Completely missing

The new album of the Auktsyon group is a big memorable trip

This is the case when you clearly understand that it is unlikely that something more significant in Russian rock music will appear in the near future. The Auktsyon group released the album "in the sun" (the previous one - "Yula" - was released in 2011).

“On the Sun” is just a tenth (except for joint entries with Alexei Khvostenko ) an album of the group created in Leningrad in 1978.

The leader of the group Leonid Fedorov records solo albums annually. But before the recording of new songs in the Auktsyon, hands reach about once every five years. But this is always something important.

About the previous album “Yula” “PG” wrote : “ All songs in the album version are very short. The time of their sound in minutes, like price tags in a cheap shop: 2.19, 2.18, 2.32 ”. What is the time of the sound of new songs like that in this case? 9 minutes 44 seconds, 7.15, 8.06 ... The shortest thing opens the album and lasts 6.04. It ends everything with a composition, the sound time of which is 10.26. There is where to walk around the wind section.

The beginning of the album turned out to be violent, hard, uncompromising. So the Auktsyon sounds when it gives rare concerts. However, with every five -year period, the difference between the studio and concert work of these musicians is becoming more ghostly. Once, Leonid Fedorov, regarding studio work, said: " Unauthorized songs are the most" pumping "." This time, during a record in the studio at Mosfilm, a lot was improvised. The sound turned out to be truly alive .

Why what Auktsyon does is still considered rock music? Just because in this music there is something that "shakes." Inside there is a spring that straightens at the right time. There is someone to start and establish a complex mechanism called Auktsyon.

The author of the texts of the Group Klavizhnik Dmitry Ozersky composes in the spirit of the Oberiuts. There can be no direct binding to the surrounding reality in them. But at the same time, our gloomy era is reflected in the new album with the solar name.

The album “In the Sun” on the first day of summer was presented in St. Petersburg in the form of an application for a smartphone. It begins to play when sunlight enters it. It would seem that when the sunlight gets to the listener, something radiating optimism should come to, in the spirit of Optimystica Orchestra, Evgeny Fedorov. But Auktsyon, as usual, takes away in a completely different direction. “ In my speeches, the fascist shouted: the east is my eyes,” Leonid Fedorov sings in the song “Son” that opens the album under the whirlwind of the winds (the Auctsion has always been a memorable combination of tube, pipes, saxophones, bass -plate and thrombone Yuri Parfyonov, Nikolai Rubanov and Mikhail Kolovsky).

Grow, grow, without joy.
Bloom, bloom, without maturity.
Sadness, sadness without tenderness.

The sound of the second thing “day and night” is much easier. The song moves in the rhythm of the knock of railway wheels that is familiar to the “Auktsyon” ( “There is no tears where there are no stars”). What would that mean? Maybe that where there are stars, there are tears?

And then, probably, the main composition on the album begins: "Gone." It can already be included in the list of the best that the musicians of the group have been recorded in more than thirty years. There are such words in the song: "And I sang a cold and chilly // in a forgotten language ..."

Yes, Auktsyon sings a cold and chilly in a forgotten language. If we once knew this wonderful language, we have long forgotten. However, sometimes an insight suddenly comes. Something is remembered. Music sways the pendulum. The clock sound and awaken.

Nobody told me that I was gone,
And I shouted. Nobody heard me.
I took a coat, offended and went out ...

I was engaged in radio sports for a schoolboy. Maybe that's why some Solo of Auktsyon remind me of endless SOS signals (three points, three dashes, three points). “ No one told me that I was gone, // that I was lost, abandoned and not found ...” The rhythm is inexorable.

For all its Russian longing and Russian anxiety, Auktsyon is firmly connected with the whole world. Gobi desert, mountains of Nepal ... And there is not far and to the lunar landscapes. Real space tourism.

Despite the name of the plate, the moon is mentioned there at least than the sun. But by the middle of the album it was time to fall.

“The moon has fallen” is a quiet and thoughtful thing. They slammed the window, and immediately stopped blowing. You can slightly relax, take your breath ... Such a text as in this song could probably write the showman of the group Oleg Garkush , but this time (not the first time) he was not attracted to the creation of the album.

Auktsyon continues to develop, violating the rules, more precisely - creating its own rules.

“The Moon has fallen” is a romance that the leader of the Auctsyon loves to include in his solo projects (Leonid Fedorov and the founder of Volkovrio Vladimir Volkov in April 2016, the Thunderstorm, was released).

Then they go (floating, take off) “Seagulls”. This is a call song ( “Shout // Screaming all my seagulls // back // back, I do not promise ...”). Again, “swinging” and jazz twisters of the winds begins ... judging by the melody, this song would be organic in the 1991 album “Bodun”. But in the album “In the Sun” she is in its place. On the copper winds, the sun's rays begin to sparkle especially to the end. It's time for the second or third time to enter the same river and swim, “swim”. Go to distant swimming.

The song "Swim" is complete calm. Contemplation. You sit in full calm at the stern, carefully dangle your feet, look lazily with the fallen moon and sing under the boatswain whistle: “The choice of ours is warm in the warmth // and pulls the song crew: // - Ah, we are water, that water, // We are floating back and forth, // Do not drop, do not change, just sail ...”

So, the moon had already fallen by this time. After the moon, as expected, the sun rises. “In the Sun” is, as if, the most optimistic thing in this album (“I am on a hollow, I am like a hollow, // only a holnes flies and a wave is walking!”). But this is also an optimism with a catch (“to be on a hollow, live on a hollow, // and never get back”).

It's time to bear a ruthless sentence: "The world is melting." This is the name of the final composition. The insinuating beginning, slow entry into the water ... "Shout, // All my seagulls shout. // back, // back, I do not promise ... ".

If the "Seagulls" is a appeal song, then the "world melts" - this is a long farewell. You can say goodbye in chorus, swaying and singing: "Do not cry, the world melts // Moscow, China."

Why tears? The world is thinned. Everything is smaller. Enjoy, of course, is not enough, but what can I do? " Less, all thinner // and Cuba and Poland." Do not hang around because of this? “ Less and thinner, smaller, thinner // everything melts, everything drowns // and people and horses ...”

The album “In the Sun” resembles a powerful block, which is not clear how it turned out to be on the deserted shore.

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It turns out that not everything is gone. In the central composition of the album, we hear: " But I did not find out that I was gone." Nobody bothered our hero to say. There was no one to open his eyes and ears. And it encourages. I would have learned - I lowered my hands. And so he lives in ignorance, sings songs, tramples, heses and shoves a childishly, looking at a rare sun.