out now: ‘ministry of secrets’ anniversary edition

dear friends,

on the 6th of april 2015 the first single of the ‘1314’ project came out.

this year i’ve decided to celebrate the good times i had with everyone, who took part in that crazy endeavour, by releasing the ‘ministry of secrets‘ anniversary edition single.

it includes a rare and previously unreleased unplugged live version from our performance for balcony tv.

bogolepov with the ‘1314’ band / Balcony TV, St. Petersburg
/ left to right: Andrian Lebedev, Andrey Yegorov, Gene Bogolepov, Mitya Klochkov

i used to be extremely critical about the way my voice sounded there. now i know and acknowledge – yeah, i could have done better, and i’ve learnt much since then, but the emotion that my voice expressed then.. it’s there, and it’s left there forever. i sing about other things now, and i feel very differently now. and so it must be. this re-issue is a closure i craved after some extremely difficult volatile years.

the song was written in february 2015 with my good friend Andrian Lebedev who tragically passed away in 2021.

i remember the night we wrote ‘ministry of secrets’ – i flew in to st. petersburg in a very depressed state of mind, Andrian picked me up from the airport and took me to his place to take care of me and to support me. i de-frosted a bit and shared an idea for a song: point of view of the ice queen, who forgot how to cry and doesn’t feel anything any more, and there’s a whole ministry in her kingdom that keeps her secrets under seven seals. so we imagined frozen crystals, mesmerising ornaments of them, wind-like synths and a dramatic voice on top. we sat down and wrote it in its entirety in the next two hours after the first discussion. i miss Andrian, i miss those evenings.

this release is out on the 6th of April 2023 and closes the series of singles i have selected for my ’20 years of love and struggle’ project.

goodbye past, hello future.

much love,

gene

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