ALEX GRATA
(Vocals, Piano, Synthesizers, Loops, Electric and Acoustic Guitars)
“Progress? What the fuck’s progress that destroys our living planet? And the fact that Planet Earth is alive, I think that no one has any doubt about this. Can a human being be called rational if he behaves in relation to the world around him, like a Neanderthal man. and even worse! Birds fall on the fly and die. Whales continue to commit suicide. Bees are dying. Dry up the river. Beautiful forests are disappearing. Who are we after this? Wild, foolish, unscrupulous, soulless two-legged creatures. And if we don’t come to understand all this disaster, if we don’t open our eyes, what do we leave to our children? desert, airless space with black water of oil and imminent hunger. People, let’s change ourselves and the life around!”
It was the Voices of Babylon (VOB) project that introduced Alex to Mark from Unitopia, when Mark recorded a track for the VOB project. The song was ‘Forgive Me My Son’, and was written by Alex several years ago. The VOB and UPF versions of the song have different arrangements.
While Alex Grata was growing up, every day after going to school in Vorkuta Music School in the North of Russia, he stayed at home listening to Pink Floyd, Camel, UK, trying to imitate those bands – singing and playing electric guitar for hours. Alex began self-learning rock vocals using intuition and audio and video instructions. His style of music is best described as an experimental rock with elements of hard rock and even metal rock and rock art of that time.
Today it is possible to single out several of Alex’s groups, such as Sixth Sense, playing modern melodic metal, G.R.A.T.A. band, and the international progressive rock project Voices of Babylon.
