Alexander Viktorovich Kutikov(born April 13, 1952, Moscow) - famous Soviet and Russian musician, composer, vocalist, music producer. Honored Artist of Russia (1999).
He performed and performs as part of several musical groups. He is best known as the bass guitarist, vocalist and composer of the rock band “Time Machine”, of which he was a member in 1971-1974, and from 1979 to the present.
Fragment of a concert at the Moscow Art Theater, 2009. A. Kutikov and the Nuance group Video added with the personal permission of the copyright holder Alexander Viktorovich Kutikov.
Biography
Alexander Kutikov was born into a Jewish family on April 13, 1952 in Maly Pionersky Lane on Patriarch's Ponds, in the very center of Moscow.
Family
Father - Viktor Nikolaevich Petukhov - (12/09/1923), football player of the Moscow "Spartak" and Kuibyshev "Wings of the Soviets" - left the family early.
Mother - Sofya Naumovna Kutikova, sang and danced in a gypsy ensemble led by Kemalov - one of the best touring groups of the post-war period.
Uncle - Sergei Nikolaevich Krasavchenko (born December 19, 1940) - was the chairman of the Committee Supreme Council on issues of economic reform and property, as well as first deputy head of the Administration of President Boris Yeltsin
- Maternal grandfather - Naum Mikhailovich Kutikov (Naum Moiseevich) - (1902), at the age of 14 he left to make a revolution. In 1919, when he was 17 years old, he already commanded a regiment. By the year 1928 he was one of the leaders of the Kamchatka Cheka. Career in the Cheka. He was expelled from the party twice, reinstated twice... The first time he came under repression in the late 1930s, and remained alive only because he was closely acquainted with Alexander Nikolaevich Poskrebyshev and he was only expelled from the party, but not shot or imprisoned, then he became deputy director of the 19th Aviation Plant, now called the Khrunichev Plant, during the war, he worked in the Ministry of Arms, and then received his highest position, Administrator of the People's Commissariat of Aviation Industry of the USSR, this People's Commissariat was headed by Mikhail Moiseevich Kaganovich, brother of Lazar Kaganovich. after the debunking of Stalin's personality cult, he was expelled from the party for working with Kaganovich. He was unemployed for two years, then became deputy head of the trust for high-rise buildings and hotels and was reinstated in the party. Alexander Ivanovich Maksakov helped him.
- Maternal grandmother - Galina Isaakovna Kutikova (Glikka Isaakovna), graduated from the Faculty of Mathematics of Moscow State University, was the chief accountant of the factory in Sokolniki.
Childhood
Alexander Kutikov spent his childhood in Maly Pionersky Lane on Patriarch's Ponds. beginning of quote Until I was 7 years old, I lived in a separate 4-room apartment on Patriarch's Ponds. Grandfather Naum Mikhailovich Kutikov was a very big administrative worker. It’s just that after my grandparents separated, this apartment was exchanged. Everyone went to small rooms. My grandmother stayed to live
Alexander Viktorovich Kutikov (April 13, 1952, Moscow) - composer, bass guitarist, vocalist. Honored Artist of Russia. In the group “Time Machine” in 1971-1974 and from 1979 to the present.
Kutikov was born on April 13, 1952 in Moscow, the son of a Spartak football player, his childhood was spent in Maly Pionersky Lane on Patriarch's Ponds. In his youth he practiced boxing. Sergei Kavagoe brought him to the Time Machine in 1971, but in 1974 Kutikov left the group to try his hand at the Tula Philharmonic. From 1976 to 1979, bass guitarist and vocalist of the Leap Summer group. Then, together with the drummer of this group, Valery Efremov, he enters new line-up“Time Machines” has been its permanent participant since 1979, together with Makarevich and Efremov. In the group he is the author of the music, vocalist, and bass guitarist. He composed the music for the songs “Turn”, “Races” (both together with Pyotr Podgorodetsky), “For those who are at sea” (together with Andrei Makarevich), “In good hour”, “Music under the snow”, “Going down to the great river”, “He plays at funerals and dances” and others.
He worked as a sound engineer at the State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company, and as a radio equipment adjuster. Recorded the first albums of the groups “Resurrection”, “Lyceum” and “Secret”. Still recording and mixing for studio albums group "Time Machine". Student of Viktor Borisovich Babushkin. He runs the recording company Sintez Records. Producer music albums“Time Machines” and the project “Old Songs about the Main Thing”.
