshine europop hands down.

Well, Kirpichi was something completely different from all your listening experience. That was rave in an epoch of rap. It could be depicted as slow lazy rap, but there was angry rave outbursts as well. Self indulgence, indolence of raving youth, and an rap men`s contempt to the soceity. To say the list that was really unusual and shaking mix, and in the same time it was very good music.

Fourth, we discussed that the big wave coincide with three major go-betweens which showed up at this time. They shaped the wave and provide its diffusion to the greater audience. It was the students, night clubs, and pcs.

And fifth, to conclude this intermediary, I remember you that we first touched the problem of freedom, how it seems to be the necessary condition of tides and the lack of thereof brings ebbs. May be we will can face this question more thoroughly in a third part. In a second part we will consider a high period of this Big Wave, meet a mature groups of this period, and take a closer look at atmosphere, song`s lyric and music, the video, all the content, message, references, and self identification that are defininng this wave`s russian music.