- EXIT project
Infobox musical artist
Name = EXIT project
Background = group_or_band
Origin = flagicon|RussiaMoscow ,Russia
Genre =Progressive rock ,Electronic music ,Art rock ,Experimental music ,Instrumental ,Easy listening ,Electronica ,Jazz fusion
Years_active = 2001-present
URL = [http://www.exitproject.ru/ EXITproject.ru/]
Current_members = Roman "ROmul" Smirnov (Guitar, Programming)(2001-present)
Oleg Smirnov (Guitar)(2001-present)
Vladimir "Big" Glushko (Drums)(2001-present)
Valery "MIF" Mifodovsky (Promotion, Management)(2001-present)
Past_members = Michael "Kotovsky" Finagin (2001-2004)
Anton Kochurkin (Flute)(2001-2004)EXIT project are an
instrumental progressive rock ,electronic music ,art rock ,experimental music ,easy listening andjazz fusion [ [http://www.last.fm/music/EXIT+project EXIT project – Music at Last.fm ] ] band fromRussia . The band created its own unique style which was labeled as art-fusion . [ [http://freemusic.org.ru/en/taxonomy/term/7 EXIT project | Free!Music project ] ] [ [http://www.o2tv.ru/muz/programs/2007-10-22/prog1/ O2TV — Первый молодёжный телеканал ] ]History
EXIT project was formed in 2001 as an open
experimental music team. "Open" means that when it was formed any musician could join it. The cause was to creat a non-commercial music project. The first linup was: Roman "ROmul" Smirnov (Guitar, Programming), Oleg Smirnov (Guitar), Vladimir "Big" Glushko (Drums), Michael "Kotovsky" Finagin, Anton Kochurkin (Flute) and Valery "MIF" Mifodovsky (Promotion, Management). [ [http://freemusic.org.ru/en/taxonomy/term/7 EXIT project | Free!Music project ] ] [ [http://exitproject.ru/content/view/48/47/ EXIT project. Хорошая музыка. - Участники ] ]The first album of the project was "Live Electricity", released in 2002 by the lable
СD Land Records . Several songs from the album entered different compilations. All the sale proceeds from the album were directed to the WWF program (protection of animals). [ [http://freemusic.org.ru/en/taxonomy/term/7 EXIT project | Free!Music project ] ] [ [http://www.last.fm/music/EXIT+project EXIT project – Music at Last.fm ] ] The album received highly positive reviews from the critics, and the band was identified to have its own unique style. [ [http://www.o2tv.ru/muz/programs/2007-10-22/prog1/ O2TV — Первый молодёжный телеканал ] ]In 2004 Michael "Kotovsky" Finagin and Anton Kochurkinthe left the band, and the remaining lineup released some of their demo-material in a release called Quintet. [ [http://exitproject.ru/content/view/123/64/ EXIT project. Хорошая музыка. - Дискография EXIT project ] ]
The second album of the band, "Hack The World", which used more
Electronic music , was self-released freely on theinternet in 2005 by the declarationFREE!MUSIC 2.1, which allows everybody who wants to download and use the music freely. Some of its tracks where used on the audio-story "Karandash i samodelkin v Egipte", by the project Audio-Theater. [ [http://freemusic.org.ru/en/taxonomy/term/7 EXIT project | Free!Music project ] ] The album became a success, and the music journals "Salon Audio Video" and "Avtozvuk" released the album in a 50,000 copies edition as an add-on to the journal issue. [ [http://exitproject.ru/content/view/123/64/ EXIT project. Хорошая музыка. - Дискография EXIT project ] ] Songs from the album were also used for the audio-showSpace Mowgli based on a story byStrugatsky brothers and in "Peoples book" based onYevgeniy Grishkovts 's "Rivers". [ [http://freemusic.org.ru/en/taxonomy/term/7 EXIT project | Free!Music project ] ]After the success of "Hack The World" the band started an active touring career in different
Moscow clubs androck festival s, includingInProg 2006. During these active tour-career the band played many new material which was described by the critics as art-fusion . [ [http://freemusic.org.ru/en/taxonomy/term/7 EXIT project | Free!Music project ] ] [ [http://www.o2tv.ru/muz/programs/2007-10-22/prog1/ O2TV — Первый молодёжный телеканал ] ]In 2007 the band released their third album, "Mystery Journey of Girl with her Death". The album was released without any early notice on the
FREE!MUSIC web site. The sound of the album was a more distortion oriented and included moretraditional music elements. [ [http://freemusic.org.ru/en/taxonomy/term/7 EXIT project | Free!Music project ] ] [ [http://www.o2tv.ru/muz/programs/2007-10-22/prog1/ O2TV — Первый молодёжный телеканал ] ]On October the 22th, 2007, the band and the performer
Sergey Letov were the first to perform at the program "Brat Jivyom" ("Taking Alive") on theRussia n TV chanel O2TV. [ [http://www.o2tv.ru/muz/programs/2007-10-22/prog1/ O2TV — Первый молодёжный телеканал ] ]In 2008 the band went on a new tour called "Shanti Place", and announced an album will be probably released later with the same name. The band also announced that their live performence with
Sergey Letov in the previous year on the TV chanel O2TV will be released on aDVD . [http://exitproject.ru/content/view/260/2/]Discography
tudio albums
* "Live Electricity" (2002, СD Land Records)
* "Hack The World" (2005, self-released freely on the internet)
* "Mystery Journey of Girl with her Death" (2007, self-released freely on the internet)Other
* "Quintet" (2004, demo-material released)
Trivia
* Though two members of the band, Roman and Oleg, have the same surname,
Smirnov , they are not brothers.Smirnov is the second most common surname inRussia (afterIvanov ), or as they themselves joke about it: "Were not brothers just a rare surname". [ [http://exitproject.ru/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=158 EXIT project. Хорошая музыка. - Разная музыка ] ]
* Roman "ROmul" Smirnov and Valery "MIF" Mifodovsky are among the founders of thefree music non-profit organization ,FREE!MUSIC .
* In 2005PepsiCo released a CD which included a few of the songs from "Hack The World" inremix ed versions. The band didn't like theremix es so much that they asked their name wouldn't be mentioned on the CD. [ [http://exitproject.ru/content/view/123/64/ EXIT project. Хорошая музыка. - Дискография EXIT project ] ]References
Links
* [http://www.exitproject.ru/ The offical web-site] (Russian)
* [http://freemusic.org.ru/en/taxonomy/term/7 About the band at Free Music Project]
* [http://www.last.fm/music/EXIT+project About the band at last.fm]
* [http://musiclook.ru/2006/10/12/exit-project-vyihod-est/ An interview with the band] (Russian)
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