Stories From Masala, by Masala Quartet

Stories From Masala

by Masala Quartet

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Carsten Pieper Contemporary jazz from Russia reaching into different directions. Very interesting album! I especially enjoyed the varying colourful arrangements. Well, the compositions and the playing are also great..
A pity that you can't chose a favorite track here, but perhaps that's for the better because I would have had a hard time chosing between Polyphonic Paint and Faboulous Funk ;-)

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1.	Nine 07:10	buy track
2.	Anthropocentrism 08:11	buy track
3.	When We Are 90 11:13	buy track
4.	Undersea 10:16	buy track
5.	Sirens' Song (Obsessions) 05:52	buy track
6.	Polyphonic Paint 08:12	buy track
7.	Frozen Breath 04:35	buy track
8.	Prelude No. 1 D-dur 05:39	buy track
9.	Fabulous Funk 07:44	buy track
10.	String of Pearls 08:21	buy track

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These are stories about many and one thing. About emotions and events: happened, happen, never existed. About mermaids and the underwater world, about feelings and destinies, voices sing (and sometimes remain silent) about love for people and an endless search, which once called us on this musical journey. No matter where the plot finds us, the center of the system is always the human being: the perceiver, the sender, the thinker.

The album includes compositions from different years, some of them have changed almost beyond recognition along the way, and we are pleased to present the results of this evolution. The recording itself eventually took only three and a half busy days. Perhaps that is why the sound is so "honest" and lively.

We thank our wonderful musician friends Ivan Akatov, Alena Shcherbina, Vadim Kharchenko, Dmitry Ignatov, Ivan Muralov, Kirill Parenchuk, Over Serrano and responsive sound engineer Valentin Osinsky, who embarked on this journey with us.

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released November 13, 2020

Alexey Soukhov: tenor saxophone [1-7, 9, 10], voice [3]
Anna Beme: piano [2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 10], fender rhodes [1, 5, 6, 9], hammond organ [1, 9], backing vocals [5, 7]
Dmitry Taranov: double bass [1-10], backing vocals [7]
Petr Ivshin: drums [1-7, 9-10], percussion [1-7, 9-10], calabash [10]

Alena Shcherbina: vocals [1, 5, 7]
Ivan Akatov: trumpet [3, 9]
Vadim Kharchenko: guitar [6, 9]
Dmitry Ignatov: blul, neokamyl [10]
Ivan Muralov: sitar [4]
Kirill Parenchuk: tabla [4, 6]
Over Serrano: percussion [2, 3]

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Composed by:

Dmitry Taranov [1, 7, 8]
Alexey Soukhov [2, 5, 6, 9]
Anna Beme [3, 4, 10]

Arranged by: Masala Quartet
Lyrics by: Alex Carlin [7]

Recorded by: Valentin Osinsky, Vladimir Osinsky Studio, Moscow, September 2020
Mixed by: Valentin Osinsky
Mastered by: Ruslan Zaipold

Cover by: Anna Shmitko
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Masala Quartet thanks the New/Open Showcase Festival 2020 organizers and experts for making this recording possible.

Many thanks to our friends Anna Gelyuk and Ivan Avraimov for the pleasure we have experienced playing and making music together. And to Anna Khorunzhaya for the inspiration and great support.

Thanks to Andrey Laskin for his invaluable advice.

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