Music by: Igor Iofe and Thomas Nakas 
Piano: Thomas Nakas @to_mi_nor
Trumpet: Igor Iofe @igoriofe-1
Art Cover by Luana Bento: www.instagram.com/offluaph
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This musical material is very dear to me and it came to me many years ago, in about 2002. I would walk to my bus stop to go to school or walk to the bazar always humming these few very simple chords. They were stuck in my head for quite some years. Strange that at that time I had never considered doing anything with this material. Maybe because I was very much occupied with abstract contemporary conceptual music back then. The older I become the more I appreciate clarity, simplicity and emotion in music rather than complexity and hidden abstract concepts. The time to unfold this material came 20 years after. Thomas Nakas aka @to_mi_nor brought it to life  by creating a beautiful piano part, structure and arrangement. This is our second EP and there are more works to come!

The improvisations are rough, meaning that I recorded them in one take with no corrections or editing and this represents the concept of this EP. Do we have to be perfect at all? Or is it maybe more important to honestly communicate your thoughts, your feelings, regrets, nostalgia?..

#tomi # Igor_Iofe

Imperfect//Monologs (Intro)

TRIANGLE

The eyes: you can see so many things through them and you can see the real essence of the person in front of you. We are made of beauty, inner beauty that we have the duty to make shine to bring a bright light in the world especially when the days are dark, when you feel down, when you feel misunderstood or you don't know who you are. Look in the mirror and dig into your soul to unleash your beautiful power.

In Yours Eyes ( Piano Version)

Sugarloaf Hill is one of the Malvern Hills here in England, between the two highest peaks of that range. I have walked it a lot and it always gives me a melancholy feeling, hence this song.

Sugarloaf Hill

A Rock instrumental song made for a game,

Hey Doctor

Dreamy, chill, and ambient. The most ambient thing I have made. Video here: https://youtu.be/s46ud5rHz4Y

Deflate

Dulcimer, penny whistle, voice,

The visualizer is here https://www.instagram.com/p/CrL8nfjIxqT/ (various other visualizers there too.)

and here at the Sound Animal FB page https://fb.watch/j-jW55Cast/

Opening

6035 classic

Merry Little Christmas

New York State of Mind

Tomorrowland

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Igor Iofe is a
composer whose musical
paths lead to diverse stylistic destinations. Currently Igor's focus in music is Armenian traditional duduk repertoire which he performs on trumpet. He brings the beauty and warmth of the duduk into his trumpet playing.

At the Conservatorium van Amsterdam he studied with  Wim Hendrickx,Richard Ayres,  Fabio Nieder,Willem Jeths and Jorrit Tamminga. Igor attended masterclasses with Misato Mochizuki, Dmitry Kourliandski, Tristan Murail andTan Dun. His music was performed at the Composers’ Festival Amsterdam (2012 and 2013), Atlas Academy (2010-12),  Looptail XXX and at such venues as De Link, De Duif, Het Bethaniënklooster, Het Veem, STEIM, Muziekgebouw aan 't Ij and CvA in Amsterdam and other cities of the Netherlands. His piece Y+Ywas performed by the Joint Venture Percussion Duo at several venues in the USA and Europe.

Parallel to his Classical Composition studies Igor studied Composing Music for Film with Jurre Haanstra and graduated as a Master in Composing for FIlm at the CvA. During his studies he wrote music for several movies which were shown at the Beeldbuis Filmfestival, Keep an Eye Film Festival, VERS Awards, Cinekid Filmfestival, M2M Filmfestival and Pleinbioscoop Rotterdam.

Igor is one of the organisers of the Toets des Tijds Concert Series