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Si estás buscando una app con la que poder escuchar música online, totalmente gratis, seguro que FancyMusic te gustará. En estos días es la aplicación gratuita, en la categoría “Utilidades”, más descargada en EE.UU. y es que no es para menos.

La hemos probado y,…

photo : Anton Batagov, pianist / composer.

Last spring I began exchanging messages with a contemporary music label called Fancy Music in Russia, after being directed to the project by a Montréal-based musician / composer named Daniel Áñez. After exchanging some notes with Sergey Krasin, the founder of the label in Russia, we arranged to swap some music releases by post, in exchange I sent over родина, a piano / oud duet album that I worked on with musician / composer Sam Shalabi.

Around a month later I got a package in the mail from Moscow with three albums from Fancy Music, all with beautiful, minimalist design. In an effort to spread the word about this thoughtful contemporary label in Russia and also explore more deeply the releases myself, below are some reflections on the three albums.

Structure # 54, is a quartet recording led by Alexey Kruglov, playing alto/soprano saxophone, in addition to basset horn and recorder. Joining Alexey on the project is Roman Stolyar, on both recorders and keyboards, Vladimir Dranitsa on double bass and Sergey Belichenko on drums / percussion. This record certainly falls within the contemporary jazz universe, including elements of free improvisation, sonic exchanges that expand into a musical zone that feels contemplative and spacious.

Recorded in Novosibirsk, Russia's third city, located in southwestern Siberia, most certainly you can hear winter both in and between the notes on the record, the silences speak of cold winds.

Kruglov explains the project well in the album’s liner notes, saying “the world with its immense space, bringing up the image of infinity in each Siberian soul,” continuing to say that, “improvisational school of Siberia and Novosibirsk in particular, is absolutely different to that of any other part of Russia — musicians are in constant research, they stay away from cliches and therefore keep their natural frankness. Due to an uncomplicated call to the heart of the creative process, Siberian musicians, always opened to something new, establish a new language, their own style, own sounding.”

Listen to the opening track on Structure # 54 at: