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Lifetime Achievement Award

by Yotsuya Kaidan

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We want to you to receive a trophy on TV In recognition of your excellence And now the time has come for all the audience who don't know who you are, to wish they did And we regret to say, it is indeed a shame That while you were around, no one noticed

about

Usually on weekends we gather at our rehearsal base at six o'clock and stay there till late evening, coming up with new songs and rehearsing old stuff. On one of these cozy and rainy evenings, Artem has retuned his guitar and started playing a melancholic piece which none of us didn't recognize at first. It turned out that it was the motive from the song "Lifetime Achievement Award" by the widely known in narrow circles band Unwound. In that moment we have realized that we should cover this song.
We started trying to play it quickly, slowly, standing on our heads — our main goal was to play it our own way. Without attaching to the structure of a classic song, writing it entirely in our vision. Reinventing, but at the same time sending regards to the veterans of post-hardcore.
We were so carried away by the process we didn't notice the clock's arrow crossing the timeline beyond which the public transport could no longer take us home. Therefore, we have decided to stay in the studio, and to go from the rehearsal room to the recording one (it turned out that the studio is located in the same building and our second guitarist Alex works there as a sound engineer). After several hours of setting and searching for pizza night delivery we have started our work.
It was an unforgettable and pleasant night, full of creative confusion, humor and exchanging of ideas, most of which have been accepted for the final version of our adaptation.
We strengthened the successful recording with a couple of hot cocktails in the local bar on the rose Havana and the famous Odessa's Deribasovskaya st.
Two weeks of post-production and disputes are behind us, and we are happy to present you the fruits of our labor.
Probably the whole point is that our entire Yotsuya Kaidan team just can't wait to start recording our debut album, which is almost completely written, so we have just knocked this musical urge off a little bit and at the same time have warmed you up with this sincere cover of good oldies who gave us so much pleasant sadness on these autumn evenings.
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On this recording Yotsuya Kaidan is:
Valik - voice, design
Artеm - idea, guitar
Yurii - drums
Fedya - bass
Alex - guitar, recording, mixing, mastering

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released October 24, 2017

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