Hyperfocus, by Igor Yakovenko

Hyperfocus

by Igor Yakovenko

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rvss.eel A piano, double bass, and drums trio that should sound much too straight-jazz for my taste, but instead, I love it, so I won't claim to know at all what's going on here that makes it so good. At any time throughout Hyperfocus I can hyperfocus in on either of the instruments and find satisfaction in how it plays with and around the others. I would enjoy a little more punch in the drum sound, but that's only a personal taste comment on a percussive performance that I fully enjoy. Top jazz of 2023. Favorite track: Hyperfocus.

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1.	Opening 07:04	buy track
2.	Kara Dag 06:30	buy track
3.	Don't Ask Yakubovich 08:24	buy track
4.	Hyperfocus 05:37	buy track
5.	Elegy No.2 07:05	buy track
6.	No Touch 05:54	buy track
7.	Foreboding 07:46	buy track

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Igor Yakovenko Trio presents it’s new album “Hyperfocus”. All compositions are written by Yakovenko and the name of the record is based on the idea of developing the depth of the music, but not the volume of it, concentrating on a small amount of information and endless listening. This minimalist approach to jazz helps the listener to focus deeply on one emotion and explore, and feel it as much as possible.

Igor Yakovenko

Composer and pianist Igor Yakovenko belongs to a new generation of musicians with no boundaries between classical and non-academic music, switching the roles between author and performer. For him, there is also no boundaries between creativity and the exact sciences: choosing between music and technology in his youth, he first graduated from the Aerospace University.

Engineering education pushed Yakovenko to overcome the isolation of the musical worlds: he studied at the Moscow Conservatory at the Department of Historical and Modern Instrumental Performance, and also received an improvisational degree at the Maimonides Academy under the guidance of Igor Bril. Combining the exemplary classical school of piano and harpsichord with the skill of a jazz pianist, he is a versatile musician with a unique signature style.

Yakovenko's virtuoso and instantly recognizable playing is appreciated by listeners of his solo and piano trio concerts. In 2020 he became a member of the residence of Snape Maltings (Great Britain), which hosts the world-famous Aldeburgh Festival founded by Benjamin Britten.

A contrasting musical background led Yakovenko to numerous projects: he wrote the opera “Guilty” for the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Theater, released five albums in the FANCYMUSIC label - a place of power for innovative composer music, performed at leading art venues - Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Jewish Museum, National Center for Contemporary Art, Stanislavsky Electrotheatre, Spiridonov House, and academic halls - Zaryadye Concert Hall, State Academic Chapel of St. Petersburg, etc.

Now residing in Italy, Yakovenko is ready to release his new trio album “Hyperfocus” on Rainy Days label with Sasha Mashin on the drums and Makar Novikov on the double bass.

Makar Novikov

Makar Novikov is one of the well-known double bass players in european jazz scene. Great accompanist and virtuoso soloist with beautiful sound, he was the partner of many famous jazz musicians: Jimmy Cobb, Clark Terry, Jimmy Heath, Kenny Barron, James Spaulding, Lew Tabakin, Debora Brown, Jimmy Greene, Gene Jackson, Steve Slagle, Giacomo Gates, Craig Handy, Gary Smulyan, Alex Sipiagin, Sasha Mashin, Gregory Hutchinson, Isfar Sarabski and many others. In 2022 Makar moved to Italy and start working in Italian projects with Rosario Giuliani trio, Maurizio Giammarco among others.

Sasha Mashin

Sasha Mashin was born in 1976 in St. Petersburg. In 1991 he joined the Kvadrat jazz-club where he met many jazz musicians. After studying for two months at the Musorgsky Music College, he decided to start his professional career. In 1998 moved to Moscow where he kept busy collaborating with some of Russia’s best jazz musicians. In 2005 Sasha Mashin participated in the educational program Open World Program USA in New York and played with such legends as Clark Terry, Kenny Barron and Jimmy Heath at the Blue Note Jazz Club.
Since 2008 he started traveling around the globe with Isfar Sarabski band. Sasha Mashin performed with a long list of musicians such as Benny Golson, Clark Terry, Jimmy Heath, Kenny Barron, Johnny Griffin, Lew Tabackin, James Spaulding, Eddy Henderson, Steve Slagle, Gary Smulyan, Larry Schneider, Mark Turner, Donny McCaslin, Rosario Giuliani, Alex Sipiagin, Isfar Sarabski, Dhafer Youssef and many others. Since February 2022 Sasha is living in Italy and collaborating with Alex Sipiagin, Rosario Giuliani, Antonio Farao, Robert Bonisolo, Pietro Tonolo, Paolo Birro, Mauro Negri, Michele Calgaro, Dado Moroni.

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released July 12, 2023

Igor Yakovenko - piano
Makar Novikov - double bass
Sasha Mashin - drums

All compositions are written by Igor Yakovenko.
Recording engineer Andrea Ciacchini.
Mixed and mastered by Andrea Ciacchini.
Recoded at S.A.M. Recording Studio 29,30 June 2022 at Lari, Tuscany, Italy.
Executive producer Eugene Petrushanskiy.
Photographer Mitya Ganopolskiy.
Cover Design by Dimitri Komedea / 271dsgn.

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