Текст песни Арсенал - Желтое небо

Album name: Arsenal - 6
Year of record: 1990
Producer: CCCP "Melody"
Compositions and arrangements by Alexei Kozlov

Artistic director
Alexey Kozlov
Alexey Kozlov,
alto and soprano saxophones, keyboards
Ivan Smirnov, guitar
Andrey Denisov, keyboards
Alexander Pishchikov,
tenor saxophone flute
Anatoly Kulikov, bass
Igor Javad-zade, drums
Valery Demin, percussion

Commentary by Alexei Kozlov: Arsenal -5. and Arsenal -6. - Two of these discs belong to the last period of the official philharmonic work of the ensemble. Concerts of these years were held without theatricality and break dance. By that time, a team had developed that can be compared with a well-functioning clockwork. When the country began to completely devastate and total deficit, touring practice became much more complicated. The Philharmonic simply dismissed us, not wanting to spend any effort on maintaining the collective. Among the compositions presented here, I would like to highlight "Envy", written by me in memory of the writer Yuri Olesha. It was he who raised the topic of envy in Soviet literature even before the beginning of Stalinist repressions. But the leaders knew everything in advance, planning the factor of envy in the mechanism of denunciation in the masses. Later, envy became one of the main motivating moments during the period of repressions, and Yuri Olesha with his book "Envy" was quietly banned back in the early 30s. At each concert, the soloists played this play in completely different ways, quoting certain fragments of pathos of Soviet melodies. Usually, after the play ended, the people in the hall sat for a while and did not clap. The applause began only a few seconds later. It was a natural reaction, as the play was scary.