Home » Jazz Musicians » Igor OGOGO Grigoriev

Igor OGOGO Grigoriev

Throughout his musical journey, Igor's output has proven adventures and contradictional, both a natural product of Russia and a planetary act. His work output is a living complex of modern tendencies, comprehensible in all cultures.

The son of a Russian father and mother, Igor was born in the city of Moscow. He studied piano from the age of six and started to pick up guitar as a teenager. These were the seeds. And the soil, of course, is his homeland of Russia. A composer by training, Igor studied guitar with the famed teacher Michael Esacoff in Moscow, and it was at his insisting to investigate jazz legacy that Igor's explorations began in intensely serious form. He digged deep into the culture of Be-Bop, the Cool school, and spent time with various Avant-Garde systems, all the while working on a characteristic voice as a guitar player. Approximately, at that time Igor organized two improvised formations : Roof and Asphalt, representing free-style experimental music and rock avant-garde respectively. Music of this groups documented on different labels in Russia, Germany, and Great Britain. Over the last twenty-five years, the music of Igor has brought us, with its unique cultural legacy, an uncommon depth.

Tags

223
Album Review

Igor: Ogogo/Linden

Read "Ogogo/Linden" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


Russian-reared guitarist Igor throws the book at any musical notion that might hint at being conventional. With these frenetic solo pieces, the artist's works are based on the abstract paintings of Ron Linden, depicted in the album booklet. Here, Igor's electrified guitar parts are designed upon fragmented and interweaving passages, spiced with bizarre discourses and quirky EFX treatments. He injects a touch of humor into various movements via siren sounds and alien chatter then employs distortion techniques while dishing out ...

Read more articles
131

Recording

III Records Released OGOGO's New Ep Snowflake

III Records Released OGOGO's New Ep Snowflake

Source: Michael Ricci

On March 13th, III Records released guitarist/composer igOr OGOGO's Snowflake (IIIR107702) as a part of the Visions cycle, which commemorates “the creativeness and diversity of intuition in Avant-Garde music production." Motivated by the uncomplicated loveliness of Russian folk songs, and saxophonist John Coltrane's Ascension (Impulse!), this EP features three of OGOGO's innovative works for the chamber ensemble. The music of Snowflake developed during writing music for his 2009 release, Lunar Surphase (III Records), “I was for ...

168

Recording

Ogogo Release "Lunar Surphase" on III Records

Ogogo Release "Lunar Surphase" on III Records

Source: Michael Ricci

After the dazzling Redux, OGOGO, the trombone-guitar duo of Rod Oakes and Igor Grigoriev returns to their origins with a tour de force of Russian avant-garde with Lunar Surphase. Affluent and soulful, this is OGOGO at their most impressive, supported by extraordinary musicians and performing compositions extremely close to their spirit. Predisposed by the unusual modal system of Russian music, the counterpoint of Johann Sebastian Bach and the harmonic magnetism of Modest ...

154

Recording

OGOGO's "Redux" Available February 13

OGOGO's "Redux" Available February 13

Source: All About Jazz

OGOGO is proud to release their new duo album, Redux, which will be available February 13 on III Records. It's an electro-acoustic avant-garde inflected recording by way of a modified baroque aesthetic. The major trendsetter of contemporary Avant-Garde music, OGOGO has spoken itself in the lingua franca of Avant-Garde, Experimental, Classical, Collage, Ambiant, Atonal, Surreal, Electronic, Hypnotic Spacey Sound and Sociopath Recordings with easiness and eagerness. Apart from the stylistic background, their divergent trombone/guitar sound and compositions are distinctly OGOGO-like, ...

147

Recording

Ogogo/Linden CD is in Stores

Ogogo/Linden CD is in Stores

Source: All About Jazz

Album of the music by Igor based on the paintings of Ron Linden.

Igor is one of the most diverse musician/composer in modern music.

Looking at the interrelationship of Classical Avant-Garde and Jazz, or Experimental Rock music, or improvising live with Japanese Sitar(!) player Riko Tanaka, Igor methodically explored borders of musical styles and interconnections of various art forms.

In OGOGO-Linden album, Igor creates musical impressions of Ron Linden's paintings preserving the original titles of the works(Mussorgsky's Pictures At The ...

129

Recording

New Ogogo Release on III Records

New Ogogo Release on III Records

Source: All About Jazz

III Records releases OGOGO Solo View album. In the idiosyncratic Igor's Solo View album, the Los Angeles-based “classical avant-garde" composer and guitarist presents eight compositions with experimental pedigree. Listeners hear a distressing sketch of the aged, organ-playing Bach; the amusing alto sax player Charlie Parker; a philosophizing Key Me portrait; and five instrumental compositions focusing on Los Angeles and San Pedro, California. All compositions written by Igor (ASCAP) ...

"It is disturbing, uncompromising, well executed and produced, in-your-face avant garde music."

Don Campau - KKUP, San Francisco & Radio Marabu, Germany

"a wonderfully angular album of contemporary art-music"

Peter J Brown - toxic pete reviews, UK

Primary Instrument

Guitar

Willing to teach

Advanced only

Credentials/Background

Style - Jazz Education - Masters location - Los Angeles area, Sunset Rate per hour - $60

Music

Videos

Get more of a good thing!

Our weekly newsletter highlights our top stories, our special offers, and upcoming jazz events near you.