Oleksandr Seleznyov, a soldier

of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

, writes music and plays it on all types of weapons that come into his hands.

We are talking about both domestic and foreign weapons. 

How to keep the rhythm on the caliber 5.45 - in the story of

TSN

.

A thimble, a wedding ring and a Kalashnikov assault rifle - these are all the tools.

The main thing is to keep the rhythm and improvise, convinces the author Oleksandr Seleznyov.

"Music is not born from an instrument. It is born in the head of a musician, in the head of an artist. Also, what you create it from is your personal desire, your fantasy," says the Ukrainian military man.

Oleksandr started playing the slot machine out of longing.

He stood for hours on chats, and the musician's hands tapped out the melody out of habit.

"I didn't play the drums for more than a month, maybe even a month and a half. And before that, I lived my whole life only by music. I already had such a longing for music. I had this machine and I started tapping on it, I decided to sing for myself" Oh, there's a red viburnum in the meadow," he recalls.

It was from this composition that everything began.

Oleksandr recorded a video, and thousands of views showed that people like this kind of music.

After that, Oleksandr recorded a dozen more compositions using different parts of the machine gun, grenade launchers, and even shot pipes from javelins.

Ihor Belov delivers him weapons that can be tapped.

Officially, this man is a developer of fire training systems.

He has a lot of weapons in the center, although deactivated.

"It's a deactivated weapon. It doesn't fire anymore, but weapons must be used according to certain rules. Knowing that Sasha is a creative person, I asked him how I could help. After that, we went to our workshop, he looked at everything that could make some sounds." - told Igor Belov.

Oleksandr is a professional musician, works with well-known performers of Ukraine.

There is no thought of a solo concert on weapons yet.

But he says he might do some acoustic numbers later.

The most famous rhythm is ready to knock on the door of a bunker, somewhere deep underground in Russia. 

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