"Na" inside my mind

This year, the Nautilus Pompilius group celebrates the mysterious 30th anniversary. Mysterious-because Sverdlovsk architects of Architectors Glory to Butusov and Dima Umetsky organized the first group in 1978, “Nautilus” became in 1982, and “Nautilus Pompilius”-only in 1985. However, the songs “Sc” and the figure of their performer Vyacheslav Butusova were always enveloped in a slight haze of mystery. At the request of COLTA . RU Poet Elena Fanailova decrypted some of the texts especially important for her, the basis of the songs, presenting her own sirological topography of Nautilus.

1. "Wings"

"You take off your evening dress, standing facing the wall." Ilya Kormiltsev

Evening dresses of that era were cheap Turkish or Polish fakes. Perhaps this is one of the dresses of Patricia from the "three comrades", for example, from Balenciag. This is the only book that told late Soviet young people that you can wear good brands and ride expensive cars and being a completely anarchist character. The brands of clothes of the girl of this generation and a circle of reading were studied not by glossy magazines, but according to the second-hand-hads of the early nineties, relying on the European literary primary sources.

Those who did not die of love, alcohol and drugs, in gang show and from heart attacks, I still believe, sings karaoke.

This is one of the classic pop cultural schemes: a man and a woman after a party, a woman undresses in front of a partner, both think about sex and fatigue (whether they have a night of love or she will say that her head hurts from wine); He is sad that she is no longer an angel (or a demon). Probably, they are together for several years, out of marriage of both, they meet periodically, it is not so inspired by him as at the first meeting. I can easily imagine the advertising video of the French perfume or an episode from Dan Brown under this soundtrack. In general, the word "liked" in relation to the wings of a friend is quite terrible. The frontal meaning of the song was that “now we have things to do: to prove that the strong one eats the weak, to prove that Sazha Bela was read as a protest against any system. Where did this couple come from? From the party in the house of the architect in Sverdlovsk? From the reception at the embassy? Judging by the "evening dress", they are a little over thirty, they are slightly respectable. We all lost something in this crazy war. By the way, where are your wings that I liked so much? You can sing karaoke.

2. "I want to be with you"

“I tried to get away from love. I took a sharp razor and ruled myself. ” Ilya Kormiltsev

All restaurant Labukhs of the Motherland had this work in their repertoire from about 93rd to 98th year. The couples slowly moved to decadent and at the same time pop music. The drive of the text corresponded to the realities of the initial accumulation of capital. Cruel novels and romances were popular in the province. Then such gender manifestos gave way, alas, chanson. Socidal and pseudosucidal demonstrative behavior was widespread among comrades. Those who did not die of love, alcohol and drugs, in gang show and from heart attacks, I still believe, sings karaoke.

3. "Diamond roads"

"Burning over us, burning, darkening mind, diamond roads in the dark." "To cling to the glass, you need diamond claws." Ilya Kormiltsev

The ingenious first musical version is baroque, rich. "I go out on the road." Tyutchev. Rilke. Tsvetaeva. Russian cosmism, crazy Fedorov. It is very difficult to sing karaoke.

4. "Prince of silence"

“But only we should not look around. Moan, crack. The kindest prince would trample me. ” Andre Adi

The legend says that the student of the Sverdlovsk Architectural Institute of Butusov bought a collection of translations of Andrey in Kiosk Soyuz Printing at the bus stop. I have this book, still the subject of literary meditation on central Europe of the beginning of the twentieth century. Adi was the star of the Hungarian avant -garde, Hungarian Mayakovsky, Levak, an alcoholic, a man with crazy novels. The main author of the main Budapest magazine of the aesthet-modernists of the early twentieth century “ Nugat ” (“West”). This text was translated by Leonid Martynov. Probably his best translation, not to mention the original works. Psychedelic presentation in the version of the musicians "Na". It is completely impossible to sing karaoke.

5. "Haki color"

"Marsh-march left, march of the right." Ilya Kormiltsev

It exists in an irrevocable unconscious, in the Kabaret and Night Porter movie zone. Karaoke is easily sung.

6. "Walks on the water"

"Lay on it, and when you get tired, go back." Ilya Kormiltsev

I remember the text almost by heart. The history of the awareness of post -Soviet Christianity by identifying with the characters of the Gospel, no worse than the movie Mel Gibson, the son of an American sectarian. Any fool will sing karaoke.

7. "Titanic"

"Rats go ashore in the nearest port in the hope of escaping." "Stuard pours fire on glasses." "And the judge and the priest argue all night, finding out whose fault is." Ilya Kormiltsev

Of course, the last phrase is the “plague” of Alber Camus. The first is too clear. The second is from the European pop world. Karaoke is difficult.

8. "Gibraltar, Labrador"

"Gibraltar, Labrador." George Gunitsky

The rest of the text can be forgotten, but the tempo is beautiful. The only thing I love after Krymiltsev left the authors of the group. I heard her inside the mind when Gibraltar was crossed on a ferry from Spain in Morocco eight years ago. Powerful water, powerful shores, ruthless light, the outskirts of the once great empire of sailors and conquerors, dry, killing Europeans of the Arab world. Renewal in battle, gloomy abyss on the edge, then along the classic text. Karaoke is sung without text, like mooing.

9. "Sirano de Bergerac" Rostean

Episodes when Sirano offers a handsome officer to read his love text in order to seduce Roxanne. It seems here Ilya Kormiltsev, who does not fully explain to Vyacheslav Butusov why this whole story is undertaken, and he goes on stage with a romantic epaulet on his shoulder, with the pale make -up of Pierrot, with the voice of the fallen angel. Girls and boys are in frustration, love is won, death is defeated.