Vladimir Petrovich Tarasov

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Vladimir Tarasov

Vladimir Petrovich Tarasov , also Vladimir Tarasov ( Russian Владимир Петрович Тарасов ; born June 29, 1947 in Arkhangelsk ) is a Russian drummer of avant-garde jazz , composer and visual artist. As a member of the first Ganelin Trio, he was one of the most prominent representatives of the Russian and Lithuanian jazz scene of the 1970s and 1980s.

Live and act

Tarasov was born in the northern Russian port city of Arkhangelsk and worked as a musician in various Russian cities before coming to Vilnius , where he first met the pianist Vyacheslav Ganelin in the mid-1960s and worked in an orchestra. After temporary stays, he finally moved to the Lithuanian capital in 1971 to intensify cooperation with Ganelin; After 1971, when the saxophonist Vladimir Tschekassin joined, the Ganelin Trio was founded , which - with the Archangelsk group of Vladimir Resizkis and Sergei Kurjochin's band Pop Mechanics - was to be one of the most sensational avant-garde jazz formations of the late Soviet era. The collaboration in the Ganelin Trio , which lasted until 1987 when Ganelin emigrated to Israel , is documented on numerous albums by the London label Leo Records . With Ganelin he also recorded a duo album ("Pous a2") in 1982; The solo album "Atto" was created in 1984. In the spring of 1986 the drummer went on a tour through the GDR together with Hannes Zerbe and Bernd Konrad .

Vladimir Tarasov first played for many years in the State Symphony Orchestra of the Republic of Lithuania as a drummer; that was his job. In the Ganelin Trio they played about three to four times a month. As a member of a Soviet delegation, he visited Ghana and played with local musicians. He was also involved in recordings by Alfred Harth , Andrew Cyrille , Keshavan Maslak and Wolfgang Muthspiel's album with Eastern European musicians ("Indirect View of Beauty", 1992). In a trio with Lauren Newton and Patrick Scheyder , he recorded the live album Artesian Spirits - live in Borjomi . In 1994 he worked with the Chinese Thundering Dragon Percussion Group ("Chinese Project"). Together with Vladimir Volkov he accompanied the singer Sainkho Namtchylak ( Aura , 1999). In 2005 he worked with Anthony Braxton and György Szabados ( Triotone ).

Tarassow also composed music for orchestra as well as film and theater music, such as for the Staatstheater Stuttgart 1995, the Majestic Theater in the Brooklyn Academy of Music , New York 1995; the Josef Nadj Center Choreographique National Orleans , Orleans 1998 and 2004 as well as for the Theater Vidy-Lausanne, Meierhold Center in Moscow 2003. According to Bert Noglik , he “exudes something of the superiority of a philosopher” on stage.

Since 1991 Tarassow has also been working as a visual artist in the field of visual arts and has worked with artists such as Ilya Kabakov , Sarah Flohr and others. His works have been shown in solo and group exhibitions. a. in the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf 1991; the Venice Biennale 1993; the Museum of Contemporary Art , Chicago 1993; at the Center Georges Pompidou , Paris 1995 as well as in the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow and the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg in 2004.

publication

  • with Jewgenija N. Petrovna (Ed.): Sound Games of 300-years of St. Petersburg . Palace Editions, Bad Breisig 2003, ISBN 3-935298-43-9 .

Selected discographic references

  • Chinese Project (rec 1994, ed.Sonore 2000)
  • Ganelin Trio: Catalog: Live in East Germany (Leo1979 - LR 102)
  • Ganelin Trio: Ancora da Capo (Leo 1980 - LR 108)
  • Alexey Kruglov & Vladimir Tarasov - In Tempo (SoLyd Records, 2010)
  • Alexey Kruglov, Vladimir Tarasov - Dialogos (SoLyd Records, 2010)
  • Vladimir Tarasov & Krugly Band Orchestra: Sound Tapestries (2020)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ After B. Noglik Jazzwerkstatt

literature

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personal data
SURNAME Tarasov, Vladimir Petrovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tarasov, Vladimir; Тарасов, Владимир Петрович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian drummer and artist
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Arkhangelsk