Hallow. How do you do. I’m Pavel Vasilenko, a Moscower, journalist, unmarried. I am going to be the host of the new rubric - Let’s Talk, Let’s Chatter.
Am an admirer of Lisa’s art, and in the past I used to write some materials about her – both for mass media and for her site. By the way, I liked it immediately very much. It is really pleasant to visit its pages. This summer I, quite unexpectedly, discovered, that when I return home from my job and get back to my cheerless bachelor’s flat, I tend to rush to my computer to visit Lisa’s site, for it is there that I feel comfortable and really at home. I feel well there - like many other regular visitors, I think. Well, really: can you tell me, on what other artist’s site you can get acquainted with his/her meditations and reflections, to tell nothing about reasoning on different urgent topics? What other singer would tell you why this or that song was written? How it was bourn? What kind of appeal has it? How the singer understands these or those values, common to all humankind?
When Lisa’s producer suggested me to be a host of this new rubric, I got happy, though a have enough job to do, to put it mildly. I just want to take part in this musical project (which, I am shure, will become famous one day!), but I told the producer at once that a can agree only if I have a free hand to describe Lisa Monde not only as a musician, singer and so on, but also as a “material girl”. For it is a known PR method – to ‘freeze’ information, to veil it, etc; but still, if some artist wants to attract attention of public, he or she should let others talk about him/her. I don’t mean washing dirty linen in public, of course, as it often happens - not without some help of my colleagues, - but you should just tell the consumer about the “producer” of the musical stuff he/she may “consume” – that is about composer/performer/singer.
I happened to socialize with Lisa Monde only a couple of times before now, and each time it was a duty-bound meeting. That is why I am looking forward to our real acquaintance. As soon as she comes back from London, where she is doing a vocal master-class, we are meeting at her country house in order to have a good talk over a cup of tea. If you wish me to be quite honest, I will tell you, that I asked her to invite me there with some intention. I heard a lot of stories about Lisa’s pets and domestic animals, including tales of her little sheep, which became the main character of her first clip, made on her song Berceuse. I promise to tell you about everything that I will see with my own eyes. If I do not see anything, I will also tell you about that, by all means. The only thing I can promise is the most detailed interview with Lisa Monde. Anyway, I am getting prepared to it, inventing some most cunning questions - which, Lisa seems to like, for she makes an impression of a girl who is able to appreciate quite tricky stile of an interviewer and some singular eccentricity of his approach.
Pavel Vasilenko.