"Paralysis" - the debut studio album of the Soviet punk band " Anarchy ", recorded and released in 1988. The album was recorded by Yegor Letov and Oleg Sudakov , also known as “Manager”, and is a collection of songs by Sudakov, composed by him back in 1987 and recorded “in recording” by Letov, who invented arrangements for the songs. It is in fact the first and only album of the group, since a year later the group was renamed “ Army of Vlasov ”.
Paralysis | ||||
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Studio album of the group "Anarchy" | ||||
Date of issue | 1988 , 2002 , 2008 | |||
Recorded by | 1987 , 1988 | |||
Genres | Post-punk , noise-rock , art-punk | |||
Duration | 30 minutes | |||
A country | the USSR | |||
Labels | Grob Records (1988) Ur-Realist (2002) Rebel Records Russia (2008) | |||
Chronology of the group "Anarchy" | ||||
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Content
Album description
Egor Letov began recording the album back in December 1987 [1] . As acknowledged by Letov himself [2] , this album, like the subsequent Vlasov Army, was to be released at the very beginning of 1988.
These albums were supposed to be “released” as early as January 1988, for it was then that I personally played and recorded almost all the tracks. The trouble is that Manager himself didn’t really have the right to sing his weird songs to his own twisted, impossible, "Escher" harmonies. However, these albums were nevertheless completed and released in October 1989. To tell the truth, Manager himself considers them a kind of frivolous, vain indulgence, “semi-piracy”, because he himself imagines these songs in a completely different style. Moreover, they have prepared a whole list of their “potential” 8 albums, for which he already has specific names, covers, etc. So that “Paralysis” and “Army of Vlasov” are, in fact, recorded on my own and extremely annoying initiative and are, in some way, collections of songs that I personally scrupulously selected and jealously selected for my own exacting taste.
Yegor Letov played all the instruments in the recording, with the exception of the song “War”, where the drummer “ Civil Defense ” Arkady Klimkin played the drums. The singer was made by Manager himself, who was the author of all the lyrics (three of them were written in collaboration with Letov).
Song List
No | Title | The words | Music | Duration |
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one. | "Slogans" | Manager , Letov | Letov , Manager | Two to four |
2 | "Recruits" | Manager | Letov , Manager | 4:08 |
3 | “That's right” | Manager | Letov , Manager | 2:08 |
four. | "War" | Manager , Letov | Letov , Manager | 6:07 |
five. | "Mausoleum" | Manager , Letov | Letov , Manager | 1:29 |
6 | "Yesterday's Victories" | Manager | Letov , Manager | 2:26 |
7 | "Paralysis" | Manager | Letov , Manager | 4:09 |
eight. | "Harmonious person" | Manager | - | 1:17 |
9. | "Emptiness" | Manager | Letov , Manager | 2:32 |
ten. | "Conversation" | Manager | Manager | Three to four |
Album Record Members
- Manager - vocals
- Egor Letov - guitars, bass, drums (1-3, 5-10), backing vocals (9), recording and mixing
- Arkady Klimkin - percussion (4)
- Natalya Chumakova - digitization and re-transposition (September 19–22, 2008)
Additional album facts
- The song "Recruits" was written by Oleg Sudakov and dedicated to Konstantin "Kuze UO" Ryabinov , who served at the time in the army. According to Sudakov himself, he is one of his best songs [3] .
- The song “Paralysis”, which is the title song of the album, was written by Oleg after he saw one of his relatives in a state of paralysis [4] .
- The song “War”, written by Sudakov and Letov, was later covered by Letov personally and entered the repertoire of “Civil Defense” in 1989. In the same year the group released an album where this song was the title.
Notes
- ↑ Album on the site of Grob-Records
- ↑ Official Album GrOb Records
- ↑ It is traced in the recording of Yegor Letov, where he and Sudakov persuade Kuzya UO to read a verse, on which Kuzya UO resisted, not wanting to read. Track “Kuzya, read verse!”
- ↑ Information about the album "Howitzers of Lieutenant Guruba" in the book "100 Soviet rock magnetoalbums"
Links
- "Paralysis" on the Discogs website