Ilya Orlov in English

Lots of great photos by Alex Belov from May concert in St. Petersburg! Many thanks to all participants!

Be happy!



Yours Baba Yaga!
(photo by Natalya Pogorelaya)

Photos by Polina Golikova (punkgazetka.ru)

Video "Lion and barber".

More photos from the concert in Bilingua in the journal of Marina Fedoseeva.

Thank you all for a great concert and for the feedback, it was very nice and I don't even know how else to say, exciting, and at the same time it adds confidence. I've read your notes at home once more, poems that were not read at the concert - the poems are good, so are the notes :)



I am glad that many people liked the album, I saw different reviews and opinions. It's great, that everyone has his own feelings and expectations of it. Personally, I like these songs because they are life-affirming, there is more joy and ease in them, after listening to such songs you find relief.

After the release of the album, I finally plan to take up a lot of things that have long been waiting for attention. I won't announce anything before time, so that I don't reproach myself later, but I hope to be able to publish something interesting here from time to time. I think that you too should have lot of plans and ideas, so let them become implemented making everyone happy!

Soon it will snow, the beauty and silence will come, so that we can walk in the countryside, look at the starry sky and white trees. Later drink hot tea in the cozy company, watch old movies and go to bed.

Maybe everything will be totally different, but still good :)

Be happy and see you soon!

Me, like many others, follow with interest the victories of our national team at the Olympics in Beijing. The other day was an occasion to rejoice for Olga Kaniskina, before that for Elena Isinbayeva and for other our athletes, they are great! Opening of the Olympics was fantastic, too. But this is not the only sport event that is held in August!

On the weekend before last a competition called "Swamp Olympic Games" took place in Karelia, near the Olonec in a place named Semiozerie (Seven Lakes). I had pleasure to spend two days there, and I must say that it was unforgettable.

This event is held there for five years and collects a lot of people who come from Karelia, St. Petersburg, Moscow, to rest actively in nature and compete for titles and prizes. Most importantly, all is very well organized, goes in a good mood, so the impressions are the most pleasant. To at least partly illustrate that, I apply a small video clip from the movie filmed there.



In addition to wrestling and football in the swamp, there were also competitions in running, javelin, orienteering, volleyball, table tennis, badminton, rowing, swimming, darts and other sports. On the second day - competitions on hiking techniques, swimming, as well as awarding the winners and summing up. Besides, there were amateur performances, as well as various tourist's leisure things such as a scrumptious meal, cooked on a fire, fragrant tea from herbs and berries, pure water from the lake. At night - the sounds of a guitar around the campfire and a nap in the tent.



Thanks to Olonec residents for the invitation, to the organizers and participants for the good impressions!

March 8, 2008; Moscow, club "22".
Thanks to Vika for the great photos.


March 1, 2008; Voronezh club "City", BER-LINN.
There is a lot more great shots in Ksyusha livejournal. She is a whiz and a good photographer.


January 27, 2008; St. Petersburg, Club "Revolution".
Photos from BER-LINN concert by Inessa, thanks to her!

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P.S. Friends, keep up, it'll be warm soon!

Hello, friends!

How are you? I'm in a good mood, it's late night at the window now (as I write this), I was going to go to bed, but decided to first share with you a little news and report how I am.

January went insensibly fast. I met New Year in the company of friends, it was very creative, fun, delicious and without the TV. We stood on the chair, recited poems, received gifts, ate, drank, played different roles, listened to songs and talked on Skype with abroad. After such a great holiday, I spent a couple of days in a wrong mood, so I was tired of fun. Thank you my dear friends!

At Christmas I went to Tver, there was a joint concert with a band XO'KEY, where I was raised as a "special guest". In addition, we recorded a song together that we are going to present to you soon! The song will be vigorous, I wrote the music and lyrics, and the guys helped with the arrangements and played it, so it turned out great. I hope that you'll enjoy it. We want to connect this issue to a charity, all the details will be known in a couple of weeks.

Together with Ilusha Smilga we opened for ourselves the new sides of fairy-tale art works. We recorded a few new series for "Orlov & Smilga Show", after a while I'll choose the best (worse) of them and share with you in the next release. Ilusha is very talented (I mean Smilga). He can do a lot of things: draw, sing, read fairy tales, project a professional 3d models. Take a look at www.smilgadesign.ru

BER-LINN played a few gigs with a new bassist, his name is Kostya, we asked him to play with us while Buslik can not. Kostya helps us not for the first time, we played with him in Sevastopol, Moscow, Novgorod. Thanks to all who come to our concerts! You support us a lot, without you everything would be different. We are pleased to see both familiar and new faces in the house.

In the past weeks a lot more good things did happen, I visited the children's performance, met with new interesting people, watched a few movies, among them were the "Train to Darjeeling" and the first season of "Heroes" (be careful with the series, they are very long to end). We met with friends, walked over St. Petersburg, I saw what a strong wind could do - drop the scaffold at the Millionnaya street and cut off the street light wires. I visited friends, read books, had the unfortunate experience of washing white t-shirts together with the red one, was disturbed, sometimes happy, composed music, ate, slept and worked.

What is to be expected soon?
The new song with XO'KEY, audio and video from a concert in Tver and the good news.

When is my next concert?
March 8 in Moscow club "22", together with the bands "One girl for two (Odna na dvoih)", "Summer Days", "Container 35" and "Fool's Paradise (Rai durakov)"
http://www.lastfm.ru/event/495884

What else good?
I made a page on myspace - http://www.myspace.com/ilyaorlov
and put on the site tabs and chords to some songs - http://www.ilya-orlov.ru/tabs_n_chords

Thanks everyone for your attention!

Ilya


I've a got a mustache as a New Year's gift. Photo by Andrey Kovalev (ckovalev)

Small video from "Bookvoed".

Download FLV (20.5 Mb). Thanks to Albina and Sergei for filming.

A few photos:


by typicalugly


by kaffepause


More photos: http://picasaweb.google.com/ckovalev/IlyaOrlovBukvoed - black and white series from Andrey Kovalev ckovalev

On the weekend before last we were filming the video for the song "City", it was fun and cold :)



Thanks to Kate and Andrew crash_dragon ckovalev for pictures, and all the other guys for the help and participation in the shooting.

Several photos can be found here. A clip can be seen in some time!

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