“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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Лилипут
Ляпис Трубецкой Lyrics
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Седая, как пепел вулкана,
Миром правит страх,
Монета на дне стакана.
Мой сосед Сатана,
Ведьмы поют на балконе,
Пропала с радаров весна,
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Очень красиво гудит,
Преданный друг холодильник,
Темно, костылем разбит,
Единственный в доме светильник.
На шторе висит мотылек,
Черный бумажный чертик,
Солнце, как уголек,
Я маленький - мне один годик.
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The first verse of the song "Лилипут" presents vivid imagery of the singer's surroundings. The fall is represented as being on the singer's temples, gray as the ash of a volcano. The world is ruled by fear, and everything is hopeless, illustrated by the metaphor of the coin at the bottom of the glass. The singer's neighbor is Satan, and witches are singing on the balcony. Spring has disappeared from the radar. The snow is on the cold hands. All of these images paint a picture of gloom and despair.
The second verse of the song presents a strange mix of details. A loyal friend, the refrigerator, hums beautifully while the only light in the house comes from a single lamp. The curtain has a small butterfly on it, and a black paper devil is hanging on the wall. The sun looks like a piece of coal, and the singer is just one year old.
The chorus repeats the word "Лилипут" which refers to the character of the same name from Jonathan Swift's famous novel, "Gulliver's Travels". The frequent repetition of this word emphasizes its importance and suggests that the character of Лилипут is a motif that runs throughout the song.
Overall, the song seems to be a commentary on the world's chaos and the singer's isolation in the midst of it. Лилипут is used to symbolize the singer's smallness and fragility in a larger-than-life world.
Line by Line Meaning
Осень на моих висках,
Autumn is on my temples,
Седая, как пепел вулкана,
Gray, like the ash of a volcano,
Миром правит страх,
Fear rules the world,
Монета на дне стакана.
A coin at the bottom of a glass.
Мой сосед Сатана,
My neighbor is Satan,
Ведьмы поют на балконе,
Witches are singing on the balcony,
Пропала с радаров весна,
Spring has disappeared from radars,
Снег на холодных ладонях.
Snow on cold palms.
Очень красиво гудит,
Very beautifully hums,
Преданный друг холодильник,
A loyal friend, the refrigerator,
Темно, костылем разбит,
Darkness, shattered with a crutch,
Единственный в доме светильник.
The only lamp in the house.
На шторе висит мотылек,
A butterfly hangs on the curtain,
Черный бумажный чертик,
A black paper imp,
Солнце, как уголек,
The sun, like a piece of coal,
Я маленький - мне один годик.
I'm little - I'm only one year old.
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Lilliput is here again...
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Stas Sidorenko
Бас офигенно звучит!
Сколько слушаю эту песню, кайфую от рифа и текста!))
Сергей Слепухин
Будь там. Вдохновляй песнями. Приятно смотреть как ты вырос над собой прошлым. Я беру с тебя пример.
Грат Авто
Потрясающее умение за глупыми детскими словечками спрятать огромный смысл. 👍 я в восторге
Денис Чередник
В песнях "Яблони", "В платье белом", "Сочи" есть смысл
Но никак не в этом говне смысл искать
I'm irwinthedj
И в чём-же тут глубина? О чём песня?
Дмитрий Пойманов
Нет тут никакого скрытого смысла, не надо его за уши притягивать. В ранних песнях про "когда зимой холодною" и то больше смысла было
I W
Как круто звучит! Отличная песня. Спасибо!!!
Александр Зайцев
Ляпис! Поддержи свой народ!
Женя Бартасевич
Так лилипут уже шлет своих
Daniel Ivzhenko
Ляпис, ты лучший)