It's been a while since I've started making music. Writing, recording, moving further, writing and recording again, I was not sure whether to sum it all up in one album or not. So I continued to write music and songs, mostly in Russian. But there always were the tunes, musical ideas that I knew would never make it to the Russian set-list or album - their "form" demanded an English "substance". The pulse, the rhythm and melody lines - it could only work with the lyrics in English. The obvious decision was to record an album to capture this music and the moment. What does our century sound like? A few decades earlier it sounded introvert and frustrated as Shostakovitch wrote his last Quartet and Symphonie. A malady, that grew out of “fin de siecle” and since then got worse, was carried all the way to our days. An agony of the existentialism, a search for the new forms, a longing for the new spirituality – Western culture made a full cycle. We are post-everything: post-modernism, post-structuralism, post-neo-modernism. Even post-rock (which is an exceptional success). “Cotton” is a modest attempt to shake off this existential malady. And cotton itself is a thing that pop-culture is made of: it spreads in the world with the labels. Music and lyrics by Alexey Zelensky 'a Never Meeting': lyrics from Solomon's Song of Songs, vocal - Anastasia Chukovskaya. Cover art - Philipp Yarin Recorded in Moscow