Vlad Makarov

Vlad MAKAROV – is the free improv musician, painter and improviser cello & guitar. He is the pioneer of Russian new improvised music and Russian alternative art. From the different styles; free improvisation, contemporary classic, new jazz, experimental, noise, electro-acoustic music - Makarov’s aesthetic is not postmodernism but the authentic own language for making the art whole. Worked with both Russian and Western alternative music stars; Chris Cutler, Fred Frith, Shelley Hirsch, Henry Kaiser, Phil Minton, LaDonna Smith, Maggie Nicols, Alex Kolkovsky, Vladimir Miller, Ives Robert, Didier Petit, Marc Sarrazy, Jacques Siron, Dror Feiler, Marcus Eichenberger, Mich Gerber, Tomasz Stanko, Erhard Hirt, Alfred Harth, Dror Feiler, Ryoji Hojito a.o. and so Sergey Kuryokhin, S.Letov, Sainkho, V.Ponomareva, V.Gayvoronsky, A.Nesterov, V.Dudkin, A.Aigui, M.Yudenich, N.Sudnik, E.Sivkov, A.Borisov, N.Rubanov, Y.Yaremchuk, D. Kachovsky, R.Stolyar, Ilia Belorukov o.a.…emotional pressure tragic freedom