Victor Tsoy — Red-Yellow Days

It’s the last song that Kino finished recording in studio before Victor Tsoy’s death in a car accident. It is on the last Kino’s album titled “The Black Album” (1990).

Red-Yellow Days
Victor Tsoy

My train stayed in the depot for too long.
I leave again. It’s time…
On the doorstep wind waited so much for me.
On the doorstep autumn is my sister.

After the red-yellow days
The winter will begin and will end.
O my woe from my wit,
Don’t be sorrowful, look up with a smile,
And I’ll return home
With a shield or maybe on a shield,
In silver or maybe in poverty,
But as soon as possible.

Tell me about those who are tired
Of merciless street dramas
And about the church built of broken hearts
And about those who walk into this church.

After the red-yellow days
The winter will begin and will end.
O my woe from my wit,
Don’t be sorrowful, look up with a smile,
And I’ll return home
With a shield or maybe on a shield,
In silver or maybe in poverty,
But as soon as possible.

And I dreamt: the world is ruled by love,
And I dreamt: the world is ruled by dream.
And above it all splendidly shines a star,
And I woke up and got it: oh my…

After the red-yellow days
The winter will begin and will end.
O my woe from my wit,
Don’t be sorrowful, look up with a smile,
And I’ll return home
With a shield or maybe on a shield,
In silver or maybe in poverty,
But as soon as possible.

Victor Tsoy — Peaceful Night

This is amazing song by a Russian visionary musician Victor Tsoy called “Peaceful night.”

Victor Tsoy (leader of the rock band Kino)
Peaceful Night

The roofs of houses tremble under the heaviness of days,
A skyline shepherd shepherds the clouds,
The city shoots in the night with the pellets of flames,
But night is stronger, her power is huge.

Those who go to sleep—
Have a peaceful sleep.
Have a peaceful night.

I have waited for this time; and this time has come,
Those who were silent stopped being quiet.
Those who have nothing to wait for get on the saddle,
It’s impossible to catch up with them anymore, already not possible.

Those who go to sleep—
Have a peaceful sleep.
Have a peaceful night.

Neighbors come in, they hear the patter of hoofs,
It doesn’t let them to get asleep, it disturbs their sleep.
Those who have nothing to wait for embark on a journey
Those who are saved, those who are saved.

Those who go to sleep—
Have a peaceful sleep.
Have a peaceful night.

The Bremen Town Musicians

In 1969, a Russian musical cartoon The Bremen Town Musicians started its voyage into the hearts of citizens of the Soviet Union. It resonated with the social revolution and the civil rights movement of The Sixties in the West, and due to this fact received harsh criticism from the USSR establishment and government for "noxious Western influence."

Within the two consequent years more than 28 millions Soviet people watched the cartoon and listened to the music. Two decades later, in the ruins of the collapsing empire, the songs from this cartoon fostered my early growth and development. For all my life I have remembered the subtle joy of freedom from these songs. 

Lives of several generations were guided and transformed by the sun beams of hope brought forth by this music. Such is a power of music. Let's remember and listen in silence and reverence.

Brian Eno, "How Many Worlds"

Thinking of a world and the light of the sun

And all the many lives that were ever begun,

Ever begun.

Our little world turning in the blue

As each day goes there's another one new,

Another one new.

How many people will we feed today,

How many lips will we kiss today,

If we wake up?

How many worlds will we ever see,

And how many people can we ever be,

If we wake up?

Thinking of a world in the light of the sun

And all the many lives that were ever begun,

Ever begun.