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Vlad Makarov
Vladislav Makarov as a musician follows the aesthetic creed of free improvised music. He has developed his own structural method of improvisation.
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VLADISLAV MAKAROV (b.1950)
Vlad MAKAROV is the free improv musician, painter and improviser cello
& guitar. He is the pioneer of Russian new improvised music and
Russian alternative art. From the different styles; free
improvisation, contemporary classic, new jazz, avant-rock,
experimental, noise, electro-acoustic music.
Makarov’s aesthetic is not postmodernism but the authentic own
language for making the art whole. Makarov as a musician follows the
aesthetic creed of free improvised music. He has developed his own
structural method and style of improvisation.
His music filled emotional pressure of the tragic freedom.
Worked with both Russian and Western alternative music stars;
John Fisher, Fred Frith, Henry Kaiser , Greg Goodman, Jim Menesis,
LaDonna Smith (USA), Elton Dean, Chris Cutler, Maggie Nichols, Phil
Minton , Vladimir Miller, Alex Kolkovsky (England), Erhard Hirt,
Martin Teurer, Heinz-Erich Goedecke, Alfred Harth, Hans Schuttler,
Martin Verborg, Paul Schwingenschloegl (Germany), Ive Robert, Didier
Petit , Misha Lobko (France) Jacques Siron, Markus Eichenberger ,
Fahrt Art Trio, Duo Fatale (Switzerland), Dror Feiler and “Lokomotiv-
Konkret” (Sweden), Ryoji Hojito (Japan).
with Russian musicians: Sergey Kuryokhin, Sergey Letov, Sainkho,
Valentina Ponomareva, Vjacheslav Gayvoronsky, Alexandr Nesterov,
Valery Dudkin, Alexey Aigui, Michael Yudenich, Nick Sudnik, Ed Sivkov,
Alexey Borisov, Nick Rubanov, Yury Yaremchuk, Dmitry Kachovsky, Roman
Stolyar, Ilia Belorukov o.a.
Since 1980 he is performing as solo cellist-improviser and with
various musicians. He has been participant of many festivals, actions,
concerts of jazz, rock, contemporary and avant-garde music: Moscow,
St. Petersburg, Yaroslavl, Volgograd, Ekaterinburg, Smolensk, Vologda,
Arkhangelsk;
Riga, Tallinn, Vilnius, Parnu, Kiev, Kharkov, Minsk, Lvov;
London, Berlin, Cologne, Muenster, Dresden, Hamburg, Dortmund, Hagen,
Val Poschiavo, Switzerland.
* 1991-92 Music organizer of Smolensk Humanitarian Foundation
Festivals and various actions
*
1992 Participant of international project MITROPA EUROPIUM
(Berlin, Podewil with M. Bangerter, M. Nichols, V. Kuchan, T. Stanko
a. o.)
* 1994 German tour with Moscow Composers Orchestra (Cologne-
Hamburg-Kassel-Berlin)
* 1995 German tour - The Makarov Quartet (Hagen-Dortmund-Muenster)
* 1996 London. The Queen Elizabeth Hall Unsung Music Festival
* 1998 StPetersburg SKIF 3- Trio V.Makarov-Dror Feiler-M.Yudenich
* 1999 Berlin. Pushkin festival
* 2000 StPetersburg SKIF 4 Duo Shelley Hirsch - V.Makarov
* 2001 StPetersburg SKIF 5 Makarov-Quintet
* 2003 StPetersburg SKIF 7 Dark Side of the Sound project
* 2003 Moscow tour. Xtra-project with Markus Godwin, Dmitry
Khahovsky
* 2003 Berlin. Mudd-club. New Russian Project with Paul
Schwingenschloegl, Eugeny Makarov,Valia Chesnes
* 2004 Moscow FSK < 15 Years After> with Henry Kaiser, John Oswald
StPetersburg SKIF 8 < XTRA-trio> with D.Khahovsky& Eugeny akarov
* 2004 Berlin Tour MAKARoff DEFRAGMENT feat. JazzKeller Club
Vlad Makarov-Gilles Aubry-Evgeny Makarov
* 2004 StPetesburg. Art Center Pushkinskaya 10- Festival of
Independent Art Defragment-Band Makarov-Khahovsky-Davydov-Yudenich
Nevember Band Rubanov-Yaremchuk-Khahovsky-Makarov & friends
* 2005 StPetesburg SKIF-9 & Moscow FSK
MAKARoff DEFRAGMENT
Vlad Makarov - Gilles Aubry - Evgeny Makarov
special guest Alexey Borisov
* 2006 St Petersbourg SKIF-10
Fred Frith- Chris Cutler - Vlad Makarov ( as special guest )
project MAKAROV - SARRAZY - MAKAROV
* 2006 St Petersbourg, Cultural centre Pushkinskaja-10
MAKARof BAILEY BAND
* 2007 Moscow, Cultural Center DOM. Raw and Cooked: Roman Stolar -
VladMakarov - Sergey Letov - Mikhail Davydov
* 2007 Smolensk Art media project IN_4MATION
* 2007 Ekaterinburg JAZZ TRANSIT: Vlad Makarov - Sergey Pron -
Igor Parashchuk - Vitaly Vladimirov - Sergey Belichenko
* 2007 Kiev ALEXANDER NESTEROV memorial
* 2007 Val Poschiavo, Switzerland UNCOOL-2007
DISCOGRAPHY
1. Document. New music from Russia. The 80-s. Leo Records CD LR 80
2. Golden Years of Soviet New Jazz vol.III Leo Records CD GY
409/412
2002
3. Valentina Ponomareva. Iskushenie. Melodia C60-28293 (LP)
4. Kings & cabbages. Moscow Composers Orchestra. Leo Records
Laboratory Leo Lab CD 005 (CD)
5. Moscow Composers Orchestra & Sainkho. Life at City Garden. U-
Sound UD 95027 (CD)