In 1987, he recorded his first solo songs, “Let me dream” and “Who’s with me?” based on poems by Margarita Pushkina. In 1990 he released a solo vinyl record"Dancing on the Roof", which was re-released on CD in 1996. The album was recorded in collaboration with guitarist Dmitry Chetvergov and Andrei Derzhavin (future keyboard player of the Time Machine). It consisted of songs based on poems by Karen Kavaleryan. Kutikov himself explained the release of his solo record by saying that he had accumulated a lot of musical material, and Makarevich, who took his work very seriously creative activity, will not be able to quickly write lyrics for new songs. Since December 2003, Kutikov resumed his solo activities, this time together with the group “Nuance”, at whose concerts he performs songs from his solo album and the “Time Machine” repertoire. He performed with the Nuance group at the Phoenix festival in Grozny. In an interview, Kutikov talks about the release of a new solo album.
Solo discography:
1989 (1996 re-release) - Dancing on the Roof (recorded 1990)
1996 - Leap summer. Shop of Miracles
2002 - Alexander Kutikov, The Best. Time Machine
2002 - Happy Birthday! Favorites, volume I. Exclusive gift edition. Project with the participation of A. Kutikov
2009 - Demons of Love
Among people close to the world of Russian rock music, there is a strong opinion that, in their compositional and vocal abilities Alexander Kutikov deserves more impressive solo career. He could achieve more by using his full potential for personal success, and not for collective creativity as part of an albeit cult group.
Kutikov has one answer: “Machine” is his home, “machinists” are family, and he is involved in personal projects no less than others.
Bugler from the Patriarch's
He is one of the most devoted fans of Moscow Spartak. Alexander Kutikov jokes that his love for football and his middle name are all that he inherited from his father. Viktor Petukhov, in addition to Spartak, played for Krylya Sovetov from Kuibyshev. But instead of him, who left the family early, the main man in the family was his maternal grandfather - Naum Moiseevich Kutikov, who lived difficult life nomenklatura worker of Stalin and Khrushchev times.
Alexander Kutikov was born on April 13, 1952 in Moscow near His mother danced in a gypsy ensemble and, obviously, endowed her son with musicality and artistry at the genetic level. The childhood of the future rocker was typical Soviet-pioneer with a formally organized school life from morning and stormy yard life until night, where a strong character and strong fists were a tangible virtue. Boxing classes helped Sasha maintain authority among his friends from the Patriarchal, and training in music school in the class of wind instruments they made life easier at school and at the pioneer camp - you couldn’t find a better bugler.
Finding landmarks
At the age of 14, he first heard hitherto unfamiliar music from a friend - it was The Beatles. One of the Norwegian Wood compositions impressed Kutikov so much that soon the desire to make such music became decisive for him for the rest of his life. There was an incentive to master the guitar, which was helped by classes at a music school.
To start labor activity Alexander Kutikov chose a specialty in a field related to music - sound engineer. Soon he became one of the youngest sound specialists at the State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company. Among those whom he recorded during broadcasts and in the studio were many pop stars of that time: Karel Gott, Helena Vondrachkova, “Singing Guitars”, etc. People with common interests are always drawn to each other, and soon Kutikov finds himself among those who were involved in the birth of Russian rock.
Birth of "MV"
Later, Kutikov half-seriously said that the desire to master playing the bass guitar arose from two circumstances. The first is that there are fewer strings on the bass, and the second is that there is an acute shortage of great bass players in all the groups that have arisen since the late sixties throughout Moscow. He quickly became known as a master bass player. Therefore, when young Andrei Makarevich was looking for a replacement for a guitarist who had gone into the army, Kutikov came in handy. They became friends with Andrey since his studies at the architectural institute, so he joined the team painlessly, bringing into it a major rock and roll spirit.
Alexander Kutikov, whose biography turned out to be associated with “Time Machine” since 1971, left the group several times in order to be its permanent member since 1979. The first departure was caused by a conflict with one of the co-founders of the group, Sergei Kavagoe, because of which “MV” had to be recreated in 1979. In 1975, Kutikov left the group to officially get a job - he was invited to otherwise he would face a prison sentence for parasitism.
"Leap Summer"
After his first departure from MV, Kutikov played in a group created by A. Sitkovetsky from the “wreck” of the teams “Airport” and “Sadko”. The time spent in “Leap Summer” turned out to be useful for the musician. He gained valuable experience working with high-quality musicians, once again appreciated the importance of the poetic component of rock: on his recommendation, VL wrote lyrics for some compositions famous poetess Margarita Pushkina. In the group, he met the drummer, who became his long-time colleague in “Machine”.
