The title I’ve chosen for the project ANTITHESES is an allusion, easy or hard, at the discretion of the preconceived potential listener, to eternal questions of New music to the conventional music. Antitheses are not the ever ready answers, but the attempt to declare something especial, important. They are devoid of mockery of postmodernist discourse, they pretend to the serious position and to the determination of game rules.
Expressionism inherent in antitheses is natural for there is no need to ask questions in essence without sincerity and excitement.
My "prickly" violoncello gets on well with no less "prickly" saxophone of Ilya Belorukov. Though there are no revelations, for the improve ground is already too rammed for the last 20 years, but it’s the experience of teamwork that is important to us, representatives of different generations easily found a common language.
As a result we have obtained a quite tolerable product, fairly uncompromising, and even well spiced here and there by the traditions of free-jazz and new classics.
Vlad Makarov
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