Leniniana () is the twelfthAccording to the official GrOb-Records albumography of 1990 and judging by the inscription "Vol. 12" on the album cover of the HOR edition. studio album of the Soviet conceptual band Kommunizm. It is a sound collage based on the phonogram of the film Lenin in October, published on a gramophone record by the Melodiya company. Yegor Letov and Konstantin Ryabinov glued inserts together, they played various musical compositions backwards and added third-party records from the field of concrete music, thereby creating a montage mystifying the personality of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin in a humorous manner.
The album was officially released on Caravan Records and HOR in 2001,See references in the Release history section. and it was reissued on April 22, 2013, by Wyrgorod.Wyrgorod: "The comes out on April 22, 2013" – which came out, by the way, and was announced by the publisher the day before release (see adjacent reference and reference of section 4).
About the album
Track listing
2001 Caravan edition (MC)
A-side Лениниана *
B-side Лениниана *
All tracks were recorded on September 23, 1989, at the GrOb-studio in Omsk.
2001 HOR edition (CD)
GrOb-studio, Omsk: Track 1 was recorded on September 23, 1989. Tracks 2–4 were recorded on March 26–28, 1989.
2013 Wyrgorod edition (CD)
GrOb-studio, Omsk: Tracks 1–13 were recorded on September 23, 1989. Track 14 was recorded in early April, 1989. Tracks 15, 17, 19–20, and 24 were recorded on March 26–28, 1989. Tracks 16 and 22 were recorded on March 20–21, 1989. Tracks 18, 21, and 23 were recorded on May 15–17, 1989. SP Krylya Sovetov, Moscow: Track 25 was recorded on July 4, 1997.
Personnel Credits are adapted from the album liner notes.
Kommunizm Yegor Letov – editing, effects, industrial Kuzya Uo – effects, vocals on "Lyubit delat tak...", industrial, saxophone Arkasha Klimkin – drums on "Leninskiy hardkor"
Production Yegor Letov – mixing, restoration, artwork, design Natalia Chumakova – mixing, restoration, mastering, design Kuzya Uo – artwork Evgeny Kolesov, GrOb-records archive – photography
Uncredited personnel Diana Letova – vocals on "Eto bylo v gorode ChK" and "Epilog"
Release history +OfficialCountryDateFormatLabelCatalogRussia2001See the Released line on Discogs.MCCaravanCAR 104GrOb-Hroniki – Caravan Records, MC2001See the Released line on Discogs (link 1 & link 2). HORApril 22, 2013See the Released line on Discogs.CD WyrgorodВЫРГОРОД 103GrOb-Hroniki – Wyrgorod, CD
Trivia According to Oleg "Manager" Sudakov, the album Leniniana is one of the most successful creations of Kommunizm:
Despite the declared of creation in Manager's blog, the album information on the back cover indicates —and so in all official releases of various labels. Most of the bonus tracks are taken from the album Chudo-muzyka, these are: "Lenin ne umer", "Parichok", "Slova i zhesty", "Nado brat dvorets", "Lenin umer". The rest are taken from: Rodina slyshit – "Chto takoe Sovetskaya vlast";Album track title "Konkretnaya muzyka #3 Chto takoe Sovetskaya vlast?". Narodovedenie – "Vysshee dostizhenie";Album track title "Vladimir Ilich". Igra v samoletiki pod krovatyu – "Poymayu malenkogo sam", "Kusok otrezal",Album track title "Bespokojnoe vremya". "Razvlecheniya Ilicha v ssylke";Full album title of the track "Razvlecheniya Ilicha v ssylke byli preimushchestvenno sportivnogo kharaktera". Kontsert – "I vnov prodolzhaetsya boy". "Revolyutsiya svershilas"Album track title "Konkretnaya muzyka #1 Revolyutsiya svershilas". is the previously unpublished third version of the track (the original is in the album Rodina slyshit).Footnote to the bonus track on GrOb-Hroniki The fragment/composition "Gimn", with which the whole Leniniana begins, is actually a reversed anthem of the Tajik SSR, moreover, a post-Stalin version (in the album version, only the third verse sounds with sound distortion of the "beginning"). Words from "Lenin vidit devochku", "Otdykh Lenina", and "Son Lenina" are found in the children's book Stories about Lenin (Malysh publishing house, 1986) by the author Sergey Alekseev (in the tale "One, Two, Three").S. Alekseev "One, Two, Three" - Chrestomathy for older preschool children | I.vlast One way or another, they have nothing to do with the film and/or the Lenin in October LP, except for the narrator Vladimir Gertsik. While developing the computer game S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl by GSC Game World, the album was one of the sources of inspiration for creating the atmosphere of the abandoned Soviet legacy in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Some fragments from the track "Leniniana" "Gimn" "I togda uzh my — Vot tak tak — A yesli" "Sluchay s tovarishchem Sapunovym — Smert bolshevika Grigoriya — Gromovoe ura — Leninskoe slovo"—as well as from other albums of Kommunizm—were present in the build version of the game, and, as planned by the developers, were supposed to sound in the in-game Bar 100 Rads. However, for a number of reasons, they were cut from the release version of the game.Cut music of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl Subsequently, the files saved in the archives of the game were restored with the help of fan modifications that returned the content cut from the game.
References
General
Track titles from other albums
External links GrOb-Hroniki | Kommunizm – Leniniana
Album review by Denis Stupnikov on KM.RU Album review by Dmitry Mekh on Reproduktor