Alexei Kruglow

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Alexei Kruglow, 2013

Alexei Kruglov ( Russian Алексей Круглов , in English transcription Alexey Kruglov , born September 5, 1979 in Pavlovsky Possad ) is a Russian musician ( basset horn , flute , soprano , baritone and alto saxophone ) and composer of free jazz and improvised music .

Live and act

Alexei Kruglow grew up near Moscow and first learned piano in a music school. He later studied at the Sergei Kazarnovsky Center and had lessons in improvisation with Arkady Shilkloper . As a student at the Gnessin Institute in Moscow , he began to write his first compositions; his song - 494 + I won the special prize at a festival in the jazz club The Blue Bird . In 2000 he took part in the Jazz Festival in the Hermitage (Saint Petersburg) , played with Gary Bartz in Moscow, and took part in the multimedia performance Fontana Re (Mix) after John Cage at the Alternativa Festival. The Moscow Association of Jazz Journalists voted him the Most Promising Artist of the Year. Kruglov composed the music for the silent film Baryshnya i khuligan (1918).

Kruglow is one of the well-known figures on the Moscow improvisation scene and plays free jazz in the tradition of the Ganelin Trio . He worked with all three members of this ensemble; so he recorded two albums in a duo with the drummer Vladimir Tarasov . Since the early 2000s he has been working with his own band projects such as the Krugly Band , as well as with Fritz Hauser and with the Estonian guitarist Jaak Sooäär . His music combines the energy of punk rock with black humor and folk- like lyricism, combined with an eccentric playing stance by playing different instruments at the same time, wrote a BBC critic.

Discographic notes

  • Transfiguration (SoLyd Records, 2001) with Sergej Khoutas, Petr Talalay, Alex Bekker, Vladimir Nesterenko
  • Music Of Anxiety (SoLyd Records, 2008)
  • Alexey Kruglov, Vladimir Tarasov - Dialogos (SoLyd Records, 2010)
  • Alexey Kruglov, Vladimir Tarasov - In Tempo (SoLyd Records, 2010)
  • Alexey Kruglov - Seal Of Time (Leo Records, 2010) with Igor Ivanushkin, Dmitry Bratukhin
  • Identification ( Leo Records , 2011)
  • Alexey Kruglov & Jaak Sooäär Trio - Karate (Leo Records, 2011)
  • Alexey Kruglov, Alexey Lapin, Vladimir Shostak - Composition # 37 (SoLyd Records, 2011)
  • Joachim Kühn & Alexey Kruglov; Duo Art (ACT 2014)
  • The Clarinet Trio plus Alexey Kruglov: Live in Moscow (Leo, 2017)
  • Baroque Art. Contemporary Harmony (2018)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Алексей Круглов, Биография (Russian, viewed December 20, 2012)
  2. ↑ Biographical information on CD-Baby
  3. ↑ (Free) Jazz Alchemist: Alexey Kruglov & Jaak Sooaar Trio - Karate
  4. ↑ Alexey Kruglov and The Thing in Session on BBC Radio 3
personal data
SURNAME Kruglow, Alexei
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kruglov, Alexey; Круглов, Алексей (Russian spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian jazz musician and composer
DATE OF BIRTH 5th September 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Pavlovsky Posad