Текст песни Алексей Архиповский - Колечко

"On the sixtieth anniversary of the guitar company & quot; Fender & quot; He expressed a desire to make a balalaika with an instrument that is more than a century old. And Alexey Arkhipovsky, met with somewhat puzzled applause, spoke out so that the program of the evening would have to be closed. A world-class virtuoso who owns a balalaika is not even perfect, but beyond comprehension, he has tightly closed his quiz; all the technical tricks shown to him, and the music was more inventive by an order of magnitude. The introduction, meditatively stingy and unexpectedly philosophical, opened the hall to a balalaika from an absolutely unexpected side. By itself, the sound of the instrument, repeatedly debased by folk orchestras on salaries, turned out to be in capable hands comparable to the Arab lute, harp, violin, God knows what else - with some unusually high-quality and inaccessible to the ordinary person instrument. Not with a guitar, because everyone was holding a guitar and they know that it does not sound like that. And not with the balalaika, because everyone has heard of & quot; from a distance, the Volga River flows for a long time & quot; and they know that the balalaika doesn't sound like that either. It’s almost impossible to describe his performance: one can only say that at ten minutes both the Flight of the Bumblebee and the whole Russian splint, and blues blinkers, and flamenco, and abstract suspended reflections in the spirit of modern European jazz are packed and ”.

(magazine "Audio Video")