Once the drive to giant fields Kaluga, the Festival "Empty Hills 2008", the first thing you feel accommodated pungent smell of campfire. Bluish smoke spreads over lush grass, and loose fittings hear distant sounds of numerous drums. This - ". Hollow Hills' most famous festival, the smells and sounds the same festival, whose organizers tried as much as possible, to see him off the beaten paths and urban civilizations, and as little as possible on the festival of the" left "folk. But nothing is as it seems. Number of visitors is increasing in arithmetic progression, no matter what tricks and encryption. There is nothing like it in Russia is not, and she tells us on a forest road met the French, nothing of the kind in Europe. Well, after all bonded unguarded surprise. Gathered based on the principles of non-profit festival musicians, none of which appear on the TV screen, and even on the radio does not turn one of the songs here. In this case, it attracts audiences from all over Russia, buses leave from the Ukraine and Belarus, and the foreigners began to appear "in the subject line." Admission to the festival is essentially free. Virtually no police procedures provide volunteers with guards. Impossible to calculate the number of scenes, key scenes - four, but there is still a small and easy built in the woods of the visit. Each year the organizers of enthusiasts their money, without hope that the money back. Mostly they do not return, sometimes it is possible to zero. The most important thing - that the festival was held, for the joy is not measured in rubles. In 2008, according to police and organizers came up to 30-35 thousand. In the past, there were 20 to 25,000, and it seemed to go too far. And two years ago there were eight thousand, and it seemed to go too far. Where is in a position to stop the curve? And here I want to say something inflammatory. The phenomenon of "Empty Hills" seems almost a complete repeat of history, the festival was celebrated Grushinskiy. In the Soviet times, it seemed incredible that people do not go from the TV to tens of thousands of people to hear. And the "bulb" will begin with thousands of enthusiasts, and then hundreds of thousands of people, and then 200,000. Yes, the difference between the fan and the huge hills, especially as musical material. And the style is very polar. But in the Soviet years hiking with backpack and tent in the woods near Samara was healthy and normal countercultural way. That is what is happening now, with tens of thousands of positive people who are not able to. On what they hear on TV and radio presenting current kvazikommercheskom Hype This positive people have the right to what they want to hear. Therefore, they go to the forest. And get. The current conditional formatting "Empty Hills" a traditional "format." The festival crystallized eventually abandoned, the guest stars, which in the past. It was obvious that the audience "Hills" prefers very specific genres reggae, Afro-beat, ethno and world, blues-rock and rock and adult contemporary jazz. The task of the organizers - to high performers in this genre, this is quite a feasible task for specialists to choose. As a result, four major scenes - scenes of fire, earth, air and water - formed genre selection blocks in which were very experienced people. On stage, the fire played prog rock and ethno world. Team responsible for the success of the magazine InProg, and there were musicians like Disen Gage, EXIT project Olga Dzusova, Kaftan laugh Kostarev Group, North East, say, etc. The names of the lovers much. Because the light and sound do not have to complain about the musicians, fans of sophisticated intellectual rock music have their share of luck. Block ethnic music was presented. Enchanting set Stepanida Borisova. With virtuoso throat singing to the point of physical performance memory of many But even Jerry Epstein (USA), Inconnu, nagual, fantastic beauty bird Tyloburdo, Gurzuf, Bugotak, Mila Kikin, Meldis, Anna Hoffmann, NaehOvichi, silver wedding anniversary, etc. It also Russian hymns sounded in an exceptional quartet Olga Aref'eva Adrian Peter Akimov, Elena Kalagina. Security was magic magic star jam with Inna coveted and Seraphin Makangila. Every now and then started to rain, and dancing under the stars in the rain forests of the Kaluga seemed ordinary miracle. African-bits long become a calling card, "Hollow Hills." Along with reggae, it is dance music for positive people among whom the dance well. Therefore distinguish the stage for some of the Earth groups in this genre is how Kimbata, Simba Vibration Marakatu - sun dances on the lawn and people with happy faces is. Reggae and Ska are not far behind: a charismatic Roma VPR, Addis Ababa from Minsk, Pinches Tiranitos etc. Dance till you drop on the green grass ... the renowned jazz pianist Natalia Skortsova succeeded the "Empty Hills" with up to three trains talk. Thin pastiche of Dave Brubeck, a kind of progressive jazz and unbridled passion for the liability of mainstream jazz with a variety of styles - Skovortsovoy extravaganza, otherwise known. But also various scenes were so uvazhemye musicians like Sergey Letov, Umka, Silya, Alissid jazz, Sergey Manukyan, GrAssMeyster Ivan Zhuk, Oksana Kochubei Alex Siluyanov and many, many others. Listen to everything - almost impossible and also not in theory. A scene from "The Hills" - a source of pride for all festival-quality music. But moving between the four scenes are, at a considerable distance from each other - it's not easy. Stuck in traffic volume, shift schedule - all working moments. Despite the agreement with the major mobile operators, none of them have time to prepare for the festival, and on into the early hours of collapsed all networks once. Set on a single network load exceeded all residents Kaluga region once. Sun Hills visitors were without cell phone, which many considered to be the best gift in my life. But what about the music? Not a single music alive Hillman, although this year the organizers were scenes from the public (and many are still sitting at the fires and feel happy) return. For the first time at the festival, there was an art scene. She went to workshops to exotic instruments and rhythmic improvisation, yoga and Taoist practices, performances and festivals full of animation. The program presents Animation Festival "Suzdal" and Indian Cultural Centre im.Dzhavaharlala Nehru. But the most important thing at this festival - a fantastic feeling of freedom and positive. Around - only smiling people. It is unlikely that in 1998, when it came to "Empty Hills" back to the club format, organizers were able to introduce a number of totally free open-minded people in one place. But due to the festival, they will be collected and collated. And to see the limits of this centripetal movement. "Empty Hills" - the area of freedom. Ken Guru, a business newspaper "The View"
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