“Songs of Sailors” is a solo album by Russian rock musician Alexander F. Sklyar , released in 2008 by Soyuz Concern. The disc covers a cycle of songs on the marine theme, a cycle that subsequently continued in the form of the second part , where songs of other well-known authors are no longer performed, but their own composed compositions.
| Songs of Sailors | ||||
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| Studio album Alexander F. Sklyar | ||||
| Date of issue | November 10, 2008 | |||
| Recorded by | 2008 | |||
| Genres | alt rock , russian chanson , russian rock | |||
| Duration | 49:54 | |||
| A country | Russia | |||
| Language of songs | Russian | |||
| Label | Union | |||
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| Chronology Alexander F. Sklyar | ||||
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The album was recorded shortly after the collapse of the Va-Bank group with a new composition of musicians, as Sklyar himself noted on this occasion: “Each of the musicians of my new composition is a musical universe that can reproduce any rock and roll sound, significant sound. The guitar plays in such a way that it convinces me. I hear the drums and I have nothing to say. ” The presentation of the disc took place on November 3 at the Moscow club “16 tons”, the release took place on November 10 [2] .
The idea of the song “Betrayal and Smuggling” arose thanks to the novel “ Queen of the South ” by contemporary Spanish writer Arturo Perez-Reverte , which contains the phrase “Betrayal and smuggling, you cannot share them with anyone.” In the text, in addition, the favorite Sklyar character Vasya-Conscience is mentioned - earlier three songs were devoted to him, and later a whole album of the same name was published [3] . The song “ Mom, we are all seriously ill ” by Viktor Tsoi , which Sklyar mastered back in 2000 for the KINOproby project, is somewhat out of the general concept of the album. The disc also has a secret soundtrack “Three zero six”, not included in the official track list and starting after a two-minute pause.
Dmitry Bebenin in a review for the site Zvuki.ru called the album “a program for those who are ready to accept a life free from land conventions and commonplace” [4] . The reviewer Denis Stupnikov in his review considered this work successful from a marketing point of view, while the conceptual component, in his opinion, is not so strong here [5] .
List of Songs
The words and music of all the songs were written by Alexander F. Sklyar (except the one noted).
| No. | Title | Duration | |||||||
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| one. | "I'm flying" | 3:22 | |||||||
| 2. | "Do not Cry" | 3:21 | |||||||
| 3. | "Songs of sailors" | 4:28 | |||||||
| four. | “Ships do not sink” | 6:32 a.m. | |||||||
| five. | “Betrayal and smuggling” | 4:37 | |||||||
| 6. | "Shaman" | 7 a.m. | |||||||
| 7. | “I will love” | 4:14 | |||||||
| eight. | “ Mom, we are all seriously ill ” (words - Viktor Tsoi ) | 4:32 | |||||||
| 9. | "Revolutionaries in Cuba" | 11:49 | |||||||
| 49:54 | |||||||||
Record Members
- Alexander F. Sklyar - guitar, vocals;
- Oleg Litvishko - keyboards;
- Anton Khabibulin - bass;
- Sergey Batrakov - drums;
- Alexey Ryslavsky - double bass;
- Rushan Ayupov - button accordion.
Notes
- ↑ Bukharin, Andrey . Alexander F. Sklyar - Songs of Sailors (Russian) // Rolling Stone Russia : Journal. - 2008. - December. - S. 88–89 .
- ↑ Alexander F. Sklyar presents an album with new musicians . Lenta.ru (October 17, 2008). Date of treatment June 30, 2012. Archived December 14, 2012.
- ↑ Songs of Sailors . Tape.ru (October 27, 2008). Date of treatment June 30, 2012. Archived December 14, 2012.
- ↑ Dmitry Bebenin. Songs of sailors . Sounds.ru (December 17, 2008). Date of treatment June 30, 2012. Archived December 14, 2012.
- ↑ Denis Stupnikov. Alexander F. Sklar “Songs of Sailors” (2008) . km.ru (November 27, 2008). Date of treatment June 30, 2012. Archived December 14, 2012.