6. Outbursts. Quartet Miller-Makarov-Yudenich-Letov/Sivkov.
Ascension Music (MC)
7. Hagen Studio Trio. Makarov-Hirt-Verborg. Ton-Studio (MC)
8. Space-Mythology-Silence. Makarov-Yudenich Duo. Europe+ Studio
(MC)
9. Hot Summer in Berlin. V.Makarov - P. Schwingenschloegl - E.
Makarov. Extra Records 001 (CD-R)
10. Live in Mudd Club. V.Makarov - P. Schwingenschloegl - E.
Makarov. Extra Records 002 (CD-R)
11. Music out of Time. Makarov - Gayvoronsky - Rubanov. Mar Art 009
(CD-R)
12. Music not in itself. Makarov - Aigui - Sivkov - Boys Band Trio.
Mar Art 010 (CD-R)
13. Pushkin Vigil. Makarov - Rubanov - Runovskaya - Davydov. Mar Art
005 (CD-R)
14. Invitation to. Makarov - Sherly Hirsch - Erhard Hirt - Greg
Goodman - Hernry Kaiser - LaDonna Smith - Phil Minton. Mar Art 008
(CD-R)
15. Caprices for cello and voice. Makarov - Davydov - Ishchenko -
Dostaj Mar Art 003 (CD-R)
16. The End of a Belle Epoch. Makarov - Vladimir Miller - Sivkov -
Yudenich. Mar Art 002 (CD-R)
17. Vladimir Miller and Quartets. Long Arms CDLA 03052
18 Moscow Composers Orchestra with Sainkho “Portrait of an
Idealist” Leo Records CD LR 527 2008
MAk A R T RECORDS
1. Space Mythology Silence V.Makarov - M.Yudenich 1996
2. The End of a Belle Epoch V.Makarov-V.Miller-E.Sivkov-M.Yudenich
3. Caprices for Cello and Voic? V.Makarov-L. Ishenko-M.Davydov-
O.Dostay 1997
4. The Hand V. Makarov - S. Letov 1984-88
5. Pushkin Vigil - live at Pushkinskaja 10. Makarov-Rubanov-
P.Runovskaja-M.Davydov
6. The Death of Andropov V.Makarov -S.Letov - M. Yudenich 1984
7. A.Kondrashkin A.Kondradhkin - S.Letov - V.Makarov 1983-88
8. Invitation to? Shelley Hirsch, Erhard Hirt,Greg Goodman,Henry
Makarov & Friends Kaiser, LaDonna Smith, Phil Minton,Vlad
Makarov
9. Music Out of Time V.Makarov-V.Gayvoronsky-N.Rubanov 2000
10. Music-Not-In-Itself DOM projects V.Makarov-A.Aigi-E.Sivkov-Boys
Band Trio 2001
11. Middle Russian Exotic Project V.Makarov-N.Rubanov-M.Davydov-
M.Yudenich
12. Makarov on Leo-records compilatoin CD Mak-Art
13. Defraghment MAKARoff DEFRAGMENT V.Makarov-Gilles Aubry-E.Makarov
2004
14. Makarov Anthology compilation CD Mak-Art 014 2004
15. Live in JazzKeller XTRAtrio V.Makarov-P.Schwingenschloegl-
E.Makarov
Pentagramma Records
1. Vlad Makarov - Serguei Letov. The Hand. Introduction to
deconstruction of. 021 CD
(S. Letov - alto, bass clarinet, soprano saxophones; V. Makarov
-cello)
2. The Death of Andropov/Antonius' Birthday Party (S. Letov -
soprano, alto, baritone saxophone, V. Makarov -cello, M. Yudenich -
percussion). Recorded in Riga, Latvian SSR, USSR 022 CD
3. Alexandr Kondrashkin. Recordings 1983-1984 with S. Letov and V.
Makarov 023 CD
4. Psycho. Vlad Makarov + Sergey Letov. Recorded in Smolensk,
October 2002 035 CD
5. Alexandr Axionov, Sergey Letov, Vlad Makarov, Alexandr
Kondrashkin in Riga, Latvian SSR, USSR. January 1984 038 CD
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