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MELD: prog, funk, jazz, grunge, electronica – fusion

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Our next track of the month from Witchcraft Jazz album is Swagger. It developed from a #jamsession in Saint Petersburg in 2012 when Victor and I met for the first time after a 22 year break. We fooled around at Victor's flat on Vasilievsky Island playing all sorts of #riffs and #tunes , some fragments from our old pieces like the track Future from our first 1988 #underground #tapealbum Perplanirovka (a pun on Perestroika but "perplanirovka" means "reshuffle" i.e. no real change, just a cosmetic face-lift cos... that's what it was) and the result is... this #track , #swagger. We took a combined approach of #sampling and #looping our own #play and #grooves and then added layers of arrangement, additional #impro and #soundscapes on top. Initially we used #drums#programmed by Victor but when Koos came on board so we recorded #livedrums, which added more #punch and #drive to the whole thing. We shot the first #musicvideo for the track Бяла - Byala , Bulgaria in 2013 but we didn't have a drummer then so we shot more footage in Stanhope, Durham , UK and Varna, Bulgaria which Victor skilfully put together. So here it is - #checkitout ! Full video on #youtube @https://youtu.be/aexs5r4H5Z0 #funkjam #фанк #prog #newtrack #soul #newmusic2018 #funkjazz #funk #jazzrock

Chuffed! A two and a half page interview in a major #british #rock & #metal #musik #magazine Fireworks Magazine, available in all #major #newsagents. "METAQUORUM, are an exciting and diverse international progressive rock project, or ‘meld music’ as the guys like to describe themselves. The band come from the UK, Russia, Holland, and Bulgaria. They have a superb new twelve track CD out now called ‘Witchcraft Jazz’ which runs in at just over an hour long and is the bands third release. [...] We use any style and music technique to achieve the effect and sound we want, to express the emotion or feeling, melding them organically in various proportions." #heavymetal #heavymetalmusic #melodicrock #prog #progressiverock #musicreview #newalbum2018 #albumreviews #bandinterview #rockbands #producer #ukrock #ukmusic #russianrock #bulgaria #dutchrockmusic #русскийрок #рокгруппа #рокжурнал #метал #хэвиметал @mastering.engineer

Look what just popped through the #letterbox ! Latest #edition of Progression Magazine, with Ross Boissoneau’s great #review of our #album Witchcraft Jazz: “Witchcraft Jazz is an appropriate title for this delightfully unpredictable, multi-textured mélange of jazz-fusion motifs and electronic hijinks that holds together remarkably well in terms of melodic arrangement. Funky rhythmic foundations, cryptic spoken-word bits, synthesized warblings – this disc (almost) has it all… MetaQuorum’s disarming resistance to being defined at all.” (Read more in the Progression #74, pp.93-94 ;) #musicmg #newmusicalert #instamusic #funky #funk #jazz #prog #electronica #fusionfestival #rockband #jazzband #jazzmusic #jazzmusician #rockmusician #рокмузыка #прогрок #инструментал #фанк #джаз #джазфанк #рецензия #рокжурнал @rock_houseru @every.progressive.ita @progressiverockcommunity

MYSTICAL STORY DESERVES TO BE TOLD…

Mystical story deserves to be told…

To wrap up our track of the month – The Bartender – we asked Victor Mikheyev, our bass player and music contributor, to say a couple of words about the history behind the track so here is a micro-essay – #checkitoutbelow! THE BARTENDER – a mystical story (English-Русский) I’ll have to start my tale from long ago. …

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Mystical story deserves to be told… August 29, 2018
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Parallax: composition & production notes August 5, 2018
All About Jazz and Blues Interview with Dmitry Ermakov July 26, 2018
Good review scores for Witchcraft Jazz May 9, 2018
HAPPY INTERNATIONAL JAZZ DAY! April 30, 2018
Witchcraft Jazz Gatefold CDs are here! March 3, 2018
HERE IT IS AT LAST! February 22, 2018
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Witchcraft Jazz Full Album Teaser January 27, 2018
WITCHCRAFT JAZZ Double Vinyl LP on PRE-ORDER NOW January 8, 2018
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SWAGGER VIDEO from WITCHCRAFT JAZZ album

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