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Cor.: Where did you get such an unusual name for your group? K.K.: We found the name for our group in 1994, when we recorded the album "Son of Man." It happened like this: Sergey Popovich, a famous alternative musician from Kiev (worked with "Rabbota Ho" and "Tanki"), was sound engineer for our albums "Songs of the Covenant of Love" and "The Son of Man". He was constantly joking that Kosyachkov & Co. want to "win everybody over for the sect", and do so at the bidding of Western missionaries. That's why sometimes he sees them as the CIA, and sometimes as Mossad, the Israeli intelligence service. The latter, with several letters changed, was adopted. Masada is a fortress in Israel which was the last stronghold of the Israelites at the time of the Maccabees' revolt against the Romans. For two years after the revolt was supressed, the fortress was still repulsing intensified Roman attacks. Only when all of its defenders perished the Roman army entered the fortress. Now Israeli soldiers take their oath there, saying, "Masada will fall no more." Corr.: How are your songs being born? K.K.: My songs have always been born like children: first conception, then pregnancy and delivery. My songs are born infrequently and inconstantly, periodically. Corr.: Some people think that all Christian songs have monotonous texts, boring melodies, etc. Your team has recorded two albums. What are they about? K.K.: All songs from one or another album always express something important that we wanted to tell people. "Songs of the Covenant of Love" is an album of sincere praise, an expression of the real and first love to God where the most intimate and tender human feelings along with the word of God give birth to a true reverence before the Father. The album "The Son of Man" was the first attempt by "Masada" to tell its message in alternative Christian culture. Contemporary sound coupled with the untouched word of God – in 1995 this idea seemed to be very interesting. "The Good Name" is an album saturated with love not only to God, but also to people who don't know him yet, to our neighbours. Corr.: What is your attitude to the world? K.K.: I try not to stand apart from sinners, not to build church walls, not to close our hearts to other people. That is why our texts are considered "non-church," and Christian audiences sometimes react poorly. Our group has a strong tendency to the "non-applied" arts. Songs must not be an "attachment" to some work, even if this work is good. We honestly sing about impulses of the human soul, the spiritual life. We try to express the very essence of man in a way that can't be expressed in the normal "uninspired" state of man. Corr.: Does it reflect your attitude to music in general? K.K.: We think that music in its higher manifestation is a free and honest expression of all that is deep and intimate, that no words can describe. That is why you cannot tame God's music, you can only follow it. If there is a period in your life when you are not being "guided" you better do some other good things: love God, love your neighbour, do good works, and you will feel good. Corr.: Who is your audience? K.K.: "Masada" today appeals mainly to the progressive and inspired youth. Although most of our audience are Christians, more and more we wish to be heard by all, not only by "our people." Corr.: This sets new tasks before your group. Do you use the mass media? K.K.: In summer 1998, the well-known director Sasha Shapiro (fashionable in movie and music circles, and author of the video "Strange Days" by "The Detonators") shot a video for our song "Today and Tomorrow." This clip won an award as the best music video at the "Crystal Sources" festival in Sumy, and was praised by the media. We had good press, the song was aired on radio and TV.
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