(Reggae-magazine “SE LA” № 13 , “Novaya Molodezhnaya Gazeta” december 1999)

(The reduced Variant)

 

"Well, Father, on tank and to the light future! Antinarcotic!" On an appeal was heard to me in the first song of an album.

And the following composition, under the name "Africa", - in good! Cheerful, good and, in my opinion, the best thing on this cartridge. So to hold! Very well! "... Warm hands to heat us in road. " Very simple, but such intelligible and emotional text. Further follows " Otpustite Menia ". Not worry, Sunjah, we shall not release (let off) you in a monastery. Estimate, if all in a monastery will move, who then on rock-and-roll front will be a partisan? " It is ours with you rock-and-roll front " as sang once one more Sunjah guru Egor Letov. In " Girl - moon-tears " there is something like guitar solo, and it would be desirable to write: in spirit of the GRAZHDANSKAYA OBORONA very plaintive song, drunk to girls on room concerts should like One more plaintive song on an album - "Komu Na Rusi Zhit Horosho (to whom In Russia To live Well)". To whom, whom? Yes to the brother to mine Paramoshka which the last week has died! The text narrates about ours ðàññåéñêîé to a share hapless yes gloomy, all so it is bad yes is nasty. Where mine of 100 gramme strong alcoholic drinks? It is necessary for deceased Paramoshka to drink. And about steppe, yes grasses is it is healthy, it is impossible Russian to come off roots, really we Ikar's what, and that so is possible and to depart to " Devochka Lunnie Slezi ".

" O Janke ". Record and execution (performance) sounds is more best, than on an album "Tabak." After songs " Nafiga Voevat?! " And "Dozd" it becomes clear, that guys " are obviously overfed " deceased Janka. " Solnce Pokinulo Nas " sounds more decently, than on above mentioned "Tabak." Sunjah here so quickly I sing, that, perhaps, would name this thing among the best creations of the Shkolnoe Solnce. Finishes an album a song "Kino." " That in the sky to be cleared by soul, I should pass a hell terrestrial am a cinema ", almost as at Morrison: " the World - film which is removed by people " And Andy Uorhal here at anything!

I have heard record up to the end, have then left to smoke on a platform, have returned and has reflected: " the Pancake, and reggae, actually, where?! " Or even axiomatic - sex, binge, a rock-and-roll? If after listening a debut album, which as to me is remembered, referred to as " the Skolnoe Solnce. " I went as if the penguin, cheerfully singing: " Jamaica -e-e, Jamaica - e-e-e!.. ", after acquaintance with the data album in my head only one idea. That " Janka Has died " and that somewhere is necessary to run (variants: behind vodka to beat to the neighbour a muzzle that it has spat on a carpet, laying near a threshold of an apartment).

More shortly, muzhiks, or I grow old, or values at growing up young rock-n-roll began a little bit others, than in times of " the British intrusion ".

 

Yours faithfully, Mayk Hvatov