“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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Рамонки
Ляпис Трубецкой Lyrics
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З космасу радных сыноў
Бачыш, з кветкамi iдуць
I Гагарын, i Цiтоў
Зноў будуюць на дамах
Гнёзды парачкi буслоў
I пяюць для ўсiх дарма
Чэлентана i Буйноў
Гэта мой прыдуманы мiр
Гэта мой вольны шлях
I на усiх кантынентах пiр
I рамонкi на тваiх вустах
Танчыць Ясiр Арафат
Разам з ім п'яненькі Буш.
Яны пьюць на брудершафт
С калiбасаў смачны пунш
Заплятае Чэ Фiдэль
Базылькi у бараду
I спявае Арыэль
Пра магнолii ў саду
Гэта мой прыдуманы мiр
Гэта мой вольны шлях
I на усiх кантынентах пiр
I рамонкi на тваiх вустах
Гэта мой дурацкi дэнс
Гэта мой у натуры дах
Гэта мой дзэн-будзiсцкi cэнс
I рамонкi на тваiх вустах
Каляровыя вяселкi
Запаведныя сады
Залатыя граюць пчолкi
Рэкi, поўныя вады
Гэта мой прыдуманы мiр
Гэта мой вольны шлях
I на усiх кантынентах пiр
I рамонкi на тваiх вустах
Гэта мой дурацкi дэнс
Гэта мой у натуры дах
Гэта мой дзэн-будзiсцкi cэнс
I рамонкi на тваiх вустах
Гэта мой дзэн-будзiсцкi cэнс
I рамонкi на тваiх вустах
The song "Рамонки" by Ляпис Трубецкой expresses the idea of a utopian world that the singer has imagined. The first verse describes how the earth is smiling as it welcomes its space-born sons who come with flowers in their hands. The second verse talks about the construction of bird nests on the roofs and the singing of Chelentano and Buynov for everyone. The chorus emphasizes that this is the singer's imaginary world, his free path, with the word "ramonki" (meaning "ramones") representing a symbol of the world he envisions.
The third verse portrays political figures like Yasir Arafat and George Bush dancing together, drinking punch, and enjoying their brotherhood. Che Guevara is seen with basil in his beard, and Ariel Sharon sings about magnolias in the garden. The bridge talks about the colorful rainbows, the beautiful gardens, bees playing, and rivers full of water. The final chorus repeats the earlier idea of it being the singer's own world with ramonki in the mouth of people, and the song ends with the line that this is his Zen-Buddhist chant.
Line by Line Meaning
Дачакалася Зямля
The Earth has been waiting
З космасу радных сыноў
For the sons who will come from space
Бачыш, з кветкамi iдуць
You see them walking with flowers
I Гагарын, i Цiтоў
Gagarin and Titov
Зноў будуюць на дамах
They're building again on the roofs
Гнёзды парачкi буслоў
Nests of flying buffalo
I пяюць для ўсiх дарма
And they sing for everyone for free
Чэлентана i Буйноў
Of Celentano and Buynov
Гэта мой прыдуманы мiр
This is my imaginary world
Гэта мой вольны шлях
This is my path of freedom
I на усiх кантынентах пiр
And on all the continents it flows
I рамонкi на тваiх вустах
And Ramones on your lips
Танчыць Ясiр Арафат
Arafat is dancing
Разам з ім п'яненькі Буш.
Together with tipsy Bush
Яны пьюць на брудершафт
They drink to brotherhood
С калiбасаў смачны пунш
Drinking delicious punch from calabashes
Заплятае Чэ Фiдэль
Che Fidel is braiding
Базылькi у бараду
Basil in his beard
I спявае Арыэль
And Ariel is singing
Пра магнолii ў саду
About magnolias in the garden
Каляровыя вяселкi
Colorful rainbows
Запаведныя сады
Forbidden gardens
Залатыя граюць пчолкi
Golden bees are playing
Рэкi, поўныя вады
Rivers, full of water
Гэта мой дурацкi дэнс
This is my silly dance
Гэта мой у натуры дах
This is my natural high
Гэта мой дзэн-будзiсцкi cэнс
This is my Zen Buddhist chant
I рамонкi на тваiх вустах
And Ramones on your lips
Гэта мой дзэн-будзiсцкi cэнс
This is my Zen Buddhist chant
I рамонкi на тваiх вустах
And Ramones on your lips
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Да, было время... Ляписы, Вы лучшие.
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