Zvezdopad

Zvezdopad (Russian: Звездопад, meaning "Starfall" in Russian) is the 20th album by the Russian punk band Grazhdanskaya Oborona. The album was released on 20 March 2002 and consists of cover versions of classic Soviet songs.

Zvezdopad
Studio album by Grazhdanskaya Oborona
Released	20 March 2002
Recorded	GrOb Studio, August 2000-November 2001
Genre	Art rock, psychedelic rock, shoegaze, noise pop
Length	50:29
Label	GrOb/XOP/Misteria Zvuka (original CD/MC issue) Wyrgorod/Neuro Empire (2010 CD reissue/2011 LP reissue)
Producer	Egor Letov
Grazhdanskaya Oborona chronology
Nevynosimaya legkost bytiya (1997) Zvezdopad (2002) Dolgaya schastlivaya zhizn (2004)

History

Plans to record an album called Zvezdopad have existed in Egor Letov's journals since 1994. Many original handwritten track lists can be found at the GrOb website. One of these track lists even called for a version of Telstar to be recorded. The album itself was recorded during 2000 and 2001. It was finally released on 20 March 2002 on XOP/Moroz Records.

The launch party was held at the club "Tochka" in Moscow on 20 and 21 March of that year. The first pressing of the album came in a digipack, containing an absurdist painting of a tree with houses on its branches on the front cover which would later be reused for the CD issue in 2010. The booklet for that issue contained a painting of an antelope in a forest which would later be used on the 2011 vinyl reissue. Future pressings, as well as the Ukrainian first pressing, had an image of the band standing in the snow. That was issued in a standard jewel case.

In 2010, the album was reissued by Wyrgorod, who added three bonus tracks: a track called "Zachem snyatsya sny", recorded in the Zvezdopad sessions with bassist Natalia Chumakova on vocals and live versions of "Solnce vzoidet" and the Kommunizm song Tuman, recorded live at an Egor Letov concert in Barnaul in 2003. The 2011 vinyl reissue included a version of "Karavella" with Chumakova on vocals, in a jazz pop style evocative of Norah Jones. When originally recorded in 2000, the songs were instrumentals - Chumakova recorded her vocals in September 2007 when remastering the album.^[1]

The tracks "Shla voina" and "Zachem snyatsya sny?" were previously included on the Egor i Opizdenevshie album Psychodelia Tomorrow in 2002.

Track list

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
1.	"Песня красноармейца(Song of the Red Army man)" (из телефильма «Кортик»)	Bulat Okudzhava	Stanislav Pozhlakov	02:35
2.	"Песня о циркаче(The song about a man from circus)"	Mikhail Ancharov	Ilya Katayev	02:37
3.	"На дальней станции сойду(I will stop at the far station)"	Mikhail Tanich	Vladimir Shainsky	04:25
4.	"Шла война(The war went on)"	Bulat Okudzhava	Bulat Okudzhava	03:10
5.	"Звездопад(Star fall)"	Nikolai Dobronravov	Aleksandra Pakhmutova	02:50
6.	"Ветер северный(The Northern wind)"	Inna Goff	Yan Frenkel	02:05
7.	"Город детства(Childhood town)"	Robert Rozhdestvensky	Frank Miller	05:01
8.	"На всю оставшуюся жизнь(For the rest of his life)" (from «For the Rest of His Life»)	Pyotr Fomenko	Veniamin Basner	03:01
9.	"Слово — Товарищ(Word — Comrade)"	Mikhail Ancharov	Ilya Katayev	02:51
10.	"Каравелла(Caravella)"	В. Калле	В. Калле	02:45
11.	"Белое безмолвие(White silence)"	Vladimir Vysotsky	Vladimir Vysotsky	03:27
12.	"Красный конь(Red horse)"	Mikhail Plyatskovsky	Mark Fradkin	01:02
13.	"Песенка про чёрную гуашь и надежду(The song about black paint and hope)"	Vera Matveyeva	Vera Matveyeva	01:41
14.	"Солнце взойдёт(The Sun will rise)" (from «The Bremen Town Musicians»)	Yuri Entin	Gennady Gladkov	04:40
15.	"Я принял решение(I have decided)"	Grigory Pozhenyan	Mikael Tariverdiev	01:57
16.	"Свой среди чужих(Our man among strangers)" (from «At Home Among Strangers»)		Eduard Artemyev	05:18

Бонус-треки из переиздания 2010-го года

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
17.	"Зачем снятся сны"	Robert Rozhdestvensky	Stanislav Pozhlakov	5:34
18.	"Туман" (live)	Kim Ryzhov	Aleksandr Kolker	2:23
19.	"Солнце взойдёт" (live)			3:26

References

1. "ГрОб-Хроники | Гражданская Оборона — Звездопад".

External links

• Zvezdopad at Discogs