DDT

One -time. Part I

And the ATS "Uninningness. Part I ”corresponded four times and, as a result, unexpectedly acquired a conceptual form, previously completely unusual music“ DDT ”. Perhaps on this album the musicians first tried to give the arrangements independent musical value. They moved away from the traditional non -calling accompaniment with the invariable “verse - chorus” scheme and an obligatory dull guitar loss that repeats the melody of the chorus. Instead, they used rhythmic interruptions, complicated and carefully thought out parties of individual instruments, having achieved a variety of and interesting sound. On the disk there is even one instrumental composition phenomenon for DDT is unheard of.

The texts have changed too. This time, the famous truth -seeker Yuri Shevchuk devoted to ideologically sustained songs only half of the album, leaving the second for politically neutral lyrics. True, he could not resist and in the witty everyday sketch “The Night Play” inserted a village of ditties about Putin either to the city or to the city. Shevchuk sings little, more calmly - without a tear and pathos - reads poetry to music.

Something, of course, remains the same. For example, a careless manner of handling words characteristic of Shevchuk. Its texts, sometimes celested, are decorated with intricate metaphors like "unanimity of shooting shadows."

The didacticity and the strict intonation of the school teacher of physical education remained (as Nikolay Fomenko called Shevchuk at one time). Nevertheless, the disk "Uninitide. Part 1 ” - an attempt to rethink your own creative task. By this, he, in fact, is valuable.

Shevchuk is the only major musician who is still faithful to the ideals of the Soviet rock of the 80s. And his music suffers from diseases of that era - unjustified pathos, straightforwardness and intolerance. But, obviously, there should be in a wide field of absolutely toothless and, according to the aptly expressed one of the DJ, “dietary” Russian rock alone here is such a Yuri Shevchuk. Only all the time the words of Boris Vakhtin from the book of Sergei Dovlatov come to mind: “Do not write with eras and cataclysms! Do not write with passions and locomotives! And you write, fools, letters - a, b, c ... "About Svyatoslav Biryulin: 3 non -omaditions cases