Сергей Вальков (1964—1997)

He would have turned 60 today.

Years ago, I wrote a post on the occasion of the 20^th anniversary of Sergey’s death. What changed since then?

OK, I fixed a couple of dead links in the Russian Wikipedia article. I couldn’t find any “new” photos of Sergey. Apart from the image from the said article, there’s nothing on the web. Nada. How could that be? Repeats of the same bio, repeats of “download all songs of Sergey Valkov”, more dead links.

And then — suddenly! — this. One photo more!

But wait. A few months ago, I came across some posts by the LiveJournal user electrik-220. And from these... links to the audio archives! Several concerts of Sergey, some from as early as 1982. Plus a memorial concert in 2001. Plus some other discoveries. This is new stuff: all these archives were uploaded in 2023^*. The sound quality of most of them leaves much to be desired. There’s nothing we can do about it. This is history.

Now, that I sat down to listen, time rewinds. Seryozha, still in his twenties, steps into the room, takes out his trusty Resonata^† and starts to sing. More like, talk to me.

I’m grateful to all the people (I don’t know any of them) who made this encounter possible. Thank you for keeping the memory and music of Sergey alive.

electrik-220 posts

• Записи из фонотеки «Командора» (Сергея Гусакова): часть 3 and часть 10;
• Перебирая старые CD: часть 28, часть 34, часть 38 and часть 39

Archives

Сергей Вальков (Лещина) / Sergey Valkov (Leshchina): himself, solo

• Домашний концерт (18.12.1991) (из фонотеки Юрия Дёмина)
• Записи у Биг Мака (1985)
• Запись 05—06.11.1990 (МС из фонотеки Ю. Дёмина)^‡
• Запись 16.05.1993 (МС из фонотеки Ю. Дёмина)^‡
• Записи А. Антонова
• И всё-таки мы вернёмся
• Камни падают с неба (архивные записи, 1988)
• Маленький принц (записи 1982—1996)
• Песни Кая (архивные записи, 1990 и 1993)^‡
• Под запись (1988)
• Посвящение Каю (05—06.11.1990)^‡
• Москва—Ярославль—Москва (дом. концерт 09.06.1994)
• Улица Арбат (архивные записи)
• Я — клоун (архивные записи, 1990)

Other recordings

• Слёт команды МИД №3 (18—20.10.1985)
• Вечер памяти Сергея Валькова (Лещины) в Театре Кукол (Москва, 28.06.2001)
• Алексей Антонов: Смешные леденцы [1997—2016] (2016)
• Алексей Антонов: Планета пьёт чай [2CD] (2006)
• Алексей Антонов: домашний концерт «Может, померещились дороги» (19.11.1997)
• Алексей Антонов: Самсебяиздат (199х)

*	The password to open any rar archive is electrik.
†	The East German Musima Resonata, which, in the 1980s, was the best classical guitar I could dream of. Sergey bought it second-hand ca. 1980 for a princely sum of 50 roubles.
‡	Some of these archives overlap. «Посвящение Каю» is marked as recorded on 05—06.11.1990. «Песни Кая» includes songs recorded both on 05—06.11.1990 and 16.05.1993. Two archives «из фонотеки Ю. Дёмина» also contain songs from these dates.