“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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Месяц
Ляпис Трубецкой Lyrics
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З'яўляўся хвалюючы сэнс.
Вадзіў індзейскую хэўру
У цёмны Кайкаўскі лес.
Глядзеў у глыбокi калодзеж,
Там жыў бескрылы анёл.
Шукаў чарадзея. А дзе ж ён?
Прыпеў:
Месяц - братка мой. Месяц мой.
Месяц - братка мой. Месяц мой.
Хаваўся ў цудоўны асiннiк,
Дзядуля шукаў з бiзуном.
Наводзiў на поўнач гадзiннiк,
Каб здацца ночы ў палон.
Вера мая - восень,
Сонца толькi ў снах.
Маiх архангелаў - восем,
Ляцяць, як птушкi на дах.
Прыпеў:
Месяц - братка мой. Месяц мой.
Месяц - братка мой. Месяц мой.
Месяц - братка мой. Месяц мой.
Месяц - братка мой. Месяц мой.
The song "Месяц" by Ляпис Трубецкой tells the story of a child who waits for the darkness and the meaning that comes with it. The child rides an Indian horse through the dark Kaikavsky forest, searching for a magician to take him to the moon. The child sees a wingless angel living deep in a hollow, and he is still searching for the magician. The child hides in a wonderful ash tree with an old man looking for a bristlegrass to tell when the night is falling.
The lyrics show the child's fascination with darkness, and the imagery of the woods, the magical creatures, and the moon give a dreamlike quality to the story. The child's search for a magician to take him to the moon reflects the desire for adventure and the unknown, which is a universal desire that we all carry within us.
The repeated chorus, "Месяц - братка мой. Месяц мой," which translates to "Moon, my brother. My moon," reinforces the theme of the child's close relationship with the moon, which is also a universal symbol of mystery and wonder.
Line by Line Meaning
У дзяцінстве чакаў цемру,
In childhood he awaited darkness
З'яўляўся хвалюючы сэнс.
Which appeared to him gloriously.
Вадзіў індзейскую хэўру
He drove an Indian stringed instrument
У цёмны Кайкаўскі лес.
In the dark forest of Kaykaw.
Глядзеў у глыбокi калодзеж,
He looked into a deep well
Там жыў бескрылы анёл.
Where an angel without wings was living.
Шукаў чарадзея. А дзе ж ён?
He was searching for a wizard, but where is he?
Хацеў, каб на месяц адвёў.
He wanted the wizard to take him to the moon.
Месяц - братка мой. Месяц мой.
Moon - my brother. My moon.
Хаваўся ў цудоўны асiннiк,
He hid in a wonderful garden,
Дзядуля шукаў з бiзуном.
Looking for an uncle with a whip.
Наводзiў на поўнач гадзiннiк,
Set a watch for midnight
Каб здацца ночы ў палон.
To give himself over to the night.
Вера мая - восень,
My faith is autumn,
Сонца толькi ў снах.
The sun is only in dreams.
Маiх архангелаў - восем,
I have eight archangels,
Ляцяць, як птушкi на дах.
They fly like birds to the roof.
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Mykola Teplyj
У дзяцінстве чакаў цемру,
З'яўляўся хвалюючы сэнс.
Вадзіў індзейскую хэўру
У цёмны Кайкаўскі лес.
Глядзеў у глыбокі калодзеж:
Там жыў бяскрылы анёл.
Шукаў чарадзея, а дзе ж ён?
Хацеў, каб на месяц адвёў.
Месяц, братка мой!
Месяц мой!
Месяц, братка мой!
Месяц мой!
Хаваўся ў цудоўны асіннік,
Дзядуля шукаў з бізуном.
Наводзіў на поўнач гадзіннік,
Каб здацца ночы ў палон.
Вера мая — восень,
Сонца — толькі ў снах.
Маіх архангелаў — восем,
Ляцяць, як птушкі на дах.
Месяц, братка мой!
Месяц мой!
Месяц, братка мой!
Месяц мой!
Сергей Потехин
As a child,waiting for darkness
In a exhilarating sense
Led the Indian crew
In the dark forest kaykavsky
Looked into a deep well:
There lived a wingless angel.
Sought magician,and where is he?
Wanted for a moon took.
Moon is brother for me!
My moon!
Moon is bro` for me!
My moon!
Hiding in the beatiful aspen
Grandpa was looking with a whip.
Brinding the north(midnight) clock
To surrender to the nijht captivity
My faith is autumn.
Sun only in dreams.
My Archangels are eight.
They fly like birds on the roof.
Moon,my brother!
My moon!
Moon,my brother!
My moon!
Марат Замчалов
Сейчас 22 год, я пересматриваю это прекрасное творение в сотый раз. Спасибо, Ляпис Трубецкой за прекрасную юность)))
Ruslan Drangai
Вот что может беларус, когда он свободен. Самобытная культура, история. Ляписы самые крутые...
Alek Sher
Ты хоть понял что написал
Солнечный ТенёкЪ
мая свабода тое МОВА
Only Live Trading
2020 это подтвердил.
Алекс Сладков
Жыве Беларусь!
Картинки
Жыве Беларусь!
О. К.
крутая песня
yogsagot
Я все больше укрепляюсь во мнении,что "Месяц" это лучший клип Ляписа за всю историю его существования. При том, что я ОЧЕНЬ высоко ценю целый ряд их клипов. Но здесь символизм просто зашкаливает, от финального кадра по коже бегут мурашки.
Игорь Пилипчук
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