
At the end of 1998, MGI and the singer Olga Rojdestvenskaya recorded a remake of the old romance "Chrysanthemum". Olga is known for performing the aria of the Mother of God in the recent remake of the rock-opera "Junona and Avos" by Alexey Rybnikoff and a few other projects including her own, and at the age of 7 she sang for many kids movies, including the hit "Little Red Riding Hood" by Rybnikoff.
The stylish athmospheric arrangement of the Les Chrysanthemes was a phenomenal success. All the filigree vocal and backing vocal parts were arranged and recorded by Olga herself. Shortly after, the french label Pschent released the remake on a compilation "Hotel Costes 3-me etage", the compilationsn Costes sold 500 000. At the same time Arcadiy and Boris kept on working actively within Moscow Grooves Institute.
Gradually, thoroughly, the material was being chosen for the album. "To gather an album full of material turned out more difficult than we thought, - says Olga Rojdestvenskaya, - we had to try lots of songs". "We didn't want to get below the standard we had set for ourselves, - adds Boris Nazarov, - it was often the case that, having finished the song in the evening, we woke up to find it hadn't actually come off well, and started anew".
In the spring of 2003 MTV started playing a stylish video for "Chrysanthemum", directed by Ilya Smolin . In April an eight track maxi-single was released, featuring, besides three "Chrysantemum" remixes, remakes of romances and songs "Ryabina", "Solovushka" and "Waltz".
In October 2004 Citadel Records has released new album of the project Na Zare. It is a first long-play of the trend project, well known with their first hits in neo-romantic style. It contains electro-versions of traditional songs and romances, themes from Russian and foreign classics and original tracks of the project. Elegant musical accomplishment pays much attention to the sole sensitive vocalist part. A video filme for "Na zare" is included.
