“One step forward, two steps back”

The compositions featured in this album were written in the 2000s, before the band’s first disc was made. After over ten years the world’s changed, and probably we have as well. But has this become a different world?
As we are standing by the highway of pop music, we can take our time and contemplate what happened, what is happening now, and we can dream about tomorrow. Another world is possible, isn’t it ?

This album consists of 6 songs and one instrumental track. Most of the musical material was written when the band was still forming. It was a great time of creative inspiration. lyrics were partly written in Russian, and partly in English. Five songs along with two others was recorded and released as a demo CD in 2006 as well as published on the very first band’s website. Subsequently we had decided to postpone the final release and had started to work on Klubkin’s Voyage.

The whole material was revised and recorded again almost from scratch. We made lot of translation work to prepare both Russian and English versions for almost every song. We did not yet recorded all vocal tracks by now, but we are planning to release English version of the album later.

Instruments

Tracklist

1. Snow (7.58) (lyrics)

   My heart was pounding in temples
   From the celestial chambers
   Falling like snowstorm’s white feathers
   Somebody’s stray crazy soul is returning from heavens.

   Should it get through the Milky Way lost in the shadows
   With the weary wings to embrace sleeping meadows
   I’ll watch snowflakes in dim grey light
   Open my window and let them inside.

   Desperately spreading their wings
   Souls fly in fresh winter winds,
   Soft plumes dropped generously down
   Cover the crowns of trees and the streets of my town.

   Calm and free is the soar of a soul in its reverie
   Like an eager bird knocking deep in my memory
   Leaving traces I scarcely see
   The clean sheet of paper of years yet to be.

   Somebody’s stray crazy soul is returning from heavens!

   Just to hover down from the dizzy height
   As a sparkle of fire for the poet’s mind
   To reveal to the earth and me
   The clean sheet of paper of years yet to be.

2. Another World (12.36) (lyrics)

   You run across the fields.
   You sail around the Earth.
   You know your soul will never die and you’re glad.
   You drift beneath the waves.
   You dwell in deepest forest.
   You smile to people; they’ve never seen you being sad.

   Some think you’re fool,
   And they’re right in their own way.
   But they don’t know
   Beyond their mind
   There’s Another World
   Without noise
   Without war
   This is your choice.

   You dream about the water like a diamond sparkling in the sun. It’s real!
   You dream about starlight in the clear sky, in Another World it’s real!!
   There’s the only place where you can fall into your dream.
   It’s Another World!!!

   He lives quiet live
   He’s got children and wife.
   He thinks that woe won’t happen and he’s glad
   He’s got a widescreen TV
   That’s showing nothing.
   And laughs at folks who think another way.

   And who is right?
   And who is wrong
   There’s the sense to reach Another World.
   No one can judge; it’s up to you.
   But don’t forget:
   The time is passing through.

3. Behold (5.50) (lyrics)

   We
   Stand alone
   Up the hill
   Where we climbed so hard to this edge of the world

   We
   Look behind
   Just to see
   What we lose if we jump
   Jump ahead to the void

   Void
   Is where man came from long ago
   Nature gave him power and will
   So he used it
   And he does it more and more
   That new void becomes so real

   Behold!
   This what we lose
   Where are our sense and feel?

   When people had started exploiting The Earth
   The profits were high but they thought
   Not enough! Not enough! Not enough!
   Thousands pipes have grown up
   Piercing the sky
   Millions wheels on millions roads
   Will drown us in a giant bath

   Behold!
   We’ve lost for words
   It’s better to run away!

   Still we stand up the hill
   We’re waiting for you
   All the answers you have to bring
   Don’t know where to go
   Don’t know where to turn
   Don’t know what to do
   Hope you have just started to think

   Behold!

4. ’86 (7.21) (lyrics)

   That phone call at night
   Pierced my disordered mind,
   There came a sunless dawn,
   Time to reap what we have sown.
   One quiet April day
   Someone played weird game,
   Dangerous tests can’t be undone,
   Fools we were to think we’ve won.

   Our thoughts confused and plans obscure,
   Feel so scared and insecure,
   Got too little time to spare –
   Nuclear poison in the air!

   Then came another shock,
   Blood ticks like a clock.
   Blind stats will report
   Who will live and who will not.
   Facing this tragic hour
   When the portent source of power
   Just imposed its own will
   We understood the threat was real.

   Our thoughts made up and plans are clear,
   Ought to go away from here,
   It will spread on everywhere –
   Nuclear poison in the air!

   Dark chaos of running years.
   Dark stream of memories
   Pulls us in its gloomy depths,
   So in full we’ve paid the debts.
   Fatal harm we could restrain,
   Dumb reproach through growing pain,
   Buried pride, extinguished dream
   Echo in a silent scream.

   So what is there behind the curtain?
   Every new day is uncertain,
   Will it strike or will it spare?
   Hazy future in the air…

5. Then and Here (5.23)
6. Motion (10.32)
7. Space Wanderer (5.34) (lyrics)

   Cleaving through space-time continuum
   With destination unknown
   Measuring parsecs a mystic wanderer
   Rushes ahead on and on

   Mildly in this hi-tech palace
   Flows diffused silver light,
   And thousands of knobs play on glassy panels
   Though none operates them inside.

   Alien to every being,
   Safe by Eternity’s side
   Wandering strange Flying Dutchman,
   What are you trying to find?
   Here’s a shining blue planet,
   A grain in the outer space,
   And astrophysical sensors will register
   Surges in radio waves.

   Will we be happy to meet him
   ‘Cross atmospheric frontiers?
   You know, this marvelous ghost, this mysterious wanderer
   Keeps rushing forward for years.

   Alien to every being,
   Safe by Eternity’s side
   Wandering strange Flying Dutchman,
   What are you trying to find?

   Time counts seconds and quantums
   Slowly resounding in mind,
   Look, the immense rings of Saturn
   Already are left far behind.

   Soon comes the Jupiter’s orbit,
   A giant with cloudy spurts
   Where huge icy rocks spin in powerful whirlwind
   That twists them like white paper birds.

   Still the untiring space pilgrim
   Flies by Eternity’s side,
   There is no barrier to stop him,
   Something he’s trying to find.
   Far stars are moving in circles,
   Wish one were like our sun.
   To dark abysses your soul calls
   Waiting for wonder to come.

   So, it will suddenly happen,
   You’ll not believe your own eyes
   When one misty morning with first shafts of sunrise
   The spaceship descends from the skies.

   Alien to every being,
   Safe by Eternity’s side
   Wandering strange Flying Dutchman,
   What are you trying to find?

   Still the untiring space pilgrim
   Flies by Eternity’s side,
   There is no barrier to stop him,
   Something he’s trying to find.

Total duration: 54.14