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Alexey Lapin

We can say very little about the music we play. The music itself could say much more about us. Why is it interesting to know where we are from, who we are, when were we born, and so on, if you come to listen to music?

Destiny is a strange thing too… We could do something, but we can't. We could be somewhere, but we are not. And what will be the last point in our life? No one knows.

So what is the point of talking about ourselves? ...It's better to play...

Meanwhile, I love to play free jazz and all that's beyond it. Before I played hard bop. Some of my projects still sound like hard bop. But the thoughts run outside of standards. And then...

Then it tires me. That is why I prefer a free style of music. Nevertheless, this does not exclude composition. Time after time I write pieces of that kind, usually exclusively for particular musicians. Anyway some pieces (a large number, really) just lay in heap and wait for a chance to be performed.

This person is also reputed to be a very good sound engineer... All I could add to this is that at the moment I have two recording studios in St.Petersburg, and I absolutely agree with those people. :)

I really do not know what to add to the above. I love my God and believe music helps us to live.

Awards

Musician of the Year 2010


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Album Review

Alexey Lapin / Melvyn Poore / Matthias Schubert / Roger Turner / Helen Bledsoe: Seek It Not With Your Eyes

Read "Seek It Not With Your Eyes" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza


Pianist Alexey Lapin, tenor saxophonist Matthias Schubert and tubaist Melvyn Poore planned a trio date at Cologne, Germany's The Loft, on June 28, 2009. With percussionist Roger Turner in town, the trio became a quartet, and then flautist Helen Bledsoe sat in for a second set of two tunes. The original concept may have changed, but the direction the evening took did not. All of the music was improvised, except for “Can't Catch the Name," which took flight from a ...

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Take Five With Alexey Lapin

Read "Take Five With Alexey Lapin" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Meet Alexey Lapin: One day I was born in not so big town of Russia, another day I saw the piano, and then I knew what I want from that life. Meanwhile my parents were absolutely sure I should be an engineer. Instead of arguing with them, I went to university, took an external degree and acquired two professions, while music was my first friend, life-work and everything. But music was some kind of rock and around it as long ...

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"Hear how empathetically Lapin plays, restrained and focused enough only to play when contributions are absolutely necessary, and therefore most meaningful."
- Jason Bivins (Cadence Magazine, NY)

"His spacial awareness is clearly his greatest strength, and he embellishes the improvisations with a poise reminiscent of Misha Mengelberg. His personality doesn't rely on a bold presence -- his is anything but imposing -- but instead makes his mark through a wry delivery which seems to always find the mark and determinedly pursue it." - 'Seek it Not With Your Eyes' review by Morgan Martin

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Music

Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Concerto Grosso For...

SoLyd Records
2012

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In Motion

Leo Records
2012

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Parallels, Solo Piano

SoLyd Records
2011

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Inner Spire

Leo Records
2011

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Anatomy Of Sound

SoLyd Records
2010

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