Yaroslav Likhachev Quartet – Crumbling
Yaroslav Likhachev - ts
Yannis Anft - p
Conrad Noll - b
Moritz Baranczyk - dr
1. November Tune (7'56) / 2. The Fifth Mode (3'51) / 3. Ballad For Eli (8'08) / 4. Crumbling (9'41) / 5. He Must Go, And He Goes (9'30) / 6. Sicilian Flower (7'15) / 7. U74 (4'14) / 8. Traceless Rails, Traceless Waters (7'50)
The Yaroslav Likhachev Quartet exists since 2016 and it features the compositions of the band's leader and tenor saxophonist which are belonging to the field of modern jazz, deeply rooted in the US American jazz tradition.
"Crumbling" - the work with musical crumbles, fragments, sometimes almost even nuclear creative particles within the cosmos of improvised music - is about the creative act of discovering new ways on a journey to individual and inventive arranging of composing and structuring processes. Each piece of Yaroslav Likhachev's production "Crumbling" appears to be a coherent musical world: echoes from the universe of Contemporary Music, underground culture and modern jazz encounter in a colourfully contrasting manner meeting variations of bop vocabulary and its contemporary interpretation. Yaroslav Likhachev says: "The 'crumbling process' is unstoppable and develops further and further. This album is also just a photograph, just a detail of the process itself."
(release date: Apr 16, 2020)
- "Alle Kompositionen auf dem Album stammen aus der Feder von Likhachev. Beim Coverbild muss man einerseits an den sogenannten Rohrschachtest denken, an Tintenklecksbilder, die in der psychologischen Anamnese eine Rolle spielen, anderseits aber auch an die Tuschezeichnung einer Tänzerin, wie wir sie von den Arbeiten Edgar Degas her kennen. Doch die Frage bleibt, wie das mit dem Albumtitel korrespondiert. 'Crumblig' bedeutet ja 'zerbröseln, bröseln'. Wenn man dies weiter fasst, könnte man von Fragmentieren, Auseinanderfallen u. ä. sprechen." (Ferdinand Dupuis-Panther, jazz'halo, Mai 2020)
- "Diese durch die Errungenschaften der Avantgarde erweiterten Auffassungen von Modern Jazz, die fein ziselierten Dramaturgien der Stücke und die schönen, sehr gefühlvollen Balladen sind die hervorstechenden Merkmale dieses Programms und ergeben ein insgesamt gelungenes, sehr phatnasievolles und ansprechendes Debüt." (Benno Bartsch, Jazzpodium 7-8/2020: 62.)
- "And that's because Likhachev, along with the equally tenacious pianist Yannis Anft, teamed with bassist Conrad Noll's existential investigations of indigo and boundary, and drummer Moritz Baranczyk's ghost beats and whispers, frame the saxophonist's eight spacious compositions as all inclusive conversations. Between players. Between listeners. Between time and space." (Mike Jurkovic, All About Jazz, 23 July 2020)
- "But let’s mention: The feeling of hitting a wall through the originality of the music increases, the excitement rises, love soars, all the emotions and transcendent feelings are awakened in the psyche. [...] Crumbling is a new approach to jazz; an album perfect for those who are fundamentally looking for new answers." (Emre Adam, Jazz Dergisi, 2 Dec 2020)
- "Num ano em que tudo parece ter corrido mal, eis que surge alguém com a sapiência dos velhos e o espírito dos novos, pondo-nos de novo a vibrar com música que renova o vocabulário de uma tradição com o espírito e a ousadia de uma nova geração. Que mais seria possível pedir?" (João Morado, Beats for Peeps, 7 Feb 2021)
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