Alexander Kutikov is a famous musician, performer, composer. The artist has been a permanent member of the Time Machine group for almost forty years. At each performance of the collective, both new songs and hits created by him more than three decades ago are heard.
Childhood and youth
Alexander was born in 1952. The early years of his life passed in the center of the capital at the Patriarch's Ponds. Father - a famous football player, played in teams of sports clubs "Spartak" and "Wings of the Soviets", soon left the family. Mother spent a lot of time on tour in the ensemble of gypsies. Grandmother - a mathematician, a graduate of Moscow State University, worked as chief accountant. Uncle and grandfather held leading positions, one headed the Committee of the Supreme Council, the second led the aircraft factory.
When the boy was seven years old, grandparents broke up, and the family from the huge apartment, where everyone had their own room, had to move. Sasha and her mother were in a communal apartment, where in addition to them, eleven more neighbors lived. Guests at the Kutikovs house were very fond of the guests; famous athletes and artists were frequent visitors here.
The move did not stop Sasha from mastering the school curriculum and making music well. The boy fell in love with the classics, mastered the trumpet, viola and saxophone. He participated in competitions and often won victories. In the summer pioneer camp, he was entrusted with being a bugler. As a fourteen-year-old teenager, Kutikov picked up a guitar. In parallel, the young man went in for sports, spoke at city hockey, football and boxing competitions. At school, he headed the Komsomol organization, but, unexpectedly for all, decided to withdraw from the Youth Union. After that, the doors of all institutes closed for him.
Kutikov became a student at the Moscow College of Radio Mechanics, mastered the basics of radar. But he soon abandoned his studies. The technical school was under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Defense, and the young man did not want to have any relation to the military department. Once he wanted to enter the journalism department, but this dream was not destined to come true.
"Time Machine"
At nineteen, fate brought him to Andrei Makarevich. It turned out that they had a lot of common interests and musical addictions, especially a love of the Beatles. Mutual intellect and horizons admired them. Sasha came to the "Time Machine" and, according to the leader of the group, "introduced the team into the spirit of a major cloudless rock and roll". Alexander did a lot for the appearance of the team in the Energetik Palace, in the place of concentration of metropolitan rock fans. The repertoire of the group was replenished with cheerful songs "Seller of happiness" and "Soldier".
As a result of a quarrel with the creator of "Time Machine" Sergei Kavagoe in 1974, the artist left the composition and began cooperation with the team "Leap Summer". The reason for leaving, according to the musician, was that for several months of work he did not grow up as an artist. In addition, the musicians of Mashiny did not officially work, and this threatened punishment for parasitism. The musician devoted three years to his leap summer. The group toured a lot and participated in rock festivals. The team was distinguished by high professionalism and theatricalization. In 1978, at one of the prestigious competitions for these qualities, the team received the second prize, lost the leadership to Time Machine. A year later, disagreements began in the team, which led to its collapse. After that, Alexander returned to the team of Makarevich and, since 1979, remains a permanent member of the team "Time Machine". The audience knows him as a guitarist, soloist and songwriter. Absolute hits belong to him: “Turn”, “For those who are at sea”, “Horse racing”, “Good morning” and others.
Sound engineer
The first place of work of Alexander was the State Radio and Television. An eighteen-year-old guy was involved in the adjustment of radio equipment and was the youngest sound engineer on field broadcasts and concert recordings of pop stars. Already becoming a famous musician, Kutikov continued his activities in the field of sound engineering. In 1987, he founded his own studio, Sintez Records, on which albums of many beginners and already popular groups were recorded: Resurrection, Bravo, Lyceum, Secret, Rondo, Dune. Frequent guests here were: Alla Pugacheva, Sofia Rotaru, Garik Sukachev, Olga Kormukhina, Viktor Saltykov, Igor Nikolaev, Marina Khlebnikova. The studio specialized in the release of rock music, here all the albums of "Time Machine" and solo projects of Kutikov saw the light.
Solo career
Composer Kutikov wrote his first compositions in 1987, the music fell on the lines of Margarita Pushkina. The musician combined the results of a year's work on the poetry of Karen Kavaleryan into a solo disc "Dancing on the Roof". Friends and colleagues Dmitry Chetvergov and Andrey Derzhavin participated in its creation.
After a long break, Alexander again turned to solo work in 2003. It was a joint project with the art rock team "Nuance". The musicians recorded the album "Demons of Love" and attended several festivals. In 2014, Kutikov and musicians of "Nuance" made a tour of Russian cities. Two years later, his third album, "Infinitely Instantly", was released.
