Petersburg text in the album “Resonance” by “Splin” group

Abstract

Petersburg text is expressed implicitly throughout all works of Alexander Vasilyev, the creative leader of the band “Splin”. In this paper we study the phenomenon of Petersburg text in the framework of a two-part album “Resonance”, which was released in 2014. Petersburg for Vasilyev is the imaginative space for a lot of songs. Petersburg cannot be nominated in this texts but it is implicit. Almost everyname “city” in works of Vasilyev is referred to Saint Petersburg. The city and the lyrical subject are in difficult relationship of indivisibility and mismatch interacting with the city, the lyrical subject is split, combining (but not mixing) within itself the collective and individual features.