(Reggae-magazine “SE LA” № 12 may 1999)

 

Wide audience results of creative search rock-misic, as a rule, are unknown. A unique source of the information on such phenomena was and remains magazine, the quantity of potential students directly depends on circulation of this or that magazine and, certainly, from own activity of musicians, their openness and readiness to share fruits of the art.

About group the SHKOLNOE SOLNCE as far as we know, still anybody and anywhere did not write. That these guys from far Tyumen area deserve the most steadfast attention on the part of the reggae-almanac to us it became clear at once after the first listening.

 

Ivan Zemtsov.

 

One I old çíàêîìåö, contrived to visit to Tyumen in the winter a hitch-hiking device, spoke once, that has understood, why in Siberia play the basic punk - rock: in a similar climate of other music and to be, the pier, may not. However natives of Vladivostok play the breat-pop, from Magadan

- art-rock, from Tomsk - jazz - rock... Well and from settlement Tarko-Sale of Purovskogo area of the Tyumen area - reggae. Life, means, not always defines consciousness. And it is nice - tram-pam-pam. More truly, tram-pam, tram-pam as it is valid reggae, self-made, absolutely unpretentious and surprisingly charming. Similar to children's figure bright paints: the crocodile green, a giraffe yellow, the martian - it is natural

- Red, and Sunjah white. And the sun, Jamaica and Rastaman's is necessary. And this naive way of a statement of loved ideas at all does not jar on - it is really similar to the surprised sight of the child opening and learning variety of the world, ingenuous delight of the savage admiring multi-coloured river stones. One and a half chord, bum-bang-, sometimes slightly the bass - guitar, noise of worthless domestic record at all do not prevent to take pleasure in the side And. The side In, to some regret, almost is entirely borrowed more sad and grunge (if it is possible so to name the music played on a similar tooling - though why and is not present?) As though philosophical opuses - except for last, returning us to sensations of the side And. Certainly, songs are written and executed in moods of everyones and different but if style is given, it would be desirable, that; it was observed. And if yet style, and only searches of it is it is necessary to develop the above-stated naive realism. Eventually, than Pirosmani it is worse Goya? And smiling bright yellow sun from children's figure sometimes is more authentic than a photo made from the satellite.

 

Ekaterina Borisova, Saint Petersburg.