“We came from the underground and became popular with our pop-culture parodies. One day to my horror I realized that our group has become similar to the objects of our parodies and mockery. We were starting to merge with all those pop-star crowd, but I’m not one of them and never wanted to be,” - Sergey Mikhalok, the band’s leader says. He admits that it wasn’t so easy to give up the show business game and become independent once again.
According to him, “it was very difficult to get our true essence back on top. And the thing wasn’t about any contracts. We had to overcome public opinion and, most importantly, set our own minds free. At first, my internal discomfort from the gap between the authentic “Lyapis Trubetskoy” and its public image was relieved by hard drinking and other stuff, but when my weight peaked at 110 kilograms and my mind was about to collapse, I gave up everything, lost 25 kilograms and started to play the music I like.”
“Capital” is the second independent album by “Lyapis Trubetskoy” after the “Zoloty’ye yaytsy” (“Golden Balls”) created in 2004 under heavy reggae and ska influence. “While working on “Zoloty’ye yaytsy” we didn’t understand what to do with our independence. As a result there were some reflex attempts to score a radio hit with “Rain’ka” or “Pochtal’iony” (“Postmen”), - Sergey Mikhalok says. – But this wasn’t the biggest problem. The whole album was overproduced, we tried to mix too many styles, musical instruments and sounds in it. So, we paid too much attention to the form instead of the essence. We were in need of a real professional who could tell us what was good and what was too much.”
That is why searching for a sound producer was one of the main tasks while working on “Capital”. At some point the band wanted to record their album in London, in the hometown the legendary British ska-band “Madness” (one of Mihalok’s favourites). When almost everything was ready for that, a chance interfered. At a concert in Kiev “Lyapis Trubetskoy” met a famous Ukrainian sound producer Vitaliy Telezin. He worked with “Okean El’zi”, “Brat’ia Grim” and other top Ukrainian/Russian artists. But it wasn’t the thing that attracted Mikhalok and his friends.
“We are from the same generation with him, we had common world outlook, we liked the same music. And it was the music we wanted to record on our new album. I don’t want to offend anyone, but, roughly speaking, for our band he is the first studio guy who didn’t need explanations about what is California wave or how “Green Day” and “Offspring” make their sound,” - Mikhalok says.
And this combination has worked perfectly well. Now it’s already clear that the new album will mean to the band and its fans no less than the legendary “Ty kinula” (“You Gave Me Up”) in 1998 and will give a rise to the new popularity wave for “Lyapis Trubetskoy”. Still, according to Sergey Mikhalok, the ideology of both the new album and the present group is different from what used to be in the years between these two landmarks. He says: “When I started my career I used to write songs that changed me and the world around me, but later I began to create stuff, that didn’t have influence either on me or the world around. At best those songs could be a soundtrack for some wedding or birthday. And what is horrible at some point I even used to be proud of that. But now I have come back to what everything started from – to a mix of biting satire and powerful chords.”
Video clips have played an important role in the album presentation. The first clip for the song “Hare” (“Enough”), a cheerful wedding trash-video, was filmed by a famous actor and new wave director Vladimir Epifantsev. The second clip, animation video “Capital”, which has become a real Internet sensation, was made by Aleksey Terekhov, co-author of the legendary “Au” (1998) and “Rozochka” (1999) videos. "Capital" has hardly appeared on TV, but has already won several prizes and got a lot of nominations on the different video & music festivals in Russia, Belarus, Portugal and so on.
Frontman Siarhei Mikhalok anounced mid-March 2014 that the group would ceased to exist the next 1 September.
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Галактика
Ляпис Трубецкой Lyrics
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Тот будет искать запах крови.
Братва с берегов Волги
Найдет фраера даже в Ростове.
Цивилизованный рынок,
Пьяный Джокер с милой улыбкой.
Доисторический инок
Считал обжорство смертельной ошибкой
Галактика скоро лопнет от колы и поп-корна,
Адам Кадмон топнет — расплющит нашу форму.
Галакатика скоро треснет от жира и тушенки,
Кит проглотит Землю и наши с тобой душонки, yeah.
Поделись волшебным секретом,
Как запекать свиные уши.
Хочешь быть сытым поэтом —
Пой Отчизне и будешь кушать.
Сколько выпьешь бензина за день?
Радуйся, мальчик, дебилам скидки.
Даже сухой трухлявый пень
Считает людей смертельной ошибкой.
Галактика скоро лопнет от колы и поп-корна,
Адам Кадмон топнет — расплющит нашу форму.
Галакатика скоро треснет от жира и тушенки,
Кит проглотит Землю и наши с тобой душонки.
Галактика скоро лопнет от колы и поп-корна,
Адам Кадмон топнет — расплющит нашу форму.
Галакатика скоро треснет от жира и тушенки,
Кит проглотит Землю и наши с тобой душонки.
Галактика скоро лопнет от колы и поп-корна,
Адам Кадмон топнет — расплющит нашу форму.
Галакатика скоро треснет от жира и тушенки,
Кит проглотит Землю и наши с тобой душонки, yeah.
The Ляпис Трубецкой's song "Галактика" is a critique of society's obsession with indulgence, consumerism, and superficialities. The opening lines suggest that those who are raised by wolves will seek the scent of blood, implying that society has conditioned us to seek out destructive things. The second line of the verse goes on to say that brotherhoods from the Volga River can find a sucker even in Rostov, meaning that even in distant places, someone will always fall for scams.
Line by Line Meaning
Кого воспитали волки, Тот будет искать запах крови.
People brought up by wolves will crave blood.
Братва с берегов Волги Найдет фраера даже в Ростове.
Gangs from the banks of the Volga River will find victims even in Rostov.
Цивилизованный рынок, Пьяный Джокер с милой улыбкой.
The civilized market is akin to a drunken Joker with a sweet smile.
Доисторический инок Считал обжорство смертельной ошибкой
A prehistoric monk considered gluttony as fatal.
Галактика скоро лопнет от колы и поп-корна, Адам Кадмон топнет — расплющит нашу форму.
The galaxy will soon burst from Coke and popcorn, while Adam Kadmon will flatten our shape.
Галакатика скоро треснет от жира и тушенки, Кит проглотит Землю и наши с тобой душонки, yeah.
The galaxy will soon split from fat and stew, while a whale will swallow the Earth and our souls, yeah.
Поделись волшебным секретом, Как запекать свиные уши.
Share the magical secret of how to bake pig's ears.
Хочешь быть сытым поэтом — Пой Отчизне и будешь кушать.
If you want to be a full poet, sing for your homeland, and you'll eat.
Сколько выпьешь бензина за день? Радуйся, мальчик, дебилам скидки.
How much gasoline will you drink in a day? Celebrate, boy, idiots get discounts.
Даже сухой трухлявый пень Считает людей смертельной ошибкой.
Even a dry, rotten stump considers people to be fatal mistakes.
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