Nerd wedding

The album was recorded in 1974-1976, partly at the Melody studio, partly at home. At home, vocal parts were recorded for two songs: “Nerd” and “And I am finished,” since recording vocals for these songs on “Melodies” was rather risky due to the content of the lyrics.

“Conformist” was similar to the songs of famous VIA and conveyed a lyrical mood, but differed from them in a relaxed text and mysticism, as well as with a bow on the strings of an acoustic guitar in the finale and an alto part recorded with a delay in reverb.

Futuristic odes to the “devil and genius” in the song “Nerd” were preceded by a guitar riff, painted with a rusty timbre of a homemade guitar and a “punk” chorus:

Yes yes yes yes give
I'm a nerd and I'm high!

“I don’t know for what” and “Black Dog” were less “noisy”, but their musical energy was not inferior to such downhole hits as “Nerd” and “And to me and so is the end”. In the complex rhythm of the hard rock composition “I Don't Know Why,” hid a melodic line with “From Me To You” performed by Beatles.

The words and music “Give me wings, God” were written by Morozov in the 74th year in the process of studying various world religions and subsequently predetermined the Christian-Buddhist orientation of his later works. This song was originally conceived by the author as a ballad. However, the song was in the form of a chorale , as Morozov had forgotten the twelve-string guitar at home. Not limited to imitating polyphony on his own, the sound engineer included a female vocal part performed by his wife and the motifs of a symphonic quartet from the archive of 8-channel phonograms of the Melody company.

From the composition “And this is already for me” (which was an interpretation of Hendrix’s musical ideas) and up to the final song “Black Dog”, the theme of death develops in the album.

With one bitch creaking, forgiving all, suicides a corpse hung ... (from the song "Wedding of cretins")

Until now, the record has not been officially released, although two songs (“Kretin” and “And I Am Enough”) were released as part of the collection “Idioteka” released by the AntTrop label in 1991 (catalog number of the label П91 00021, according to the all-union catalog “ Melodies ” C90 31861). The author himself, since the end of the 70s, recommended the magneto-album “Where the Darkness Was Given” (issued by 1977) as an appendix to it, and later, when completing a complete remastered discography on 46 CDs, they were issued as one two-album edition.

Words and music of all songs were written by Yuri Morozov, except (8) - music in collaboration with Sergey Luzin .

• Yuri Morozov - guitars , bass , drums , vocals
• Nina Morozova - vocals (4)
• Sergey Luzin - piano (8)

• Since the album sounded only 24 minutes, when dubbing it to one side of a 525-meter reel, the author recommended in addition a 77-year cycle of songs “Where They Gave Darkness”. Mutually complementing each other, these two collections of songs constituted a full-fledged magneto-album, which has been distributed in this form since the end of the 70s.
• The song “Conformist” (called “Conformist Morozov”) was a cover and sounded the first song on the debut album of the Moscow rock group “Crematorium” “ Wine Memoirs ” (1983), moreover with a verse added by Armen Grigoryan ). Later, both leaders of the collective - Grigoryan and Troegubov , in numerous memoirs claimed that for them Morozov was an example of imitation.
• Due to the secrecy of Yuri Morozov and the closedness of the official office, "alien" musicians were not allowed to record.
• The album was the pinnacle of experimenting with a new Soviet song.
• Sergey Luzin also participated in recording other Morozov albums, including in Jimi Hendrix’s Cherry Orchard

• A. Kushnir “100 magneto-albums of Soviet rock”