Lyapis Trubetskoy, formed in Belarus in 1990, is one of the strangest bands… Read Full Bio ↴Lyapis Trubetskoy, formed in Belarus in 1990, is one of the strangest bands of the post-soviet show business. In 1998-1999 their songs could be heard on any major radio station, their videos were shown on every top TV channel both in Russia and CIS countries. Until now their legendary hits like “Au”, “Ti kinula” (“You Gave Me Up”), “Zelenolazoye taksi” (“Green-eyed Taxi”), “V plat’ye belom” (“In A White Dress”) and “Yabloni” (“Apple-trees”) are still popular among all Russian karaoke singers. Isn’t it the obvious sign of public acknowledgement? So, for “Lyapis Trubetskoy” the way towards stadium concerts seemed to be open, but…
“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.
offical website
www.lyapis.com
myspace page
www.myspace.com/lyapis
“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.
offical website
www.lyapis.com
myspace page
www.myspace.com/lyapis
Командир
Ляпис Трубецкой Lyrics
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Разум не проснётся от шума демонстраций,
Циклоп не видит солнца за блеском декораций.
Мир сыграет в дудку — мыши снова в клетке,
Попы и прост*тутки — кремлёвские таблетки.
Мир. Труд. Май.
Радость через край.
Май. Труд. Мир.
Прости нас, командир!
Ленточки сорвали, бегом, на застол баксы,
Бойцовское сознание не воспитать у таксы.
Вернулись комиссары, чека и продразвёрстки,
Я стал больным и старым, беспомощным подростком.
Мир. Труд. Май.
Радость через край.
Май. Труд. Мир.
Прости нас, командир!
Мир. Труд. Май.
Радость через край.
Май. Труд. Мир.
Прости нас, командир!
Циклоп не видит солнца за блеском декораций.
Мир сыграет в дудку — мыши снова в клетке,
Попы и прост*тутки — кремлёвские таблетки.
Мир. Труд. Май.
Радость через край.
Май. Труд. Мир.
Ленточки сорвали, бегом, на застол баксы,
Бойцовское сознание не воспитать у таксы.
Вернулись комиссары, чека и продразвёрстки,
Я стал больным и старым, беспомощным подростком.
Мир. Труд. Май.
Радость через край.
Май. Труд. Мир.
Прости нас, командир!
Мир. Труд. Май.
Радость через край.
Май. Труд. Мир.
Прости нас, командир!
Разум не проснётся от шума демонстраций,
The mind won't wake up from the noise of protests,
Циклоп не видит солнца за блеском декораций.
Cyclops can't see the sun behind the sparkle of decorations.
Мир сыграет в дудку — мыши снова в клетке,
The world will play the flute -- mice will be back in the cage,
Попы и прост*тутки — кремлёвские таблетки.
Priests and prostitutes -- Kremlin's pills.
Ленточки сорвали, бегом, на застол баксы,
Ribbons were torn off, quickly exchanged for money at the feast,
Бойцовское сознание не воспитать у таксы.
There's no way to raise a fighting spirit in a lapdog.
Вернулись комиссары, чека и продразвёрстки,
The commissioners, checks and inspections have returned,
Я стал больным и старым, беспомощным подростком.
I've become sick and old, a helpless teenager.
Мир. Труд. Май.
Peace. Labor. May.
Радость через край.
Joy beyond measure.
Прости нас, командир!
Forgive us, commander!
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Сергій Правда
Смело, твердо, сдержано, ясно, не клип а молот!
Nadiia Lysak
Раньше у меня никак не укладывалось в голове ,почему весь мир молчал? Кто мог работать в Освенциме? Как люди не видели и не понимали кто такой гитлер? Как произошло то, что здравомыслящие и психические здоровые люди "не видели" и "не знали", что происходит совсем рядом? Сейчас я начинаю чувствовать ответ. Все происходило постепенно. Маленькими шажками. Незаметно. Жизнь продолжалась, солнце светило, пахла сирень, дети плакали и смеялись. Мир, труд и май.
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Немцы до сих пор каются,рф приемник ссср только победобесие.
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Зачетно! Очень жизненно!
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Жыве Ляпіс!!!
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Молодцы ребята!