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[Alexandr Korol]

also the band Stateless, and their track Inscape, along with tracks from We Fell to Earth – this music was what I wrote a lot of books to, what helped me immerse myself in everything otherworldly. It was what inspired me, what helped me avoid falling under the influence of society. And Rich File – his name is Richard – is precisely that invisible presence. He is a direct example of it – the unseen. In UNKLE music videos, like the one where the guys enter an elevator with a model who later rides a train in an underground metro, that’s actually him stepping into the elevator with the second UNKLE vocalist – just as he is. He has long hair there. And in another UNKLE video, where a drifter walks through a tunnel and gets hit by cars, there’s a moment when a car stops with some guys inside, and in the back seat, Richard is sitting there too. When that video came out, I was still in school, while he was already skating and making insane music. And he is incredibly talented, a truly God-gifted musician who is absolutely antisocial. And because of the pressure of society, of social expectations, or rather, simply from too much attention from people, he later disappeared and left UNKLE entirely. Just so you understand, nearly all the unique tracks, the majority of UNKLE’s music that I listen to – for example, the track “Price You Pay” , which was part of the soundtrack for the film “The Air I Breathe” – that’s his voice, Richard. And he always disappears from everyone because he feels people, he is extremely sensitive. He senses how they think about him, what they feel... and he doesn’t want that attention. I understand him better than anyone. And essentially, it was thanks to my immersion into this nameless space, into the world of “without mind,” into that deep and somber state in 2023, that I entered the world where I met Richard. And through that, I saw the entire world from a different perspective again. I saw all the cycles, how many different personalities I had, just like in the movie “Split”. And that’s why there is “Alternative History”, the unique “Alternative History” that I started working on at that time. Richard and I were working in parallel all along. So, he paid a lot of attention to my books, even though in the end, it didn’t lead to anything concrete, but the fact itself remains. And you see, when I moved into a different world – since I am always shifting between worlds – that’s why I both connect with people and drift apart from them. Because if I find myself in the world of hooligans, they like me, and I like them. But if I suddenly become more enlightened, the hooligans no longer like me, and I no longer like them.