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1982 Golden Era
OK I (Forest Secrets)
The first numbered studio album by Oblachny Kray, recorded January 6–March 10, 1982 at the Cultural Center of the Red Smithy factory in Arkhangelsk. The recording featured Sergey Bogaev (vocals, guitars, bass), Oleg Rautkin (vocals, drums), and Nikolay Lyskovskiy (keyboards), using a homemade bass guitar and self-constructed sound effects. The magnetic tape album spread beyond Arkhangelsk through connections with Aquarium; officially released on cassette and CD in 2001, with a remastered edition in 2009.
Album tracks
3/11 48:17
1
Overture
2:28 2
Cloven-Hoofed Ones
5:03 3
Class Approach
1:19 5
Piece for Various Instruments
2:56 6
Young Naturalist
5:04 9
Oleg Rautkin's Introduction to the Following Song
1:37 10
Money (The Monkey)
7:40 11
Finale
2:08 Album story
In January 1982, when Sergey Bogaev was barely 21, vocalist and drummer Oleg Rautkin was 17 and keyboardist Nikolai Lyskovsky was 16, the band recorded its first album, «Oblachny Kray — 1», known among fans as «Secrets of the Forest».
With this album Oblachny Kray impressed the musicians of Aquarium, who came to Arkhangelsk on tour with their sound engineer — the future famous producer Andrey Tropillo — by its originality and unusual approach to recording.
The author of the "Vsyo putyom!" pages (Inn Fo) calls "Tainy lesa" a transition from "Made in Vaneeva" to more mature work: the vocals are no longer "howling" and the music is free of the "saucepan" sound; in his opinion the level of composition is comparable to Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd. He also notes that someone posted both first albums of 1982 on YouTube in full, as a reel-to-reel recording and later as a cassette one. This is a fan's personal opinion.
Source: essay in the community "Vsyo putyom!" (Inn Fo)
Editions
Artwork and releases
Scans and photographs of the releases: covers, backs, inlays, discs and records. Click a picture to look closer.
- Back Back of Igor Plenov's edition (2009): "OK I (Tainy lesa)", the line-up and the track list
CD, AnTrop, ATR 01039, 20016 pictures
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Scans: Discogs
Cassette, Otdelenie VYKHOD, В 159, 20015 pictures
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Scans: Discogs
Personnel
Musicians who performed on this album
