Sergei Sirowitsch Kawagoe

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Sergei Sirowitsch Kawagoe ( Russian Сергей Сирович Кавагоэ , scientific transliteration Sergej Sirovič Kavagoè ; born June 25, 1953 in Moscow , † September 3, 2008 Toronto , Canada ) was a Soviet rock musician of Japanese descent. He gained greater fame as a keyboardist and drummer for the rock groups Maschina Wremeni , Woskresenije and Nautilus .

Life

Family and school time

Kawagoe was born on June 25, 1953, the son of the translator Siro Kawagoe. His father had studied philology and German until he was drafted into the Japanese army . He was taken prisoner by the Soviets in 1945 after having brought the surrender of the Japanese Kwantung Army as a parliamentarian . After his release in the 1950s, he remained in the Soviet Union, but retained his Japanese citizenship throughout his life. He worked in the Japanese embassy in Moscow and was the author of the new Russian-Japanese phrasebook. Due to his family ties to Japan, he was able to procure modern instruments that had a lasting impact on the sound of the rock group "Maschina Wremeni".

Kawagoe attended a school in Moscow with an English-speaking orientation. During his school days he became a member of the school band "Djuraponowskije parowiki".

Maschina Wremeni

In 1969 he met Andrei Makarevich through his friend Jri Borsow . His father was a Japanese Ace Tone - Organ procure what Makarevich and Kawagoe the school band "Time Machines", later changed to "MASHINA VREMENI" put on their feet. The band quickly gained local fame. Over the next ten years, the band gained Union-wide popularity, but remained underground due to the restrictive cultural policy of the Soviet Union. The line-up of the group changed frequently, Makarewitsch and Kawagoe remained the only constants. In addition to the keyboard instruments, Kawagoe also supplied the band with electric guitars from Japan. Kawagoe proved to be a versatile musician, he temporarily replaced the bass guitarist and finally switched to drums.

In the first half of the 1970s, Kawagoe tried several times to begin studying at Lomonosov University in Moscow , but each time he broke off the course after a short time.

In the second half of the 1970s there were increasing differences within the group, which eventually dissolved in 1979 due to the differences of opinion between Kawagoe and Makarevich.

Voskresenije

Immediately after the separation, Kawagoe formed the band "Woskresenije" with Yevgeny Margulis , Alexei Romanow and Makarewitsch. Like Makarewtisch, Margulis came from "Maschina Wremeni". Romanow had previously played with Maschina Wremeni, but left the band in 1975 and together with Makarewitsch founded the band "Опасная зона" (German "danger zone"), which was renamed in 1976 to "Кузнецкий мост" (German: "Kusnetzki-Brücke") . In addition to his roles as a drummer and initially keyboardist, Kawagoe actually became the group's producer . Due to the history of its members, Woskresenije was considered a Soviet supergroup , but dissolved again in 1982.

nautilus

Kawagoe then founded "Nautilus" in 1982. He managed to get Margilus to work. After recording a record - which, however, could not be published - the band fell apart very quickly, as Margilus had been banned from performing since 1982. A 1985 revival was also short-lived, this time due to competition from Nautilus Pompilius . In 1986 the band was finally dissolved.

Aerobus

From 1983 to 1984 Kawagoe played with Margilus in Aerobus , Yuri Antonov's backing band , and then in a Roma orchestra .

Living in Japan and Canada

Kawagoe gave up music completely in 1989 and moved to relatives in Japan in 1993, where he taught Russian. However, he did not find employment at the Institute for Russian Language immediately, so that he first had to make a living as a seller of CDs . In the last two years he combined his position at the institute with a job at the radio . However, obtaining a permanent residence permit in Japan took a long time. The cooling of Russian-Japanese relations led to a decline in the number of students learning the Russian language. Given the problems of making a living, Kawagoe decided to emigrate to Canada with his family.

However, Kawagoe could not find work in Canada. On the night of September 3, 2008, he died in the bathroom of his apartment. The cause of death was acute heart failure due to thromboembolism .

Kawagoe was married twice. He left two sons.

memory

His band colleague Evgeni Margilus dedicated the song рок-н-ролл , German Rock'n'Roll, to him. In his song Сакура, катана, сакэ , which he wrote during the time of the band Shanghai , Margulis also reminds of Sergei Kawagoe.

Discography

  • 1969: Time Machines , not published
  • 1971–1974 Записи "Машины времени" в Государственном доме радиовещания и звукозаписи (Sapissi "Maschiny времени" , not published by the State
  • 1975 - Запись "Машины времени" для программы "Музыкальный киоск" (Sapis "Maschiny wremeni" dlja program "Musykalny kiosk", German recording for the program "Musilakl ") not published
  • 1978: Это было так давно (Eto bylo tak dawno, German "That was so long ago")
  • 1979: Воскресение 1 (Woskressenije 1, with Woskresenije )
  • 1984: Наутилус (Nautilus with Nautilus )
  • 1995: До свидания, друг! (Do swidanija, drug !, Ger. "Goodbye, friend!" With Shanghai )
  • 1996: Неизданное (Neisdannoje, German "unpublished"; rarities from the 1980s)

Movies

  • 1975 Афоня (Afonja)
  • 1976 Шесть писем о бите (Schest pissem o bite)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Сергей Миров: «Воскресение». Книга о Музыке, Дружбе, Времени и Судьбе , АСТ, 2017, ISBN 978-5-17-098957-7 , p. 5 (Russian)
personal data
SURNAME Kawagoe, Sergei Sirowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kawagoe, Sergei (full name); Кавагоэ, Сергей Сирович (Russian); Kavagoè, Sergej Sirovič (ru-Latn)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet rock musician of Japanese descent
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow
DATE OF DEATH September 3, 2008