Anna Carenina Quartet. The Heartfelt
Songs (1994)
Instrumental Compositions
It had all started in mid-70th when a group of students organized a Siberian Union for Monarchy in a small trans-Urals town of Verkhnezachatievsk. It was a complex blend of the ideas of Carlos Castaneda, local shaman’s potions and pro-monarchy added to remarkable talents and leadership skills of Zuy Mogila that had turned them into informal spiritual leaders of trans-Urals youth.
However a profound provincialism of local law enforcement and persistent excommunication from Moscow due to high waters had robbed them of the timely posthumous glory.
They’ve been arrested only in April 1988. Alas by that time pro-monarchy ideas were no longer punishable under the law. So two days later all Siberian Union for Monarchy (Ziy Mogila and his three comrades) was liberated. Profoundly shocked by such a grave injustice Zuy Mogila abandoned politics, made a vow of silence, and went to a remote hermitage ordering his comrade to keep on fighting by different methods.
That had signified the birth of Anna Carenina Quartet. Using ARP Odyssey synthesizer, tuba and a musical saw (a favorite instrument of their prison buddy – virtuoso, a hired killer with a golden heart nicknamed “Virtue”), the quartet was interpreting scores scraped on birch tree bark thrown from the window of Zuy Mogila.
The efforts of the Quartet were to a great extent hindered by lack of electric power in Verkhnezachatievsk due to many years of high water. Precious few have ever heard their music, though some of their work was by some miracle released in Tasmania by Ole Records Co. that disclaims any responsibility for the release of these records.
“The Heartfelt Songs” is the first full-fledged record of the quartet recorded during their tour of Mongolia. In the course of the recording Anna Carenina Quartet got assistance from: Andrei Romanov, Oleg Sakmarov, Alexei Zubarev, Andrei Reshetin, Sergei Berezovoi, Boris Grebenshikov, and sound technicians Dmitriy Lipay, Oleg Goncharov, and Alexander Martisov
(p) SoLyd Records, 1994 SLR 0021
© BG 1994
1. Bargeld’s Mirror
2. Morning In The Pine Forest
3. Captain Voronin Meets A Giant Ant
4. Strepetarch
5. Flutes Of The House Of Anacreonth
6. Natasha Rostova Plus
7. Life, Death and Other Amazing Deeds Of The Great Eremite (Anchorite)
8. My Childhood In Acid Log House
9. The Big Strepetarch Goes Hunting
10. Horse, What’s Your Name?
11. Hymn To Moscow Subway
12. White Birch Rides Again
13. Dawn On The Island Of Apples
14. M