“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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Панас
Ляпис Трубецкой Lyrics
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Кравапийца Панас, лётай з голай с**кай, надыдзе час здохнеш як сабака.
Музыка iграе, дзеўкі пяюць, злодзея Панаса чэрці нясуць.
Музыка iграе - здох Панас, новае жыццё, новы час.
Жгі маю хату, бяры маю жонку, бей майго тату, крыж ды іконку.
Крывапійца вар'яцей скачы, надыдзе час здохнеш ўначы.
Музыка iграе, дзеўкі пяюць, злодзея Панаса чэрці нясуць.
Музыка iграе - здох Панас, новае жыццё, новы час.
Музыка iграе, дзеўкі пяюць, злодзея Панаса чэрці нясуць.
Музыка iграе - здох Панас, новае жыццё, новы час.
Музыка iграе, дзеўкі пяюць, злодзея Панаса чэрці нясуць.
Музыка iграе - здох Панас, новае жыццё, новы час, новае жыццё, новы час.
The lyrics of Ляпис Трубецкой's song Панас describe the story of a man named Panas, who is a criminal and a thief. The singer is suggesting that he himself be beaten, along with his friends, and that his life and blood be taken instead of Panas'. The chorus of the song talks about how the music plays while the girls sing, and how the devil carries Panas away. The song suggests that Panas will eventually die like a dog.
The second verse of the song suggests that Panas' wrongdoings have caught up with him and that the devil is carrying him away. The music still plays, but Panas has died and a new time has begun. The third verse asks for the singer's house, wife, father, and religious symbols to be burned and destroyed. The song ends with the chorus once again, stating that the music plays on while the girls sing, and the devil carries Panas away to a new life, a new time.
Overall, the lyrics of the song seem to be commenting on the cycle of violence and wrongdoing, and how it inevitably catches up with people. The suggestion to switch out the punishment from Panas to the singer and his friends could be a commentary on the idea of taking responsibility for one's actions.
Line by Line Meaning
Забей мяне, забей маіх сяброў, бяры маё жыццё, бяры маю кроў.
Ignore me, ignore my friends, take my life, take my blood.
Кравапийца Панас, лётай з голай с**кай, надыдзе час здохнеш як сабака.
Panas the murderer, fly away with your bare butt, your time will come to die like a dog.
Музыка iграе, дзеўкі пяюць, злодзея Панаса чэрці нясуць.
The music plays, the girls sing, demons carry the thief Panas.
Музыка iграе - здох Панас, новае жыццё, новы час.
The music plays - Panas died, a new life, a new time.
Жгі маю хату, бяры маю жонку, бей майго тату, крыж ды іконку.
Burn my house, take my wife, hit my father, cross and icon.
Крывапійца вар'яцей скачы, надыдзе час здохнеш ўначы.
The blood drinker jumps higher, your time will come to die at night.
Музыка iграе, дзеўкі пяюць, злодзея Панаса чэрці нясуць.
The music plays, the girls sing, demons carry the thief Panas.
Музыка iграе - здох Панас, новае жыццё, новы час.
The music plays - Panas died, a new life, a new time.
Музыка iграе, дзеўкі пяюць, злодзея Панаса чэрці нясуць.
The music plays, the girls sing, demons carry the thief Panas.
Музыка iграе - здох Панас, новае жыццё, новы час, новае жыццё, новы час.
The music plays - Panas died, a new life, a new time, a new life, a new time.
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