MYSTIC MORRISON VISIONS from Volzhsky, the Volgograd region (from left to right are): Garegin Benglyants (drums), Dmitry Smolentsev (keyboards), and Aleksej Esin (bass). The band’s history went back to 2002 when Benglyants and Esin used to play (respectively on keyboards and on solo flute) in a obscure rock ensemble DR.ZOLDBERG. In 2009, when the group got disbanded, the two resumed rehearsals teaming up with well-experienced keyboardist D. Smolentsev: respectively Benglyants shifted from keyboards to drums and Esin picked up a bass guitar. The trio perform all instrumental, keyboard driven, colorful music straddling a border between avant-garde improvisation and funky-jazz groove… For more information or booking please contact the band through their MyspaceMusic page.
"Fuzzy Set" is a debut mini-album by MMV. Recorded live in Astrakhan on June 05, 2010. Recorded by Alexander Kuzovlev and Alexei Klabukov (of VESPERO) at the STD. Mixed by Alexander Kuzovlev.
PRESS CLIPS
"Some may call this jazz fusion but I am reminded more of the jazz funk experiments in the 70s by musicians such as Herbie Hancock and Don Pullen. The tracks tend to be on the frantic side with a lot of playing with meters and rock riffs, a tendency they share with Bad Plus. Yet it is a good mix of jazz and rock influences that should please all jazz and rock fans." – by Marvin Vernon of Free Albums Galore (USA) (December 2010).