The pinnacle of this creative union was the scandalous victory at the 1974 rock festival in Tallinn, where Mashina Vremeni also participated. Then, despite pressure from ideological bodies, the group became a laureate. But two bears are cramped in one den, and “Leap Summer” broke up into “Rock Studio” and “Autograph”, and Kutikov and Efremov, together with Makarevich, became the core of the revived “Time Machine”.
New turn
Andrei Makarevich and Alexander Kutikov, whose photos were present on all MV discs and posters, began working together again. Over the course of more than four decades, the group’s composition has been shuffled many times, but as Alexander says: “These are all our people!” During all this time, he made a significant contribution to the collective creative process. Kutikov is a full-fledged co-author of many compositions with which “Machine” is personified. He composed music for such hits as “Turn”, “Horses”, “For Those at Sea”, “Music in the Snow”, “Night”, “In Good Hour”, “He Plays at a Funeral”, “If If only we were more mature." According to connoisseurs, only the unique Kutikovsky vocals give the performance of these songs true authenticity.
Like other participants in the Time Machine, he accumulates his own musical material and Alexander Kutikov. His discography solo albums began in 1990 with the disc “Dancing on the Roof” and has seven albums. Among them are “The Shop of Miracles” (1996), “The Best. Time Machine" (2002), "Demons of Love" (2009). Started in 2014 new stage in the solo work of the musician. He began to actively collaborate with people who had previously helped him record solo discs. Soon the album “Alexander Kutikov and the Nuance Group” was released.
With and without the "Machine"
He is characterized by many creative incarnations. He is an experienced sound producer who has worked with rock and pop stars: Alla Pugacheva, Leonid Agutin, the groups “Bravo”, “Nautilus-Pompilius” and many others. He released discs with recordings by I. Brodsky and Y. Aleshkovsky. He participated in many television projects, among them the famous “Old Songs about the Main Thing.” He is the owner of a record company.
But, most importantly, he continues to compose and perform good music.
, “Leap Summer”, “Nuance”
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Alexander Viktorovich Kutikov(born April 13, Moscow) - Soviet and Russian musician, composer, vocalist, music producer. Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (). He has performed and continues to perform in several musical groups. He is best known as the bass guitarist, vocalist and composer of the rock band Mashina Vremeni, of which he was a member in 1971-1974 and from 1979 to the present.
In 1974-1979 he played in the group Leap Summer.
Owner, founder and president of the recording company “Sintez records” (founded in 1987).
Biography
Alexander Kutikov was born into a Russian-Jewish family on April 13, 1952 in Maly Pionersky Lane, on Patriarch's Ponds, in the very center of Moscow.
Family
Childhood
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Alexander Kutikov spent his childhood in Maly Pionersky Lane on Patriarch's Ponds.
Until I was 7 years old, I lived in a separate 4-room apartment on Patriarch’s Ponds. Grandfather Naum Mikhailovich Kutikov was a very big administrative worker. It’s just that after my grandparents separated, this apartment was exchanged. Everyone went to small rooms. My grandmother stayed to live
adjacent to the premises that used to be our luxurious apartment. My mother, sister and I first moved to Bolshoi Kozikhinsky Lane, then to Malaya Bronnaya. But these were already rooms in communal apartments. After I had nannies, rations, getting into a communal apartment with 11 other neighbors was a shock, of course.
M. Margolis. "Long Turn"
We visited the Kutikovs' house famous people: Mark Bernes, Pyotr Aleinikov, and famous athletes, among them, Vsevolod Mikhailovich Bobrov. Studied at a music school. He played various wind instruments - the trumpet, the alto, and the tenor saxophone and performed classical music. He was a bugler in a pioneer camp and won competitions. At the age of fourteen he began playing the guitar. In his youth, he was involved in boxing (boxed in lightweight weight at the Moscow Youth Championship and received bronze), hockey and football. He was the secretary of the Komsomol organization of the school, but at the age of 16 he wrote a letter of resignation from the Komsomol. Because of this, I did not enter any institute.
Education
He studied trumpet at a music school and successfully completed it.
Margolis. "Long Turn"
Back in 1970, GDRZ was the youngest sound engineer in the broadcast and field recording workshop. And at the age of 18, he went to broadcasts and recordings of concerts with the participation of stars. They trusted me to record Karel Gott, VIA "Singing Guitars", Helena Vondrachkova and other famous performers.
