Mikhail Konstantinovich Shcherbakov

Mikhail Shcherbakov

Michail Konstantinowitsch Schcherbakow ( Russian Михаи́л Константи́нович Щербако́в ; born March 27, 1963 in Obninsk ) is a Russian poet and songwriter.

He was born in the town of Obninsk in the Kaluga region, the first poems and songs were published in 1978. Shcherbakov has lived in Moscow since 1982, from that year he studied at the Philological Faculty of Lomonosov University in Moscow until 1988. He has been a professional poet since then and songwriter.

He either appears alone (with an acoustic guitar ) or with Michail Starodubzew (acoustic guitar, backing vocal). The recordings for albums are also made with the participation of Starodubzew, mostly with the synthesizer . Sometimes Shcherbakov also takes part in the recordings and concerts of Juli Kim .

Albums

А . "Number albums" ( appeared on cassettes in the early 1990s , almost all of them were later reissued on CD ):

• 1 - songs from 1981–85, recorded in 1985
• 2 - songs from 1983–86, recorded in the early 1990s
• 3 - songs from 1987–90, recorded in the early 1990s
• 4 - songs from 1988–90, recorded in the early 1990s
• 5 - songs from 1991–93, recorded in the mid-1990s
• 6 - songs from 1989–94, recorded in the mid-1990s
• 7 - songs from 1993–94, recorded in the mid-1990s
• 8 - songs from 1982–95, recorded in the mid-1990s

B . CDs released in the mid-1990s (almost all songs were re-recorded in later albums):

• The cherry jam (1994) - songs from the years 1983-88, recorded in 1990 (record company "Melodija"), acoustic guitar
• The Other Life (1994) - songs from 1986–94, recorded 1993–94
• Der Rummel 2 (1996) - songs from 1983–93, recorded in 1996, (“Otdelenije Wyhod”), acoustic guitar
• Die Stadt, die Stadt (1996) - songs from 1993–95, recorded 1994–95
• That should happen (1996) - songs from 1986–94, recorded 1992–95 гг.
• The Magic Spell (1996) - songs from 1982–95, recorded 1992–95
• Exegi monumentum (1996) - songs from 1985–91, recorded in 1996
• A Whole Season (1997) - songs from 1995–96, recorded in 1996

C . New albums (with the synthesizer):

• The Misstep (1999) - songs from 1997–98, recorded in 1998
• Déjà (2000) - songs from 1998–2000, recorded 1999–2000
• Wenn (2003) - songs from 1999–2002, recorded in 2002
• Die Kreisstadt (2006) - songs from 2003–2005, recorded in 2005

D . Archive recordings:

• Das Chanson (1999) - songs from the years 1981–83, recorded 1983–85, edited by Igor Gryslow (on the cover is written “published with the author's approval”)
• The tireless ark 1 (2001) - songs from 1983–90, recorded 1987–90, acoustic guitar
• The tireless ark 2 (2001) - songs from 1983-90, recorded in 1990, acoustic guitar
• Der Rummel 2 (2001), new edition of the album "Der Rummel 2" (1996) with bonus tracks (6 songs, recorded in 1996)

E . New recordings of old songs (with the synthesizer, except for the album "Selected Works, Part 2"):

• Selected Works, Part 1 (1999) - Songs from 1982–96, recorded in 1999
• Selected Works, Part 2 (2000) - songs from 1983–99, recorded in 2000, acoustic guitar
• Once (2002) - the new version of the album "Die Stadt, die Stadt", with the bonus track (1 song), recorded in 2001
• On foot from the east (2004) - songs from the years 1982–1995, recorded in 1999 (the one from the album "Selected Works, Part 1") and 2003
• Let's assume (2004) - songs from 1982–1995, recorded in 1999 (the one from the album “Selected Works, Part 1”) and 2003
• A Whole Season (2005) - the new version of the album, recorded 2004–2005, with bonus tracks (3 instrumental compositions, created from the songs of the period 1980–1984)

In 2003 an album by Shcherbakov was released in the series "Russian Songwriters" on the Moroz Records label .

Path of creation

1) 1978-1981 - More than 100 songs have been created. The majority of them are described by the author as "nonexistent", none of them belong to today's repertoire.

2) 1982—1988 - About 100 songs were created, 80 of which were later released on CDs, around 20 songs from this period are sung in concerts, sometimes with apologies for the inadequacy of the lyrics. There are 10 poems from this period that have not been set to music.

3) 1989-1995 - Around 130 songs were created, 128 of which were released on CDs. The books “The cherry jam”, “There is and there was no poison” (both 1990), and “Another life” (1996) were published.

4) 1996-2005 - About 80 songs were created and published in spring 2006, in addition, new recordings of 120 older songs were released.

5) 2006-2008 - 12 new songs were written and sung in concerts. The book "13 Disks" has been published.

Web links

• Unofficial website of Mikhail Shcherbakov