1. Trajectory 1
2. Trajectory 2
3. Trajectory 3
4. My Heart Was Crushed
5. Splinters
6. Birds
7. There's Day, Here's Night
8. The Two
9. The Yesterday Night
10. Sirius
11. Hills Are Breaking Into the Ground
12. Trajectory Z
13. The Day Has Come
14. The Curtain


Alexei Rybakov - vocal
Vassily Soloviev - flute; guitar (4)
Alexander Akimov - keyboard, percussion, sound engineering
Andrii Didorenko - guitar, bass guitar, electric violin


Music and lyrics by Soloviev and Didorenko,
except (10) Didorenko and Akimov


"Trajectories 1 - 3".
      Materialized in the summer of 2001 when the composer Soloviev - Didorenko had conceived something like a violin-and-flute concerto. All three movements were written one after another within few days; they represent the pure water crystal of the co-authorship. For example, the chords for the flute theme in the third movement were composed by Didorenko but the melody was written by Soloviev. Perhaps we shouldn't dig too deep into the details. We cannot help but mention, however, that Soloviev came up with two thirds of all the first movement's F sharps, whereas most of the B flats belong to Didorenko's talented pen. Another amazing fact is that there exists the arrangement of this piece for a symphony orchestra; the score is kept in a safe place. The Vienna Philarmonic has not yet risked to undertake the performance; so all our hopes lie with the New York Phil.

"My Heart Was Crushed"
      Composed together with the Trajectories. Didorenko wrote the lyrics, and Soloviev wrote the guitar riff to be performed by himself. From the sound of it, one may get the impression that Akimov played the double bass. As a matter of fact, it was the violin put down an octave and played by Didorenko. A certain quasi-oriental flavor is explained by our quasi-love for it.

"Splinters"
      A short but advantageous composition, since you get four Soloviev the flutists for the price of one, skilfully playing on four tracks, plus Didorenko the timpanist. Akimov made the noise.

"Birds"
      A remarkable composition for those who like avantgarde, minimalism, improvisation, and all other kinds of modern obscurities. Unattractive guitar chords personify, as the rumour goes, the permafrost; flutes and the acoustic guitar scurry about to stay warm. A moody piece.

"There's Day, Here's Night"
      A song. We, personally, like it. In general, we, personally, like all of it. A group of russian tourists who went to North Korea for vacation and missed their train could relate to this song particularly well. They sang it until they ran out of water and cigarets. Whatever happened to them afterwards remains unknown. Just kidding. It really is just a nice lyrical song with simple but expressive text. Was nicely sung by Alexei Rybakov and one more Alexei Rybakov as a back vocal.

" The Two"
      Another flute/guitar composition by the same co-authors. Starts out of nothing with a soft flute solo and crescendos head-on to harsh atonal rock.

"The Yesterday Night"
      "I just love to turn it on nice and loud in the car and drive cutting off the others," Soloviev admitted once. The song's basis was recorded in the summer of 2000 while in Soloviev's village, in the field conditions. "We boarded the Oka and arrived at Vassily's hut, full of enthuziasm. To honor our arrival, the thunderstorm began, and a tree fell down on the electric line. As a result, we were left without electricity for more than 24 hours, so we had to go mushroom-picking, play soccer, swim in the peat lake, that is, to waste away the time."

"Sirius"
      A Didorenko-Akimovian composition. It is a subject of Didorenko's pride since he played all the guitar parts while Akimov was putting in the percussion and aligning the structure.

"Hills Are Breaking Into the Ground "
      A song with nice harmonies and interesting text. By the way, the English translation of this text is interesting in its own right. During the recording, Alexei Rybakov attempted to alter the words to "Bills are breaking into account" but received a note of protest from the authors. The music of this note had not survived.

"Trajectory Z"
      The most freshly recorded of the album's pieces. In the coda, the theme of the "Hills..." song is quoted. The album's musical and ideological high point. Was written in the summer of 2002. Didorenko and Soloviev had instantly created the first few chords and came to a dead end of the creative process. After about a week of dead still, the inspiration came back and followed the composers up until Akimov gave the piece its final mastering and introduction.

"The Day Has Come"
      An art-rock song in the best tradition of art-rock songs. The words "We will open our eyes" were written by Daniel Harms in his poem "The Song." On the whole, Harms' heritage plays an important role in Lost World. Also noticeable in this song is the flute solo with distortion.

"The Curtain"
      The album had to have its curtain. It was found by Soloviev and Didorenko one beautiful summer evening of 2002. In the piece's middle section one can hear a fragment of "There's Day." To do so, one must first locate the middle section.