Track Listing

  1. Tram
  2. Coal
  3. I'm Wasting My Time
  4. Mirrorless Room
  5. Sergeev the Watchman
  6. Silent Film
  7. Wildmen's Blues
  8. The Other Side of the Looking Glass
  9. My Star
  10. My Friend the Doctor
  11. The Electric Dog
  12. The Russian Blues
  13. Afanasiy Nikitin Boogie or Traveling the Three Seas-2
  14. Two Trains
  15. Under a Bridge Like Chkalov
  16. New Song About the Motherland
  17. Tea

Oracle of the Blessed Bottle (Оракул Божественной Бутылки)

unreviewed

First released in 2010.

Review

Large

Boris Notes

It once occurred to me that a concert isn't that much different from celebrating a birthday: in a concert I sing first, then drink some light wine; at a birthday, I drink first, then sing. And further—at a concert there's possibility of setting up an apparatus and making homestyle music together. I bethought myself: what would happen if we combined these two forms of celebration?

The experiment was undertaken on November 28, 1998 at the Moscow club "Oracle of the Blessed Bottle," with the participation of a small group of friends and close acquaintances. The result was a touching evening and the recording you are now holding.