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Vadim Bessarab Trio: Differences

by Dan McClenaghan
December 28, 2020

When the COVID-19 virus hit Ukraine in early 2020, the nascent Vadim Bessarab was forced to abandon its concert plans. But the no-concerts mode gave the group the opportunity to engage in rehearsal with “double power and passion." This resulted in the trio's first recording, documented with the help of what Bessarab describes as an “aspiring recording and mixing engineer." That aspirer, Cyril Oleynikov, doesn't have his own studio, so he records on location. In this case the location was ...