Pod tonkoy kozhey


Pod tonkoy kozhey is the compilation album featuring early songs written by Aleksandr Nepomnyashchiy between 1992 and 1993. The album was recorded in 1995.
The album represents an early stage in Aleksandr Nepomnyashchiy's work, characterized by existential motifs, themes of divine abandonment, and the total fragility of being. Its style is described as depressive, melancholic, bleak, and honest. At the same time, critics note that this lends the album a "unique charm" and a stylistic signature "unlike any other". A friend of the artist recalls that Aleksandr Nepomnyashchiy wrote these songs in the dormitory of Ivanovo State University, under unbearable conditions, while he was a student in the philology department in the early 1990s.
The album was first released in 1995 on cassette by Studiya Kolokol. It was reissued in 2021 by Bull Terrier Records on CD, featuring commentary from his friend from Ivanovo, Konstantin Sharonin and new design.

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