"A promising saxophonist of a brand new formation who's not overburdened with problems we have... he plays much and easily." Vladislav Makarov
Ilia is a young (born 1987) saxophonist from Saint-Petersburg, Russia. He works in the direction of free improvisation, free-jazz, noise and electroacoustic music. Ilia practices an experimental approach of sound extraction on different types of saxophones (alto, tenor and baritone) and on flute (inc. fluteophone).
In his compositions and improvisations you can find out influences of John Zorn, Derek Bailey, Mats Gustafsson, Evan Parker and other masters of improvised music.
The artist records and distributes his music by himself. He often plays at The Gallery of Experimental Sound – 21 (GES-21) , Saint-Petersburg.
Ilia has played with such musicians as Vladislav Makarov , Nikolay Rubanov , Alexey Lapin , Dmitriy Kakhovskiy , Alexei Borisov , Philip Croaton .Together with Dots & Lines group (trio with Roman Stolyar and Andrey Popovskiy ) he performed on the festival of Jazz.Ru portal dedicated to it’s 10th anniversary. He’s also a member of Wozzeck , Totalitarian Musical Sect (TMS) and Dadazu groups.
He collaborates with musicians of other genres: with Moscow groups crrust (experimental hardcore), Tooth Kink (noise, live electronics), Motherfathers (noise-rock), Solntsetsvety (magical unicellular music); with St.-Petersburg ethno-punks Nervenklinik and Benzolnye Mertvecy (power violence), with Samara mathcore-band Penny Flame .
Selected Discography:
2007
Totalitarian Musical Sect "Warm Things vol.1" ( Clinical Archives ca061 )
Dadazu "Sin of Omission" (farm 05)
Secret. What is There Inside? (reissue) ( Clinical Archives ca072 )
Wanderers Nachtlied II ( Clinical Archives ca073 )
Ilia Belorukov / Roman Stolyar / Andrey Popovskiy / Alexander Funtikov "Dots & Lines" (Ermatell JCD 059)
Wozzeck "Act I" ( Clinical Archives ca087 )
2008
Saxophone Solos vol.1 (reissue) ( Clinical Archives ca096 )
LenQuartet "The Music of the First July's Day" ( Digital Biotope db042 )
Totalitarian Musical Sect "Warm Things vol.2" ( Clinical Archives ca109 )
Melomania ( Clinical Archives ca120 )
Vlad Makarov & Ilia Belorukov "Antitheses" ( Haze 029 )
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