Biography
The leader of the Civil Defense Group, which was considered on the Soviet and Russian music space of the flagship of Punk Rock and Psychelism, Yegor Letov said that "any real work should be made with their own hands." The musicians were composed, worked in the studio, toured and demonstrated that they did not recognize any authorities except themselves. Perhaps, therefore, the frontman stated that the "Coffin of Records" is the only independent formation in the country.Compound
The biography of "Civil Defense", also referred to as "Go" or "Gr.ob.", began in November 1984. The backbone of the group was friends - Vocalist Igor (Egor) of the years and bassist Konstantin "Kuzya" Ryabinov. The third member of the team Andrei "Boss" Babenko went after six months.
Later through the "Civil Defense", there were about three dozen musicians entering the main and concert compositions. This is the brothers Oleg and Evgeny Lyschenko, Oleg "Manager" of Sudakov, who committed suicide guitarist Dmitry Selivanov. I did not refuse invitations to perform on one scene Valery Rozhkov, Yevgeny "Jackson" Kokorin and Igor Zhevtun.
In 2001, Alexander Chesnakov, the arranger and the author of the Omsk team "Collection of Butterflies" came to the group. In 2005, "Guo" left Alexander Andryushkin to the nicknamed "Ghost of the Opera". According to the group's website, the drummer violated the established rule, according to which none of the musicians had the right to communicate with television journalists.
Music
The debut album of the group is considered to be "fading youth." The compositions included in the playlist corresponded to the name - "hate women", "Mom b ***", "diarrhea-apotheosis." Falls himself responded about songs as inherent in relation to listeners. The record reached the general public in 1988, officially came out only after 8 years, in 2005 reprinted on the Miscellaneous Sound Label.
In the comments to the reprinted "Mousetrap", the frontman of the "Civil Defense" noted that this is the first album that he recorded independently. Egor fulfilled the parties on musical instruments, then brought in a home studio using a homemade delay installation. On the plate sounded "Deserter", "Mimikria", "die young".
Similarly, by recording the film and the further imposition of individual parties, "Totalitarianism", "necrophilia" and "good!" Are recorded. The song "Sadness My Light" from the second album performed the rock singer Yanka Dyagilev.
Another fruit of his own work of God was the album "So stolen steel". In it, the musician reflected the attitude towards the restriction of freedom of personality, the names of the compositions speak for themselves: "New 37th", "soldiers are not born", "KGB".
"Live" recording "Songs of Joy and Happiness" was made in 1989 at a party at the Auktsyon group, refined in Omsk, said the "Reproducer" portal. The album "great and forever" opened the cycle under the conditional name "Russian field of experiments", one of the most significant projects of Letov, who himself called the peak of sound audacity, uncompromising and non-commercial.
Heit "My Defense" was called in him, which listeners were regularly asked to fulfill the "civil defense" concerts and during Solnikov Letov. In the DVD-editorial office, a video clip attracted a bonus, which became the first documentary narration about the group.
The basic material for the album "The Last Concert in Tallinn" was the record of performances at the Estonian Festival "Rock for Democracy". During the concert with the participation of "Temop", the "TV" of the years announced the dissolution of the collective due to the fact that it does not want to become part of the pop scene, although the popularity in the medium of informals from "civil defense" was high.
After that, Egor recorded the album "Jump-Skok: Children's Songs", which became essentially his solo project. Among others, the album includes the composition "about fool", with delight adopted by fans and present in all concert albums "Gr.ob.".
The records of the "last concert" initially spread illegally, then in 1997 an official video cassette was published, in two years - a CD. In 2007, I saw a DVD light, but without a bonus track performed by Yankee Dyagileva, which is on the first albums. The "Survival Instrument" plate was called from the Tyumen group of the same name. The rights to the songs belonged to her soloist Roman Ettooth.
The presentation of the group in the Sports Palace "Wings of Soviets" in the spring of 1994 gathered 5,000 spectators and became a loud event for Moscow. At the concert gathered by the golden composition of "Civil Defense" - Igor Zhevtun, Konstantin Ryabinov and Egor Letov. In the final, the musicians performed the Soviet hit Alexandra Pakhmutova and Nikolay Dobronravov "and the fight again continues."
The resuscitation album is a dilogy with a "long happy life." The record is recorded on modern digital equipment, the Egor tried to invest in the name of the time spent in a psychiatric clinic. To publish the album, the author announced a competition for labels. There was a prerequisite for the publication of the entire discography "Gr.ob.". As a result, the publication of the musical heritage was engaged in the "Mystery of Sound" Airat Sharipova.
The musicians pleased with the original statement of the song "Loom" to the famous motive and a perky "simple pie". Regarding the last author of the text, there was no final version of the song in nature, and she could be infinite. The phrase "loves our people Any g ***" Subsequently used Sergey Shnurov, ridicuing the habit of compatriots in the song.
In 2002, he saw the light "Starfall". The album consisted of the compositions of Soviet authors in the arrangement of the "civil defense". CDs and cassettes quickly became a rarity, in 2011 a vinyl record was published with Karavella bonus performed by Natalia Chumakova.
Announced the "long happy life", the years said that the album managed to realize what was not turned out in the previous ones. The singer described the songs as "a man's dreams in a state of war." Caver on the composition of Boris Grebenshchikova "Electric Dog" after the death of Egor came out with a separate single.
The last studio album "Why dream of dreams?", In the record of which the striker Pavel Peretolacin participated, the group released in 2007. For the processing of each of the 19 tracks, Egor took no more than three hours and eventually "remained satisfied by 500%."
"Civil Defense" now
The portal "Reproducer" in the fall of 2017 reported that the albums "Frightened youth" and "Optimism" were reprinted. The new edition came out in the form of 6-strip Dijipakov, to which booklets were attached. The playlist includes bonus tracks prepared by Egor Chovyov in 2005.
Shortly before that, the Moscow label of Alexander Vyenoinsky "Potygorod" reassured the records of "Civil Defense" - "Russian field of experiments" and "Songs of joy and happiness". The company made digital recordings from the original tapes, conducted mastering and supplemented albums by bonus tracks.
As wrote "New Gazeta", creativity "Gr.ob." Originally in Brooklyn. Fan of Letov, the black musician Chase Winters, says that he understands the lying texts on the sensory level.
"Oddly enough, and" everything goes according to plan ", and even the" state "is pleasant to the song. No wonder the Massive Attack sang "everything goes according to plan", and in Russian, and it is generally fantasy, because the English-speaking world is looked at himself. "
Petersburg musician and founder of the Billy's Band group Billy Novik, for which "Dostoevsky, Solzhenitsyn and the Falls is the links of one chain", in April 2018 gave a single club concert. In the walls of "16 tons", the hits of "civil defense" and from the solo projects of Egor.
The memory of the "main person of the Siberian Punk" Ren-tv dedicated a documentary.
Discography
- 1985 - "Pogatny Youth"
- 1986 - "Game in Beads before Pigs"
- 1987 - "Nekrophilia"
- 1988 - "Everything goes according to plan"
- 1989 - "Great and forever"
- 1990 - "Instructions for survival"
- 1997 - "Solvice"
- 2004 - "Long happy life"
- 2005 - "Resuscitation"
- 2007 - "Why dream of dreams?"
- 2012 - "Electric Dog"