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Francois Carrier - Michel Lambert - Alexey Lapin: In Motion

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 4, 2012

Questo CD dal vivo è frutto di un tour russo degli affiatati canadesi Francois Carrier e Michel Lambert, nel corso del quale i due ebbero modo di incontrare il pianista Alexey Lapin, registrando assieme ben tre lavori, di cui questo - tratto da un concerto del 21 dicembre 2010 a San Pietroburgo - è l'ultimo dopo Inner Spire e All Out (FMR Records). Nello stile di Carrier - che vanta collaborazioni che vanno da Uri Caine a Dewey Redman, da ...

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Francois Carrier - Alexey Lapin - Michel Lambert: Inner Spire

by AAJ Italy Staff
November 4, 2011

Inner Spire è stato registrato a Mosca nel dicembre 2010 nel corso di un brevissimo tour in Russia di questo trio inedito, ma molto ben assortito, formato dai due canadesi Carrier e Lambert a cui si è unito il batterista di San Pietroburgo Alexey Lapin. I tre musicisti (che già in precedenza avevano registrato in ordine sparso per la Leo Records) sono protagonisti e registi di una musica completamente improvvisata che - pur muovendosi su rotte già tracciate da altri ...

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Alexey Lapin / Melvyn Poore / Matthias Schubert / Roger Turner / Helen Bledsoe: Seek It Not With Your Eyes

Read "Seek It Not With Your Eyes" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza

by Jerry D'Souza
August 25, 2010

Pianist Alexey Lapin, tenor saxophonist Matthias Schubert and tubaist Melvyn Poore planned a trio date at Cologne, Germany's The Loft, on June 28, 2009. With percussionist Roger Turner in town, the trio became a quartet, and then flautist Helen Bledsoe sat in for a second set of two tunes. The original concept may have changed, but the direction the evening took did not. All of the music was improvised, except for “Can't Catch the Name," which took flight from a ...

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Take Five With...

Take Five With Alexey Lapin

by AAJ Staff
May 15, 2007

Meet Alexey Lapin: One day I was born in not so big town of Russia, another day I saw the piano, and then I knew what I want from that life. Meanwhile my parents were absolutely sure I should be an engineer. Instead of arguing with them, I went to university, took an external degree and acquired two professions, while music was my first friend, life-work and everything. But music was some kind of rock and around it as long ...