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Today Yesterday

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Anton Mikhailov

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2025
Duration: 00:44:35
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Tracks

Today Yesterday; Simple; Thoughts 1; Bitterly; Thoughts 2; Danseuses De Delphes; Rush; Izo; Thoughts 3.

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Album Description

It is a musical reflection on identity, movement, and the cumulative nature of influence. It brings together the earliest works of Anton’s compositional journey—written across several transformative years—to explore what happens when classical training, jazz improvisation, electronic atmospheres, and personal history collide in a single sonic narrative. The album unfolds as a portrait of growth and memory. It begins with “Today Yesterday,” composed during Anton’s relocation from Murmansk to Moscow in the early days of the pandemic. This track reflects a moment of radical change and uncertainty, blending introspection with rhythmic motion. From there, the album moves through a shifting emotional terrain: longing and distance (“Bitterly”); grounded simplicity (“Simple”); explosive energy (“Rush”); and quiet solitude (“Izo”). Three solo-piano miniatures—“Thoughts 1,” “Thoughts 2,” and “Thoughts 3”—serve as the album’s emotional hinges. Recorded on Anton’s home upright piano, these intimate, unpolished pieces capture the immediacy of thought and memory. Their lo-fi, close-mic’d character contrasts beautifully with the fuller trio textures found elsewhere on the record. A unique highlight is Anton’s arrangement of Debussy’s “Danseuses de Delphes,” reimagined at the suggestion of drummer Roman Reznik. This reinterpretation bridges his classical upbringing with his evolving voice as a modern jazz composer. The ensemble features Anton on piano and sound design, alongside bassist Ivan Lipatov and drummer Roman Reznik —two of the most expressive and responsive musicians in his orbit. Their contributions help ground the music’s emotional complexity with a sense of spontaneous energy and collective intent. Stylistically, the album sits firmly within the contemporary European jazz landscape, drawing on lyrical clarity, cinematic harmony, and restrained melodic improvisation. It is a debut not of declaration but of integration—a weaving together of all the music that shaped Anton before he consciously began shaping music himself.