Pod tonkoy kozhey

Pod tonkoy kozhey
Studio album by
Released1995, 2021
Recordedbetween 1992 and 1993
Genre
Length42:32
LabelStudiya Kolokol
Bull Terrier Records
Aleksandr Nepomnyashchiy chronology
Novyye pokhozhdeniya A. I. Svidrigaylova (1968–1994)
(1994)
Pod tonkoy kozhey
(1995)
Ekstremizm
(1995)

Pod tonkoy kozhey (Russian: Под тонкой кожей, English: Under thin skin) is the compilation album featuring early songs written by Aleksandr Nepomnyashchiy between 1992 and 1993.[1] The album was recorded in 1995.

The album represents an early stage in Aleksandr Nepomnyashchiy's work, characterized by existential motifs, themes of divine abandonment,[2] and the total fragility of being.[3] Its style is described as depressive, melancholic[3], bleak, and honest.[4] At the same time, critics note that this lends the album a "unique charm" and a stylistic signature "unlike any other".[3] A friend of the artist recalls that Aleksandr Nepomnyashchiy wrote these songs in the dormitory of Ivanovo State University, under unbearable conditions, while he was a student in the philology department in the early 1990s.[3]

The album was first released in 1995 on cassette by Studiya Kolokol.[1] It was reissued in 2021 by Bull Terrier Records on CD, featuring commentary from his friend from Ivanovo, Konstantin Sharonin and new design.[5]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Osvobozhdeniye ("Liberation")" 
2."Osen' ("Autumn")" 
3."Pobeg ("Escape")" 
4."Ded Moroz" 
5."Konveyyer ("Conveyor")" 
6."Doroga domoy ("Way home")" 
7."Eleazar" 
8."Umirayet Vechnost' ("Eternity dies")" 
9."Nofuturisticheskiy blyuz ("Nofuturistic blues")" 
10."Вдогонку за дождем ("Chasing after the rain")" 
11."Pesenka dlya Shvartsa ("Song for Schwartz")" 
12."Macondo" 

Personnel

  • Aleksandr Nepomnyashchiy – vocals, guitars
  • Aleksey Vertogradov – sound engineer
  • Nadezhda Stakhurskaya – first edition artist
  • Alexander Shcherbak, Vadim Dzhalaev – design
  • Konstantin Sharonin – friend of author and author of the comments to the 2021 edition

References

  1. ^ a b "Pod tonkoy kozhey. Official website of Aleksandr Nepomnyashchiy". www.nepomn.ru. Archived from the original on 2025-04-19. Retrieved 2026-01-24.
  2. ^ Сергеевич, Афанасьев Антон (2017). "«От чудовищной свободы до спасительной любви»: эволюция христианского текста в творчестве А. Е. Непомнящего". Филология и культура (2 (48)): 126–132. ISSN 2074-0239. Archived from the original on 2025-09-14. Retrieved 2026-01-24.
  3. ^ a b c d "Александр Непомнящий «Под тонкой кожей»". KM.RU (in Russian). 2022. Archived from the original on 2024-06-15. Retrieved 2026-01-24.
  4. ^ "АЛЕКСАНДР НЕПОМНЯЩИЙ: "Под тонкой кожей"". EX-PRESSA (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2018-12-21. Retrieved 2026-01-24.
  5. ^ "Выргород. Непомнящий Александр "Под тонкой кожей"". wyrgorod.ru. Archived from the original on 2025-07-12. Retrieved 2026-01-24.