[on his group 'Kontraband' and the cover of their recording 'Mnemosyne'] It depicts a collective-farm worker in the former Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan, half-destroyed by a bomb or shell - the kind of thing I remember seeing as a boy in Russia. I keep looking for these connections between the past and the present. We're almost like a progressive village band. They had a certain sound, and I'm trying to build on that and go beyond.
