Zemfira - "Zemfira.Live"

First live album Zemfira. What would think? Fans of the singer, look at the brownish-green album cover Greatest Hits album, or concert in N? Or a radical shift End of career, as it turns out suddenly that most Zemfira is closer not what? On a "corrupt" radio However, the singer is the same distance from the world of show business and the world of rock fraternity, chose something else. The tracklist shows they like to convey to the public half of the concert of songs from their latest album "Vendetta", previously unreleased "Love as accidental death" from the soundtrack of "Goddess". And also - "Arivederchi" ("Zemfira"), "PMML" (self-titled album), "Home", "Dreams" and "Infinity" ("14 Weeks of Silence"). And only come across the first strangeness of the new album Zemfira. Even with very careful listening to the songs from the difference between the design and landscape concert recording virtually no. Hardly changed since. Easily attracted sound. And - no more. Each new reflection or, God forbid, a new vision reprinted smell not even songs. The strangeness of the second. Anyone who could take the privilege of the concert tour of "Vendetta" had significantly many changes in the tone of the canonical Zemfira song to hear instrumental improvisation musicians. The new disc is sterile clean. No improvisation, no podhriplostey or overtone. What happened to the concert footage on the way to the shop, they were so strikingly similar to their album versions? Guessing is endless. I would first of all like this factual information to bring to the reader. And only make assumptions. Zemfira sick perfectionism. You want the ideal in the same way that a doctor - the cleanliness of the community. Singer writes frankly brilliant song and want every sound they hear honed sharp. Well, the disc is a concert? Suited the audience at the concerts they are only used as a between songs - clap, sing, what the volume to zero. In the center of the universe - just you, your brand-edgy songs. Companion to your noise so loud! The audience clapping - shut up! I - I start singing. Zemfira not singing by the slightest negligence. It speaks all consonants, it glides smoothly on the highest notes, it is the image. ! "Freeze, Angels Look: I play" - called Andrei Mironov. Deceptively simple, light and tangy, but the amount of work and night pain in every word. But here's the problem - the desire to reach the ideal completely in line with the ideology of the concert drive. We are awarded not only for musicians are not always pure grace and guitar fills in live concerts, and often like to give concerts for the opportunity to do to hear the breath of life instrument. We provide the live album by Radiohead listen to breathe Radiohead when the digital noise suddenly replaced in the early butterflies, "Like Spinning Plates" piano used by Thom Yorke and poignant guitar Johnny Greenwood stutters with noise on frets tells us more than the smooth studio sound. Zemfira deprives us of this possibility. All it was, was at the concerts. Zemfira do not mean a deceptive lightness of being. In search of perfection, they draped the rough drive oil compressors and limiters, so that the listener a perfect sensual vocals and cool smooth accompaniment. Probably quite cold there - at the top. It is no coincidence absence from the last "Infinity" traditional list of musicians in concert. And is not that all of them except Korney play already in the "B-2". The point of naturalness. If you want the music to accompany your vocals to a self-contained closed songs - then who and what are these companions? Dust of Time. Yesterday alone (as in the early albums), are different today. Tomorrow ... Whatever. The plus - perfectionism. In the red - breath-scene. What is more important for a live album, listeners judged the wallet. "Zemfira.Live" encouraged many fans the first singer in the country. Not fans of the live concert sound recommended. Guru KEN, NEWSmusic.ru Rating: 7/10. Real Records, 2006