HAGGARD

"But all the same it's rotating!.." the sympho-death musicians HAGGARD claim after Galileo. Well, "Eppur Si Muova" won't get them into history, but nevertheless it is very good. Simple childish music works good because of the sophisticated arrangement (by the way all instruments, up to the last penny whistle, are live). Feverish change in rhythm and attitude may even scare you sometime: now the violin is trying to play fagot, somewhere a piano's murmuring and suddenly "DZhHHH!!... BRRR… DZHHHH!!!..". Percussions speed the music up to the "deicide" madness, growling tears everything apart, shadows of upturned crucifixes crawl on the walls, something warm, sticky and red is dripping from above… And then again - a sunny orchard, birds are singing, a little girl is sinning a lullaby to a teddy bear. For some reason the booklet is associated with fancy box paper - all kinds of silver and golden stars, - and the sad eyes of Galileo on the cover. But the funniest thing is inside. A group photo of HAGGARD makes you ponder over an arithmetic exercise: "Pioneers walked on the street in six rows, three in each. And a bugler in the front. How many pioneers were there altogether?". Two dozen people from the permanent staff plus invitees. Almost an army… But one thing is still a secret - 10 years have passed and this "army" hadn't taken their Berlin…