After arriving in the capital, the guys started looking for a studio to record in. After trying several home studios and gaining the friendly support of Viktor Kulishenko, the owner of one of them, they met Yuriy Nikitin, the producer of Nova Studio, through Vitaliy Klimov.
The studio charged $500 for five days of recording. Not a lot of money, but the guys didn't have it. Terry quickly found an investor, but he demanded joint rights to the future record for a period of 50 years. Kuzma, Shura and Teri don't hesitate to shake hands and make another dubious deal.
So, the young Novoyavoriv residents were given a few nights to record and mix a presentable album. Impressed by Berlin and the leading musical trends, the guys decided that it should be techno. It didn't matter that the Novosky equipment didn't provide the necessary opportunities to make it complex and modern.
When the Skryabin band entered Nova's studio, they had no idea what they were going to write for the next week. Nothing came to mind, and the guys began to recall some of their old stuff.
The song ‘Birds’ was written in 20 minutes. Kuzma almost got into a fight with Shura over it - Andrii offered his part, Shura stood by his version.
Each defended their point of view. In the end, they both left.
It took the musicians two days to record the vocals and three days to mix the record. Four songs had already been recorded before, ‘Birds’ was created very quickly, and ‘Exhausted’ was also created very quickly. But the ballad ‘Wise, because Dumb’ took a while to complete. At first, Domishevsky was not given the text for the second verse.
Then it turned out that Kuzma found it difficult to sing his vocal parts - the two-year break in his work was affecting him. Towards the end of the recording, he could only sing in a half-whisper.
However, despite the obstacles, the album was recorded in just seven nights.
It was this album that brought Skryabin fame. With the release of ‘Birds’, a new period began for the band. In the spring of 1995, the band's fourth disc began to be sold on audio cassettes - 4 thousand copies were released. And in Lviv alone, half of them were sold in a few days.
In the autumn of 1995, the Karavan CD company released The Birds on a CD. It was the first time in Ukraine that a digipac cardboard cover was used.
When the first copy was handed to Kuzma on 27 November on the Soundpark TV programme, he cursed and said that he could die now.
- Svitlana Berestovska - suspilne.media
