… All these, and many more, are his true self!
BECAUSE OUR RUBRIC IS CALLED TEN FOR… AND BECAUSE WE ARE TALKING ABOUT FLORIN CHILIAN, LET US BEGIN PRECISELY WITH THE TENTH QUESTION.
WHEREFROM THE WONDER OF “ZECE” (TEN)?
God only knows that, beats me. But there is a genesis of this song. But before all I would like to make things clear for all the astrophysicists of the world who are having problems with the fact that two stars cannot be parallel. I will tell them that the text of this song is totally is puzzle. And the solved charade of the first strophe is “the light of the eyes”. Thus I want to state that I don’t deal with applied physics, but that I mainly perform an exercise of admiration for the Romanian language – the light of the eyes can be assimilated to a straight line, in quantum form. It’s simple, for God’s sake… When I wrote the song I was staying at my friend, Ivan, the piano player from the band “Parlament”. One morning, after his wife left for work, it was just us, the artists, over a cup of coffee and I was making crosswords.
I had a few definitions left and I would have finished it. All of the sudden, the bastard took the crosswords paper and went to the toilet with it. You can imagine that my brains caught fire. And then I said I would make my own crosswords.
Well, it was all so clear and clean that I changed nothing when I adapted the text to the music. I still have the sheet of paper, all yellow, without any changes.
FOR NINE, WHAT IS NEW ABOUT YOUR MUSIC?
The new album should have been the first. It’s called “Autistul – Nu-l mai goniti pe Brancusi!”(The autistic – stop chasing Brancusi away!). It’s my first project and now it his turn, after 15 years from its birth, because I don’t have the habit of writing nine songs on spot, in the studio, just to release an album quickly. I am talking here about the lack of communication, autism being basically the manifestation of this deficiency. „Nu-l mai goniti pe Brancusi!”(Stop chasing Brancusi away!) comes from the typical Romanian reality, a stupid one, in which a valuable person is never acknowledged here, in his country, except after he is dead or after getting recognition from other countries.
EIGHT YEARS AGO WHEN I LISTENED TO “IUBI” I PERCEIVED A SLIGHT IRONY IN YOUR VOICE, AND WHEN I HEARD CHILIAN TALKING HE SEEMED TOUGH AND A BIT ARROGANT BUT IN THE END I SENSED A HUGE SENSITIVITY. WHICH ONE OF THESE IS THE REAL YOU?
Well, I’m all of them. And each one at a time. Even more, I am each nuance of every way of being. I am arrogant and superior in relation to imbeciles; I’m not ashamed to say it. On the other hand I am damn good but here you can’t make ends meet just with your common sense.
The time for common sense has gone. I don’t want to be ashamed to admit that I am talented and I don’t want to step back and let some scumbag take my place. Sadly, valuable people hide in Romania and all evil comes from that. Honestly, I can’t appreciate my fellow artists who keep hanging around all sorts of ministers. This is our problem; we can’t point a finger and say no to a whore.
DOES THE AVERAGE TRANSITION ROMANIAN KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT BASIC EDUCATION?
Yes. I see it in many of my friends and they are my great luck. We can commune in a balance and comfort of the soul, of sight, of shar- ing. People who haven’t given up on themselves, who know to use this blessed institution of NO. To say no, when something doesn’t suit you, when you see dirt and stupidity… These people have withdrawn in a region of their own, of intimate comfort and I can find myself and balance myself in relation to them. Do never attempt to balance yourself in relation to the society!
HOW MANY TIMES DID YOU SCORE A DOUBLE-SIX ON THE DICE GAME OF LIFE?
Never. I’m not the type of imbecile, pardon, lucky fellow who finds wallets in the street. Well, I wished I were a rich kid, but it wasn’t meant to be. My family was in a totally different sector and I had to g through extremely radical and tough moments at a very young age. I practiced cyclism – a very tough sport – for hunger. I was a multiple national champion at this sport precisely because hunger kept chasing me.
Then I had the chance to meet Valeriu Sterian and Doru Stanculescu whose song, Shambala, changed my life. The second day I put away my sports gear and took up music. Then I worked in a casino. I had money, women, cars, whatever. But one morning I thought: now I will release the album “Iubi”! And I did, after enduring severe hunger.
AFTER THE PAST FIVE YEARS OF POLITICS, DO YOU STILL BEAR TO HEAR PROMISES FOR THE BETTER?
Certainly! It’s all I want – to live better! I relate to words and policies even though I stick to my signed and assumed idea: all the presidents who have led us can go to the recycle bin of history.
COMMANDMENT 4: “REMEMBER LORD’S DAY AND DON’T WORK!” WHERE DO YOU ESCAPE FROM WORK, WHEN YOU DO?
This summer I had the first vacation of my life. A whole month I spent under an umbrella, in a back yard, somewhere in Moldova, at some very good friends. Until then I had no vacation. I was always occupied, solving stuff – my life, food, God knows what else.
ALTHOUGH SEEMS TRIANGULAR, NUMBER THREE LOOKS RATHER ROUND, “THREE SISTERS”, “THE THREE MUSKETEERS”, “ALL THE THREE OF THEM”. WHAT SORT OF “THREE” SUITS YOU BEST?
Once I wrote an editorial called “One plus one equals three”. My point of view is that there is a he, there is a she and there is a result of their unity, the child.
FOR NUMBER TWO I AM GOING TO ASK YOU WHETHER YOU ARE IN LOVE.
I am a lucky man and perfectly honest, I am in love with them all. Yes, I am a man enclosed in the building horizon of four women. All that I am is the result of the life we had together.
NOW, DOWN TO QUESTION NUMBER ONE: ARE YOU NUMBER ONE, MR. FLORIN CHILIAN?
For me, as a private judgment, I can say I don’t give a rat’s ass about hierarchies. But the crazy thing is that we live in a world where these things exist. And as such, I give you my word there is no one better than me in Romania. I am the only man in this world who put the Ten Commandments on music.
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