Album that changed everything: "Marine" "Mummy Troll" marks the 16th anniversary of

It seems like it was yesterday. In fact, the first studio album "Mummy Troll" forever changed the domestic music came April 241997.

Vladivostok, a native of the city, heard the album, which became, without belittling, historical, before anyone else. The first batch of cassettes group has delivered here almost half a year earlier, giving away, including on the radio station. By the time the "mummy-mania" was just beginning to grasp the country, we already knew all the songs by heart.

"Sea" - the unique case in which all the songs from the debut album became hits. "Funneling", "girl", "cat cat", "Fun" - should read the title, and in my head starts to play music. Automatically because any means and forces her out of there not corrode.

Around the book as a cult around any thing turns a lot of legends. Ilya Lagutenko gladly do our best to them getting bigger. "Suddenly the train had gone," they say, is dedicated to St. Petersburg, where the leader of the "Troll" hit in the winter of 1985. Of course, no mention of the realities of St. Petersburg in the song is not so with about the same success it could be devoted to Moscow, Beijing, Tokyo, London or any other city of the number who played a prominent role in the life of Lagutenko.

"Funneling", according to the official version, composed directly during recording. However, anyone interested can easily find online demo of 1990. The miracle of nature? Looper? A hole in time? In the case of the "Mummy Troll" faithful may be any version.

"Girl" was originally recorded in Chinese. In nature, there is no one seen by a clip for this song, which was taken at a trendy London private club, but after seeing rejected. Text "Puss Puss" Lagutenko dug out of rough recordings of his youthful poems with Sartre called "Vomit." The keys to the "funneling" Ilya snitched one finger almost by accident. "Fun" Lagutenko were born under the influence of the huge increase in Vladivostok early 90th banditry. The list is endless.

The music of this level of inner freedom, overt sexuality and frankness, played by Russian and sung in Russian, in those years, it was impossible to imagine. Ball roll into the abyss of the rules of heroin madness "Agatha Christie" decaying "Nautilus Pompilius" and "foot Svelo!" managed to collect stadiums. "Sea" was published and soon it became clear that this group has come to stay, the music changed forever.

16 years ago, the author of these lines was 12 years old, but "Marine" was acquired in the first week of launch. I can safely say without this album, the cover of which is threaded through a colander adorned with yellow thread of pasta (do not know a single person who would have guessed this myself), I - this way I grew up - simply would not exist. We have such - for a generation. This album, which I am eternally grateful, grateful for the fact that he has been with me all my adult life. And it will be for as long as I live.

Thank you, "Marine." Live forever. Happy birthday.