Unknown songs

In brief: not all songs are unknown, though these versions of 'In search of a subject', 'The Last Hero' and 'The Summer' are unique (songs 1-5 of this album were recorded in 1985 at Yansheeva studio; at that time Kino was made of Tsoi, Kasparyan, Titov and Gurianov). In this release there are also songs recorded in 1982 at Leningrad Dramatic Theatre studio (with Valery Kirillov, future 'Zoopark' drummer, and Alexey Rybin, who was one of 'Kino' founders in 1981); bonus tracks - songs recorded at a home concert in 1982 (vocal - Tsoi and Rybin). Among bonus tracks there is a wonderfully boring variant of Grebenshikov's 'Railroad Water'. Rare songs sung by a legend.

Quots: 'The thing that happens to Tsoi today is very much the same as the one that has happened to Bob Dylan. When Dylan has been giving concerts in the hairy seventies, he has not been very well known. And now crowds are going mad with him, like he's a superstar. He is not a star. It's just a legend. Same thing has happened to Tsoi'. (Tropillo)

Feeling: unfortunately, there's no feeling of integrity in this album. Alas.