Art has a feature of avoiding straightforward statements. 

More precisely, those thoughts originality of which requires an artistic language are rarely simple or straightforward. In this case, a musical statement becomes a metaphorical one. 

But what features - linguistic and stylistic - are inherent to this kind of statement? And what tasks as a result appear before the performer, the interpreter? 

Sometimes we expect a metaphor to be something complex, deliberately ambiguous, but if by the statement we gain new ways of understanding, a metaphor survives. It becomes obvious and natural like a long-time proven assertion in mathematics, which over time has become a well-known theorem... 

But then a new layer of metaphors appear. It comes naturally as a new coil of what was proven in the previous turn… Maybe there again is a choice appearing in front of the artist? What should the artist do, take part in the pursuit of the evolution of the metaphorical language, or hide, using seemingly familiar tools and forming a completely new context? 

The author, obviously, selects the second. 

Of course, this makes his music defenseless and extremely vulnerable to the performance. The slightest inaccuracy of the interpretation could trigger a completely different association and a metaphorical statement will be destroyed... 

I hope that we were able to uncover the author's intention in his modern sound where archaisms, modern expression and avant-garde ideas give birth to a new dramaturgy. 

Ilya Hoffman
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Polina Osetinskaya: piano

Composed by: Sergey Akhunov 

Recorded by: Alexei Barashkin 
Recorded at: The D. D. Shostakovich Saint Petersburg Academic Philharmonia, Large Hall, 31 May – 4 June, 2016 
Edited by: Alexei Barashkin 
Mixed, mastered by: Alexander Mikhlin 
Cover photo by: Anna Zyabreva

Sketches

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Sergey Akhunov - Sketch VII (Performed by Polina Osetinskaya)

Тамара Зарицкая - вокал;
Виолетта Ремизова - флейта;
Виктор Самохвалов - рояль;
Станислав Поспелов - гитара;
Игорь Мозгалев - бас;
Пётр Талалай - барабаны;

Станислав Поспелов - стихи;
Чик Кория - музыка;
Юлия Ованесян - дизайн, офорт;
Игорь Смирнов - звук.

Арт-группа "Дальний свет" - Рыба тебя любит

The album contains 7 tracks between academic and improvisational music. In each composition, the ratio of pre-composed music to improvisational is different, different compositional techniques and instructions for improvisation are used. My music is characterized by sudden stylistic leaps - you can hear the influence of both jazz musicians and academic composers of the 20th century.

These 7 compositions are a deliberate clash of styles in an attempt to find a balance in today's world, expressed in the balance between popular and avant-garde music, between cold academism and expressive spontaneity, between sense and sensitivity.

Ivan Grebenschikov
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Composed by: Ivan Grebenschikov 

Recorded by: Vyacheslav Motylev, Vladimir Osinsky Studio, 24.01.2020 
Mixed by: Ivan Grebenschikov 
Mastered by: Ruslan Zaipold 

Cover by: Ivan Grebenschikov, Diana Tuneva

Sense and Sensitivity

Ivan Grebenschikov - Snow Flower

FANCYMUSIC is a record label focused on contemporary new music recordings. It is a broad platform for a wide variety of contemporary new music composed by different russian musicians. FANCYMUSIC is also a platform on which newer names may be encountered.

Ivan Grebenschikov - Snow Flower

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