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For connoisseurs of experimental, avante-garde and progressive music, this release is certainly worthy of investigation.
On April 14 in 2016, Nick Storring and Ratio presented an event titled ‘Nick Fraser plays Justin Haynes plays Rob Clutton plays Nick Fraser’. Subsequently, Fraser released a solo album of compositions by Justin Haynes, and Haynes released a solo album of ‘radical translations’ of Clutton's music (all available on Bandcamp). This album begins to complete the circle.
released March 19, 2021
Personnel: Rob Clutton plays electric bass with Zoom B1X pedal (tracks 1-5); double bass (track 6)
All compositions by Nick Fraser (SOCAN)
Tracks 1-5 recorded and mixed by Rob Clutton in North York and Burlington, April-August, 2020. Track 6 recorded by Joe Strutt at Track Could Bend on March 6, 2019.
Andrei Poliakov is a professional musician, composer and producer, who received a fundamental classical music education as a pianist and an oboist in Russia, continued with the professional musical career performing with world renowned orchestras, later diversifying his musical taste and capacity into jazz, rock, and pop genres, performing and recording with various bands and solo.
The foundation of Andrei’s works is a well educated classical, romantic soundscape, but as soon as the music begins, it starts looking for cross over opportunities to develop into an exciting house party, jazz, pop, or electronic music, all these easily transforming to warm classical follow ups hence the eclectic style which helps Andrei tell better stories without words.
Andrei treats a musical genre as an additional color for the compositions, like seasoning in food; these colors help him get across the emotions and tell the stories to the listener with better precision and stronger impact: “I do not feel bound by a genre or a style, and instead I use and abuse the variety of styles to paint a deeper and more colorful, meaningful musical picture. Nevertheless, the Piano is always staying as a centerpiece of my compositions as I believe the richness and diversity of sounds of the “king of music” easily trumps any other instrument I know”.
The “Moonlight & Sunshine” album has an uncommon approach for the neo-classics genre: every next release features 2 different versions of one motive, coming to life as a piano solo piece, interpreting a narrative in the moonlight, and as a fully arranged piece, revealing the same story under the sunshine.
