New Album
This album has a long story. I started working on it back in 2020, but then COVID happened and the trip to record the album in Turkey was cancelled. Then the war began and I kind of “froze” creatively. The first thaw happened at the end of 2022, when I gathered the guys and we played a concert at Esse. At that concert I asked the sound engineer to record it. For the next few years that recording just sat in a drawer. By 2025 a lot had changed in my life, and one day I simply put on my headphones, went up to the attic of my house and sat down to mix that recording. All these years I was tormented by doubts — why, for whom… But a friend of mine once answered my question “who needs it anyway” with “you!”. Something clicked inside me and I firmly decided to release these pieces.
The music is almost entirely mine, except for the theme “Square Heptagon” — it was born back in our student years together with Oleg Solomko. In general, the guys I was lucky enough to play with here each made their own unique contribution to the sound, since the music is improvisational.
The album was recorded live at the Esse jazz club in Rostov-on-Don in 2022.
Saxophone — Yuri Krasilnikov
Bass guitar — Oleg Solomko
Drums — Alexander Bozhenko
Sound engineer — Andrey Pilipenko
Cover concept — Evgeny Khizhnyakov
Cover design — Susanna Tukhikyan
The cover features artwork by Oleg Ustinov
Producer — Vlad Korolkov
Mixing and mastering — Vlad Korolkov
Label — Yug Zvuchit