| U.: Recorded in the same basement. There's only one new song, the last (title) one, written after I visited one of my old friends (the one who had named me Umka and whom I'd had a great crush on). "I've known you for 20 years, first time at your place.. Your wife is like an angel, cooking cakes, your children are eager to recite poems for us, you're a bit sick but it's OK. You were spinning this heaven over your head, you could lift the earth with one hand, you were the lonely warrior fighting with the war, and now you are in this paradise, the Veterans' Heaven". (Unfortunately, the guy died in 2005 of blood cancer). All the other songs are back from '86-87, rather well known among our crowd, but the old versions on the home made tapes were unbearably improper, so I decided to make them all right. The nightingale of the hidden track was recorded to a home tape recorder put on the window pane; it was in May, we lived near one of the Moscow best parks Izmailovo, large and beautiful like a real wood. |
Umka & Bro
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Songs by Umka, music by Umka & Bro Umka - voice
Recorded in Spring 2002 with the help of A.Kalagov and his computer. Mixed in Fall 2002 by Ian Survillo (MYM) and Bro. Mastering by E.Gapeev. Artwork by Roman Furman (influenced by Alton Kelley's Jefferson Airplane - Grateful Dead poster, 1968). Black and white sketch by Boris K. Design by D.Dziuba and Umka Otdelenie Vyhod & Bro :) 2002. All rights allegedly reserved Fish Of Glass my footsteps are so slight and weak I'm feeling oh so light and meek I feel so easy as I pass I'm feeling like a fish of glass the wind is whistling through my bone the crowd is leaving me alone the cloud of crowd around me spins they are afraid of needles and pins so narrow is my path to step I've got little horns beneath my cap I've got little hooves inside my boots to scare the cops and other dudes so light to pass, so hard to catch I feel just like a burning match I feel just like a leave of grass I feel just like a fish of glass Loving Way When you walk loving way Is it loving away To & fro Round the clock night and day Always ready to stay Or go Way of seeing a flash Way of losing your flesh Snow & rain Lie - lay - my - may - Loving way I will never complain, Never show me your pain Loving way Here's a gun for the killer We all may be killers, I say For delay or decay There is no one to blame And claim Game - flame - no name - Loving way Chorus: I will paint my guitar All lilac and purple I will rush through the backdoor Into silvery world I will enter your glass store In heavy big boots Smash - crash - flash - splash Loving way You may say anything You may take it and sing - It's a song Once I dreamt of two rivals Trying to fight for a girl The mistake was the lake Both naked in bright summer day Oh, and water is hard to be cruel and smash Only flash - splash - slow - blow Loving way Chorus: California oh my friend when we wake up, in the end on the beach in California, then I'll hand you a handful of sand - but now you wait - here at night we share one cigarette's light flying high as a kite and you'll just hold me tight but later on time will pass the light was too small to last and a room was a thing to pass destroyed by a mighty fire bells will ring and we'll remember life's a dream and the water will be so clean in the dream forever blue and green la la la la in California, by the sea and the dream is so clear and free forever for you and me |
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