A dashing company of guitar, bass, trumpet, trombone, violin, concertina and drums treats the audience with an unusual mix of French chanson, Dixieland, country music, Russian folk music and Latin rhythms in the manner of cabaret orchestra. In all concert adventures the musicians are accompanied with numerous suitcases packed with circus and kitchen utensils, bottles of various shapes and content, lingerie, as well as by a merciless Hound of the Baskervilles with fiery eyes, Leech Woman, robbing men blind, Ghost the Motorist, a romantic middle-aged Lady and a Man who got used to whisper. One after another, they immerse the audience in the theatrical chaos of mood.
A dashing company of guitar, bass, trumpet, trombone, violin, concertina and drums treats the audience with an unusual mix of French chanson, Dixieland, country music, Russian folk music and Latin rhythms in the manner of cabaret orchestra. In all concert adventures the musicians are accompanied with numerous suitcases packed with circus and kitchen utensils, bottles of various shapes and content, lingerie, as well as by a merciless Hound of the Baskervilles with fiery eyes, Leech Woman, robbing men blind, Ghost the Motorist, a romantic middle-aged Lady and a Man who got used to whisper. One after another, they immerse the audience in the theatrical chaos of mood.
In the band repertoire there are songs in Russian, French and German. They sound ironic, paradoxical, life-asserting, with elements of buffoonery and puppetry.
The concert geography of the band is as wide as the "authentic" French pantaloons. The whole Belarus danced to the Serebryanaya Svadba’s songs. And not only Belarus ... Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kyiv, Warsaw, Vilnius, Paris, Vladimir, Stavropol, Rostov-on-Don, Taganrog, Krasnodar applauded the musicians. The cabaret band went on tour to Germany, the Netherlands, Siberia and the Urals, Ukraine. It took part in music and theater festivals: the Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts in Warsaw (2006), Empty Hills (2007, 2008, 2010) in Moscow, Metafest (2007) near Samara, Cap a L Est (2007) in Nantes (France), Jazz Koktebel (2009, 2010, 2012) in Koktebel, Ethnomecanica (2008) and Stereoleto (2012) in St. Petersburg, Slavianski Bazaar (2010) in Vitebsk, theWorld Next Door festival (2012) in Kerch, the Jula theater festival in Munich (2009, 2010), the Festival of Contemporary Belarusian Music "Mozhno" in Moscow (2008, 2009) and Minsk (2010-2011), the Color Festival in Crecy-la-Chapelle (France, 2012).
In the bank of the band’s musical experiments there is music to cinema novelties and surprising theatrical performances.
In 2012 cabaret band «Serebryanaya Svadba» released a new album - Laterna Magica. The second studio album got its Latin name in honor of the "magic lantern" – the grandfather of the movie camera, which was popular in the 19th century. Is was the movie of the pre- Lumière era that the priests used to frighten their congregation with, kids were told bedtime fairy tales, and a smart younger generation enjoyed themselves at parties.
When recording the album, the musicians took the liberty of experimenting with sound as much as possible. For example, a tape delay, a device from 1970's, was used for sound processing. There were plenty of such unusual ideas that resulted in a simple effect - small stories-songs differ from each other completely.
The Laterna Magica album is a unique opportunity to immerse oneself into a familiar but forgotten atmosphere of filmstrips. 14 songs from the album are 14 bright and different pictures from the "magic lantern". 14 colorful cards, created like clothes for each of these stories, will make this immersion even deeper!
The Laterna Magica concert program united most spectacular songs-stories. Like pictures in the magic lantern, they come and go as easy as they juggle the audience's mood. A projection-fantasy in the spirit of the magic lantern takes the audience to the Discovery World. But the most important discovery, which has already become history and inspired the musicians to create a new album, has merged in a single show, with the use of new technologies. The musicians use all means to immerse into the world of magic filled with vivid images and phantasmagoria. It is puppets-images, unexpected transformations, musical eccentricity and amazing projection that creates an atmosphere of the magic given by the old “naive" cameras.
Lots of songs from the new album are well-known to the fans of the cabaret band «Serebryanaya Svadba» but in this program they got a new lease of life, if not a new life.
