As far as the sequence of events can be restored now, initially the name Balalaika Noise was assigned to the album #10 of my noise alias Stop Asking Stupid Questions. Then I released this tape, where Balalaika Noise was still apparently a genre, not the performer: the latter was specified as R.A.Pavlov for the Side 1, where I was playing Russian sailors' song Yablochko laxly, the other side being the Part 2 of the aforementioned SASQ album (looks like it has never been fully published). Only later, when two more tapes had been out, Balalaika Noise began to be understood as project's name, under which I performed soon in St. Petersburg, Novgorod and Petrozavodsk, as well as in Czechia during Ankylym's tour. Later in 2010-s the only gig with a drummer has taken place at St. Petersburg's venue Zhopa (Asshole).

Through the whole SASQ side the three-chord theme of Russian chastushka is varied in a number of ways, yet (like on other recordings of that period, overly productive at the expense of quality) it's still full of cuts and pieces from vinyl records, tapes, radio, my cries (later becoming a permanent feature of live performances of Balalaika Noise) and even something like a vacuum cleaner (but it might be balalaika as well) crawling from everywhere, all being processed by the awful delay of the post-Soviet despised mixing console Lel. A minimalistic cover is made of a piece of orange cardboard with a label attached, printed on an old-fashioned analogue typewriter Lubava, with which I had spend the whole first half of the 1990-s.