At the age of 19, he met 17-year-old Andrei Makarevich, then a first-year student at the Moscow Architectural Institute. By his own admission: “We immediately discovered that we had a lot of common musical tastes, including the Beatles.<…>I have always been attracted to people who have a higher intelligence, outlook, and level of education than me.<…>Andryusha was just one of those people. For example, he was brilliantly versed in literature, in particular poetry. When I talked a little with Andryusha, I realized how much he had read, how many magnificent poems he knew by heart, and how much I had missed while skating and running around the yards as a child.”
Solo activities
- - “Monkeys. Garland of babies »
- - “How the monkeys dined”
- - "Monkeys and Robbers"
Filmography
Year Name Role doc "Six Letters about Beat" plays himself f "Soul" cameo f "Start from the beginning " cameo f "Glass Labyrinth" cameo doc "Rock and Fortune" plays himself
Alexander Viktorovich Kutikov(born April 13, 1952, Moscow) - Soviet and Russian musician, composer, vocalist, music producer. Honored Artist of Russia (1999). He has performed and continues to perform in several musical groups. He is best known as the bass guitarist, vocalist and composer of the rock band “Time Machine”, of which he was a member in 1971-1974, and from 1979 to the present.
Biography
Alexander Kutikov was born into a Russian-Jewish family on April 13, 1952 in Maly Pionersky Lane on Patriarch's Ponds, in the very center of Moscow.
Family
Father - Viktor Nikolaevich Petukhov (born December 9, 1923), a football player for the Moscow Spartak and Kuibyshev Wings of the Soviets - left the family early.
Mother - Sofya Naumovna Kutikova (born 02/20/1924), sang and danced in a gypsy ensemble led by Kemalov - one of the best touring groups of the post-war period.
Uncle - Sergei Nikolaevich Krasavchenko (born December 19, 1940) - was the chairman of the Supreme Council Committee on Economic Reform and Property, as well as the first deputy head of the Presidential Administration of Boris Yeltsin
- Maternal grandfather - Naum Mikhailovich (Moiseevich) Kutikov (1902-?), at the age of 14 he left to make a revolution. In 1919, when he was 17 years old, he already commanded a regiment. By the year 1928 he was one of the leaders of the Kamchatka Cheka. Career in the Cheka. He was expelled from the party twice, reinstated twice... The first time he came under repression in the late 1930s, and remained alive only because he was closely acquainted with Alexander Nikolaevich Poskrebyshev and he was only expelled from the party, but not shot or imprisoned, then he became deputy director of the 19th Aviation Plant, now called the Khrunichev Plant, during the Great Patriotic War, worked in the Ministry of Armaments, and then received his highest position: Manager of the People's Commissariat of Aviation Industry of the USSR, this People's Commissariat was headed by Mikhail Moiseevich Kaganovich, brother of Lazar Kaganovich. after the debunking of Stalin's personality cult, he was expelled from the party for working with Kaganovich. He was unemployed for two years, then became deputy head of the High-Rise Buildings and Hotels trust and was reinstated in the party. Alexander Ivanovich Maksakov helped him.
- Maternal grandmother - Galina (Glika) Isaakovna Kutikova, graduated from the Faculty of Mathematics of Moscow State University, was the chief accountant of the factory in Sokolniki.
Childhood
Alexander Kutikov spent his childhood in Maly Pionersky Lane on Patriarch's Ponds.
Until I was 7 years old, I lived in a separate 4-room apartment on Patriarch’s Ponds. Grandfather Naum Mikhailovich Kutikov was a very big administrative worker. It’s just that after my grandparents separated, this apartment was exchanged. Everyone went to small rooms. My grandmother stayed to live
Adjacent to the premises that used to be our luxurious apartment. My mother, sister and I first moved to Bolshoi Kozikhinsky Lane, then to Malaya Bronnaya. But these were already rooms in communal apartments. After I had nannies and rations, getting into a communal apartment with 11 other neighbors is a shock, of course.
M. Margolis. "Long Turn"
Famous people visited the Kutikovs' house: Mark Bernes, Pyotr Aleinikov, and famous athletes, among them Vsevolod Mikhailovich Bobrov. Studied at a music school. He played various wind instruments - trumpet, alto, and tenor saxophone. classical music. He was a bugler in a pioneer camp and won competitions. At the age of fourteen he began playing the guitar. In his youth, he was involved in boxing (boxed in lightweight weight at the Moscow Youth Championship and received bronze), hockey and football. He was the secretary of the Komsomol organization of the school, but at the age of 16 he wrote a letter of resignation from the Komsomol. Because of this, I did not enter any institute.