Songs of anger and powerlessness

“Aigel”, “Komsomolsk”, Sveta Ben, Glory Tolstoy, Gusha Katushkin - about everyday life impregnated with war

The war penetrates us, impregnates, forces us to correlate any words and actions with itself, becomes part of life. Even the most carefree and far from the political agenda musicians felt this. In the ninth month of the war, there are no those who are outside, even if someone thinks so. You sing about love or youth - and this is love during the war and youth destroyed by the war. Nowhere is it from her not to get away in the fall of 2022.

Sveta Ben, Galya Chikis. "Black Bidons"

The joint work of the electrician Gali Chikis and the poetess, actresses, in the recent past, the leader of the cult Belarusian group “Silver Wedding” of Sveta Ben. The poem was written last year under the impression of repressions in Belarus and entered the program with which Ben spoke on Russian sites.

And this record was made in Berlin in the new conditions. Gloomy, bewitching, ascetic, it is not so much about the war and repressions as about the experience of experiencing injury.

“To survive, I need to forget all this, I need to forget all this in order to survive,” the actress conjures, persuades himself. And he summarizes: “It is unlikely that it will work out. Time perfectly treats only those who do not cripple much. ”

This is not pessimism, not cries that life is over. Rather, a statement that with this injury, with this terrible experience, you will have to live on. He will not go anywhere.

On December 9, Ben and Chikis are a full -format album.

Aigel. "Gas"

The Aigel electronic duet, which at one time, became a hit of Tatar, has never been particularly funny, but Aigel Gaysin has not yet recorded such terrible songs.

*"From the stove of gas ash

I will fall asleep into the urn - it's you

And I'm on the kitchen floor

I will fall asleep at the gas stove*

*Neighboring son in a foreign land

Will decompose gas and gas

And up the gas pipe

Will rise to visit us*

*I will turn the handle of the pen

I will catch the right wave

Reception, as you can hear, is hell

Missing soldier*

*Cozy blue light

The Fatherland will sell the enthusiasm

In winter he will warm the guy

Which of them, which of us? "*

It is difficult to come up with a more terrible metaphor: the dead turn into gas and warm the living. All this is not even sung even, but rather simply pronounced in a monotonon-bearing voice, and this is even worse. “A cozy blue light is a two hundredth gas,” says Aigel. Death entered not just in the information agenda or the life of a large country, but in the life of everyone. Now she is every minute with us. To say that we have nothing to do with it.

Komsomolsk. "From our window"

The composition from the new album of the indie group Komsomolsk-Komsomolsk-0. Outwardly carefree, involved on the aesthetics of the Soviet 60s, Komsomolsk recorded, perhaps, the most difficult album in its discography. You turn on, and delicate girlish voices lead: "And from our window the area of ​​black is visible, from our window the end of the world is visible." Sensation - as if they broke a fragile doll with pink hair, and a heartbreaking scream, a cry of despair, is heard from her stomach instead of a flirty squeak.

*"Future in the chest of owl-izhik-uzhik

The knife on the handle in its frail body with tears stick it. ”*

A knife in a frail body of the future.

Listva. "Tears of powerlessness"

The project of the Kharkov musician Gushi Katushkin and his wife Alice. In September, Katushkin released a beautiful romantic album “Fantastic Beings”. The "foliage" also has a new album on the way. The most amazing in all this is the time of recording. Almost all songs are recorded this summer in Kharkov, in a hot season of Russian shelling and active hostilities. It is difficult to believe, but the fact: the music of the besieged city.

“Tears of powerlessness”, as Katushkin wrote to me, “perfectly accurately describes my attitude to the bloody farce. I can’t feel anything but powerlessness in this situation. ”

As a result, he got a hymn of timid, weak and passive. Those who cannot do anything, and this is now the majority of the population of the planet. And they also have a voice, he breaks through the shelling. This is their way of resistance. The muffled chime of guitar, a delicate melody, a delicate voice and a rather uncompromising text:

*"Reproach active timid:

“Not on those you stick out the tablets,

What kind of vegetables in your boxes,

Your cranial and thoracic cells? ”*

*Reply humble with impudent:

“Wars are fed by your anger.

Like you, we are not childishly stormed,

But we make other waves. "*

These are waves of mercy, not mutual hatred.

Glory Tolstoy. "You are outside"

The American guitarist-virtuoso Glory Tolstoy, a participant in many jazz projects, partner Fedor Chistyakov in American concerts, wrote down a song about people outside politics who try not to pay attention to the burning homes and killed civilians. It turns out that there are a lot of such in America.

In style, this is the most Russian rock, but more honest and bolder at times. Many Russian rockers today cannot afford this, they are just in the position of "outside."

*"Children torn by bombs - outside!

A bitter share of millions of people - outside!

A sea of ​​lying Kremlin leaders - you are outside! ..

A killer and a thief burst into the house,

He cuts your brothers, rape the sisters.

He has a place in hell, that's the whole conversation.

And you are all singing "Kumbai!" - What a shame! "*

Small note. "Kumbai" is an African-American ritual song. In American idiomatics - a synonym for a shameful compromise.

But what the glory wrote to me by prose about this song and about his position:

“I have friends here in America, which occupy a neutral,“ philosophical ”position in relation to war. For me, this is nonsense: you can’t remain indifferent, you can’t hide behind the mantra and meditations when innocent women and children are killed every day in Ukraine. One of the rare situations in history has developed, when it is clear as a day, where is good and where evil.

I often watch a video with people's surveys in Russia. There are adequate people who understand everything and call a spade a spade. There are finished Putinoids, everything is clear with them. Of particular interest is those who smile (for some reason they smile for some reason) and says: “I am outside politics, I just live, I don’t understand anything, it doesn’t concern me.”

I want to shout loudly in the ear: “No !!! This already concerns you and will affect even more. When you come for you and send cannon meat to the front. When deprived of the latest savings and work. When it is incomprehensible for what (the wrong post for like? For going for beer and was next to the rally?) ”. So I shouted. They took out these "all-no one-digit." Because of them, criminals who have seized power in Russia do with people everything that will be embarrassed to them. ”