K.Letova, the Newspaper "Nadezhda: Zhivoe dyhanie" 2003 №2 (23)

First times band "Allegoriya" I have seen at a cinema (then still) "Rossiya". Have stepped on the stage - barefooted, in the embroidered shirts, with guitars and with the unconditional statement:" Slavs and drugs - things an essence not joint". Have started singing. Sang something very beautiful and obviously very Russian; such, know, vagrant gusla players. The action has come to the end, and about "Allegoriya" I have safely forgotten for some time. Has recollected, when has heard about them after "Allegoriya" victory at once at two competitions -"Rossiya molodaya" in Krasnoyarsk and at annual festival of an author's song in Sayanogorsk. And here I at them, sit in apartment and wildly I regret that the newsprint cannot transfer this atmosphere. Music, a guitar in a corner..., and to me show a video topic from competition in Sayanogorsk and something explain about what talents and that author's music already at all that there were... Itself realising nonsense of the first of the prepared questions, nevertheless it I set, though, what here the answer and so all is clear.

- Your music, songs, suits are that, a scenic image, image or something more?
- Yes, it much more.
- In general, music at us is secondary, it seems to me. Not our image was born from an image of group, and the group was born from a way of life. The matter is that we play role games (the people are got up in suits, conjure at fires, strikes in tambourines and other, other...)
- At us every summer there passed game "Slav". It was called differently - "Renaissance", "Alkonost", "Side" - the different historical periods, but all about Ancient Russia, pre-Christian, pagan. We not simply played, we lived it and that will like spirit more, we have decided to prepare songs of that historical period, and the collective working in style ethno-rock was formed. Ethno-rock because in another way the style we can not name yet.
- It is syncretic style. As we cannot recreate music of that time completely. It is all only approximately.
- we do not reconstruct music, and, owing to the abilities, we try to inform to the listener the mythological world of our ancestors. All scenic suits is developed on motives of slavic suits, embroideries and other affairs. Our girls who are able to sew, it have sewed all, and they mo-lod-tsy!

- Except role-playing games and history of Slavs what has still affected your way of life, on your style which has poured out in music?
- If to continue that it is our way of life it was affected, probably, by all our life. At us never arose such thoughts that "here, in a city there is nothing, discos are not present, entertainments any are not present..." Nothing similar. At us the unique problem - is not present, unfortunately, a free time. We with the great pleasure would make so that it was possible to look in a ceiling, to spit in a kinescope... :)
- Still us has revolted, why Americans are not afraid to go in cowboy's shirts, in sharp-nosed boots, and we similar are afraid? We follow the western culture while ours - the huge historical layer and totals a millenium. American - all any five hundred years, and it is a conglomerate from different cultures. We simply wished to make so that it was not a shame to us with us, for our culture.
- Having seen us for the first time, the youth can think: "Hey! There were any strange children, any strange music is played. Something is not present to play pop and quickly to become popular". But we do not aspire to popularity, we - for revival of spiritual traditions.
- "Allegoriya" is an allegory. We simply want here this, to inform to people and if they understand us, it is very good. Instead of will understand - too not terribly.

- Besides a slavic direction what else themes at you are?
- There is a second party of our creativity is a blues, simply blues songs.

- When Minusinsk spectators have seen for the first time the phenomenon of so powerful group?
- For the first time have seen not Minusinsk spectators, but Abakan spectators, and it was absolutely casual. Us have invited to a concert devoted to birthday of dance-band "Second", and we there have sung our "Kupala".

- However, that you were called as"Prashchurovichi"earlier?
- Yes. The name have replaced after festival "Sayany-2002" for the banal reason: Comperes constantly confused an accent, did it on the second, on the third and even on the fourth syllable, named us "Jashchurovichi" then we became "Allegoriya".

- You now write down the first album when it will be finished?
- For technical reasons the album after record of two songs has got stuck. But we very much would like to finish an album till next year. In general, it is begun even two albums - ethno-rock and a blues. But earlier there is nevertheless a ethno-rock album, it is directly torn from soul.

- In the nearest plans...
- Preparation for shootings of a video-clip in the summer in July. To live further.

They are interesting people, сreative and slightly crazy, i hope they will forgive me this epithet. Two hours of conversation (for my part there is more than auscultation) have passed, unfortunately, very quickly.