A Troubled Rhymemaker (demo)

Recorded at Nikitskaya Records with a little help from our friends @ponyband

Сингл с третьего альбома Uphill Work

Best Wishes

Never Gonna Lose

H.i.t.S.

Keep the Yellow Intact

Fiasco in 7/8

Startling Sensation (Was Creeping Into My Mind)

Ride Like Love

Lunch

This is a cover version of Pony's "Post-Punk Prayer": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NjzNS3Y2Ig 

This improv recording took place at Kostyan & Kirill 07.04.2013 - the whole process took two hours or less. Konstantin Benyumov played guitars and percussion, Lev Gankine played keys, mouth organ and sang. Pony's very own Victor Davydov was at the mixing desk. 

Happy Birthday to our friend, Pony's frontman Alexey Ponomarev! 

LYRICS: 

One is my brother in Christ 
The other is Allah's blessed 
One accidentally died in jail 
The other lives up the crest 
One came down from the hills 
Spiralled up in the state police 
The other just wants to grab what was never his 

One is a noted cheat 
Casting lies from a TV screen 
The other will gladly steal our votes
For booze or a bit of green 
One is a Facebook addict 
Logging in from his bleak bureau 
The other wants to be contra but 
Still ends up voting pro 

One is judging the others
With his fingers well in the pie 
The other is known for talking 
Bullshit as a reply 
One is leaving his wife 
For a former Olympic topnotch 
The other moves to the dark side
With his luxury watch 

Who am I to invent
The cure from the disease 
I hardly can make this country 
Rise from its trembling knees
Rather than find a solution
I can only acknowledge the fault 
I'm a clown in the sanctuary 
Should be taken with a grain of salt 

There's one thing I crave 
On this perilous day 
Dear Mother of God, drive Putin away 
Dear Mother of God, drive Putin away 
Dear Mother of God, drive Putin away 

Post-Punk Prayer (PONY cover)

Uphill Work started as an experimental duo in Moscow in winter of 2002. Konstantin Benyumov and Lev Gankine were at first the only members -- and that was to remain for a couple of years. The group started rehearsing and had their first album recorded by July, 2002. Sadly, those tapes recieved little acclaim and are now largely inaccessible.

The music and the line-up have changed since those times considerably. In spring of 2005 the duo invited Evgeny Semiletov to play on bass, thus ending the band's seemingly infinite search for a rhythm section. A year later Uphill Work settled with Konstantin Provorov as the drummer.

Turning from a studio project into a rather conventional, although not exactly trivial, band, Uphill Work has steadily drifted away from composing purely instrumental music. The group's new material is less extravagant, but Uphill Work remains true to its spirit in the sense that the music should be a little challenging -- for the musicians, as well as the audience. "Counterclockwise" came out in late 2008 / early 2009, "Dribs / Drabs" hopefully follows in December, 2010. 