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I'm trying to walk a Japanese dance

from Go to it​!​.​. by Vezhlivy Otkaz

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This composition may have the most complex structure of all; it has the most pauses (pauses, incidentally, abound on the album—”half the album of them,” contends Suslov) and unexpected twists: the music hurries, then stops, then walks at leisure, then stops again—and in the final, after all the hustle and bustle, the protagonist suddenly soars up, and enters the pentatonic: he has learned his dancing, we should think.

Meanwhile, even in the seemingly shapeless fragments, as it turns out, everything is in four quarters time, and all the strokes, bars and outwardly random “slaps” are very deliberate. The “Japanese dance,” apart from the signing, some of its in make-believe Japanese, contains a distinct, albeit out of place, utterance “Passport?” (which is the reason why you can find the “lyrics” for “I‘m trying to walk a Japanese dance” on the Internet). In Suslov’s words, this came from their trips around Europe and having to pass through customs time after time.

The rough-around-the-edges piano riff is by Trefan, although the music came out so uncharacteristic, even alien to him—jeering, satiric: Suslov, in the pianist’s confession, sneaked his “half-Prokofievian, half-ironic” sense of style into his brain.

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from Go to it​!​.​., released October 10, 1992

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Vezhlivy Otkaz Moscow, Russia

Vezhlivy Otkaz was formed in 1985 with a then-popular reggae/ska blend. Since then, they have gone through numerous stylistic changes,
flirting with everything from free jazz to Russian folk. Their sound, however, has always been unique and immediately recognizable.
Suslov’s rhythmic guitar work and unusual high-pitched vocals gives VO’s music a precisely constructed,
crystal-clear sound. ... more

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