Danya invited me to record his new band and I liked the music so much that helped the young musicians with production of the album. The heart beats of DYW are live drums. I've never heard of improvising so freely with a rhythm like Volodya before. The sound of the album was built around the drums - they were recorded very acoustic with only 3 microphones in a huge hall with a very beautiful reverberation. Alexey Sysoev ingeniously combined two worlds - acoustic chamber recording of drums with more traditional studio recording of bass, sax and electronics parts. Yasha and Danya then worked on electronics for a long time and a lot was thought out in postproduction. It was a jewelry work around live music that preserved the energy of that recording session - in the center of which Dasha danced.


Originaly released by White Paper Records on November 30, 2020

Daniel Izmaylov - bass, electronics
Yasha Nasedkin - sax, electronics
Vladimir Smirnov - drums


Recorded at The Center of Drama and Directing 8th February 2020.

Recorded by Peter Ototsky
Mixed and mastered by Alexey Sysoev

Produced by Daniel Izmaylov and Peter Ototsky

Special thanks to our families, Dasha Tishko for ambience and a beautiful dance while recording, Vladimir Pankov and The Center of Drama and Directing, Misha SPRT, Sasha Ageeva, Kate Kanaeva, Efim Strand and Liza Baryshova aka @Liza.please (insta) for artworks and design, Inna Vorobyova, Polina Katamaran and Peter Ototsky for this record.


Legend:
"Somewhere in the Middle East a young man lived. His name was Nafas Ormazd if anything. Nafas loved everything about music. He had a huge collection of vinyl. Some of them were so rare that no one else knew of their existence.

One day Nafas decided to go to Kabul. Sharakul Babah and Gatol , two friends, lived there. So they went to the Sunday market to find the new and rare vinyl there if anything. After 4 hours and 33 minutes of searching without any result Nafas noticed the old man (Jah Bless Him if anything). He was selling really old and antique stuff. But all the attention of young men was riveted on the vinyl, which they had never seen before.

An old man said: "This is DYW. They play futurejazz, the music which will be listened to in the year of 3020 if anything. Buy a copy now or you'll regret till death". Nafas bought the vinyl and the old man suddenly disappeared leaving no trace. That's how this record is here if anything".


Recording chain:
drum overheads -> Schoeps CMC52 pair (AB-40) -> Lipinski Sound l-409 (preamp)
drum kick -> AKG c414 xls
bass guitar -> AKG c414 xls
saxophone -> Schoeps CMC54
electronics -> line x2 (keyboard and amplified sax)
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7 channels -> Sound Devices 788t