Who is this guy with the Clarkkent glasses? What kind of cheeky trio is with him? The guitarist shows that smile that hangs in the air for a long time after his departure, the implacable brutality and something else from yesterday are stuck in the uncompromising beard of the double bassist, the keyboardist evaluates the world through the eyes of an affectionate gopnik… Is this a sect of “shakers”? No. This is vyatichi. With a modest but succinct name, The Shakers. Rommitz And The Ol’ Time Shakers.
For the first time, Yekaterinburg was visited at the very beginning of the two thousandth, dressed in couture suits, who would have been better off working as an apprentice in South Park, where his amateurism and lack of taste would have suited the court. The very first performance was a joint one with the aborigines of The Stockmen, after which the two teams became friends literally as families (in the traditional sense, we all go under the Confederate flag).
The Shakers & The Stockmen
Therefore, being a participant in this close vicious circle, I will judge them most strictly and carefully, so as not to be suspected of nepotism. And I will judge their most relevant release, which is a collection of songs from the previous album, flavored with several of the latest numbers, called “Romantic Fools” (2020) by the authors. Hanukkah, girls, let’s shake it up!
Hot Women, Cold Beer is a typical Shaker action movie in the style of Memphis blues. At such moments, Dimitz climbs with his feet on his poor double bass, and Eugene gives a half-piano solo in the style of a freaking taper from the Soviet film adaptation of Mark Twain. Romych, shaking his saucepans, sings with the intonation of a Dartweider who has taken off his helmet for the first time in a hundred years. A solid good drive (“this is naughty and debauchery, dear, let’s get out of here!”), but when will the keys sound natural and not Disney-like?!
President Boogie‘s very sound exposes capitalism and the Western model of democracy. Starting with a Yankee doodle, as Kirov residents imagine it, the composition jumps into a hillbilly boogie, convulsive, as if in the midst of the Caribbean crisis. Lech is frying on a guitar, bringing Kuzka’s mother closer, promised by Nikita Sergeevich. The brain obligingly slips in pictures of the animation “Kyivnauchfilm”, the perfect video sequence.
Crazy Julie‘s drive is off the charts at times. Dancers love to stroll because they don’t have time to move to anything else. We need to give them this schizophrenia at a medium pace. The shakers are also yelling in three throats! Real True Love is a name that disputes Carl Perkins’ “True Love.” The music is perfect for any cowboy in any movie starring Gojko Mitic. Beautiful vocal harmonies.
Rock Me All Night Long. It’s clear what the song is about. But the arrangement is… “American Style Robbery” by Soyuzmultfilm. We all come from there… Drop The Cigarette is a great pub. Broken. The man from Kaputsinov Boulevard has nothing to do here, here they are clarifying the relationship with the determination of Nikolai “Billy” Karachentsev.
So Alone Tonight is romantic in the key of Dion and Del Shannon. It’s all the more unfortunate that the keys weren’t used like Shannon’s in “Runaway” or something like that. But Romych’s guitar ripples and falsetto are pleasing. Five minutes to hit. If I Were Elvis – another package from Tennessee, destination: Graceland. But we love Romych because he’s Romych, not Elvis.
If Billy Haley had gone crazy, gone off the rails, and completely blown the whistle, we’d have had something like Gonna Shake It. You can scoop up energy and enthusiasm with a ladle. Romantic Fools is a cowboy polka for romantics who think of themselves as cowboys. The country of well-fed burghers.
Computer (Is My Enemy) is Dimych’s tragic tango with his soulmate, whose name is Laptop. Dimych himself recites the tragic vocal part through his tragic beard. A computer and a beard are the two main causes of mental pain for a modern man.
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Beautiful and dearly loved by me (and now, I hope, by you, Moon Dogs!) It’s time for The Shakers to stop playing cartoons. Otherwise, it is a solid, powerful, deeply professional team, even now at the fair. The wet branches are shaking with chills, it’s time to sleep.
Guys, thanks for the review! I wanted to review films with Gojko Mitic and the Soyuzmultfilm Foundation. And I also want five minutes to pass, and our “So Alone Tonight” has already become a hit)