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March 14, 2013   ·   0 Comments

Pretty often in Russian pop music bands are better they deserve to be. In a landscape peppered with “producers’ projects” and line-ups that change almost monthly, you’d have every right to walk around with low expectations. The inability to define exactly who is in these bands at any times can be extreme (though their are sometimes warning signs: reaching 30 would be one of them). Indecent discussions can be found on line, from socially challenged young men, listing the various line-ups of female “projects” that would be worthy of their sexual attention, and those which wouldn’t. (Some I doubt the interest would be mutual).

One pleasant exception is the ensemble “Slivki” (Cream), who’ve been pushing out very respectable releases for over five years, yet only retained their central member, Karina Koks (here in the, um… center). By way of surprising example, their version of Pugacheva‘s “Kuda ukhodit detstva” remains one of the best post-Soviet cover versions ever.)

The basic reason for their ongoing high standards (despite posing for shoots such as this) is the production standards from release to release, and a stubborn refusal to stop to synthesized backing. The funk intro to the new album “Zamorochki” is infinitely more complex than anything you’d expect from a band dimissed as primetime fodder. Likewise the videowork shows a great deal of humor and healthy self-deprecation, such as the newest video “Khvatit” (Stop It!). It showcases a smart and savvy album (even if concludes with a couple of pretty pointless karaoke tracks…). Anything that starts with this much twang can’t be bad.

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Originally performed by Alla Pugacheva (Алла Пугачёва),

Lyrics, Автор текста: Derbenov L. (Дербенев Л.)

Composer, Композитор: Sacepin A.  (Зацепин А.)

 

English:

Where is childhood going?

Where is childhood going?
What towns in?
Where can we find the means
Of getting there again?
It will go away stepping silently
While all town will sleep
And won’t write letters
And not for sure that will call up.

Both the wintertime and summertime
Waiting for fantastic miracle
Childhood will be somewhere
But won’t be here.
Both in the white snowdrifts
And in pools near to brook
Someone will run
But it won’t be me

Where is childhood going?
Where did it go?
Maybe in miracle place
Where everyday films are showed
Where moonlight flows
In the blue night like did here
But now we can’t find
Road to get there.

Both the wintertime and summertime
Waiting for fantastic miracle
Childhood will be somewhere
But won’t be here.
Both in the white snowdrifts
And in pools near to brook
Someone will run
But it won’t be me

Where is childhood going?
In places near to here
To neighbors’ children
Those are like I was.
It will go away stepping silently
While all town will sleep
And won’t write letters
And not for sure that will call up.

Both the wintertime and summertime
Waiting for fantastic miracle
Childhood will be somewhere
But won’t be here.
Both in the white snowdrifts
And in pools near to brook
Someone will run
But it won’t be me
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Russian:

Куда уходит детство, (Kuda uhodit detstvo)

Куда уходит детство,
В какие города?
И где найти нам средство,
Чтоб вновь попасть туда?
Оно уйдет неслышно,
Пока весь город спит,
И писем не напишет,
И вряд ли позвонит.

И зимой, и летом
Небывалых ждать чудес
Будет детство где-то,
Но не здесь.
И в сугробах белых,
И по лужам у ручья
Будет кто-то бегать,
Но не я.

Куда уходит детство?
Куда ушло оно?
Наверно, в край чудесный,
Где каждый день кино.
Где так же ночью синей
Струится лунный свет,
Но нам с тобой отныне
Туда дороги нет.

И зимой, и летом
Небывалых ждать чудес
Будет детство где-то,
Но не здесь.
И в сугробах белых,
И по лужам у ручья
Будет кто-то бегать,
Но не я.

Куда уходит детство?
В недальние края,
К ребятам по соседству,
Таким же, как и я.
Оно ушло неслышно,
Пока весь город спит,
И писем не напишет,
И вряд ли позвонит.

И зимой, и летом
Небывалых ждать чудес
Будет детство где-то,
Но не здесь.
И в сугробах белых,
И по лужам у ручья
Будет кто-то бегать,
Но не я.

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