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This tune called "Refreshments" from my new album "Dream Delivery" which is available in the internet, stores and it has been released at For Tune (http://store.for-tune.pl/home). The band is:

Igor Osypov - guitar
Wanja Slavin - alto sax
Max Mucha - bass
Moritz Baumgärtner - drums
Andreas Stoffels - studio engineer, mixing
Douglas Henderson - mastering

Igor Osypov was born in Ukraine in 1988. He started playing guitar at the age of 10 and as a child was really into punk and rock music, but at some point turned his way to jazz, and this passion still leads in his musical world. He was active on both Ukrainian and Russian jazz scenes, taking part in major jazz events there and making concert tours through Ukraine and Russia.
Igor's original compositions not only draw inspiration from the Jazz idiom, but other genres such as Classical and Rock.Igor moved to Germany in 2012, to dive into Berlin vibrant jazz scene. Currently he is attending Jazz Institute Berlin and studying with a renowned jazz guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel. Among his other teachers are John Hollenbeck, Greg Cohen, Kalle Kalima, Gerard Presencer, Geoffroy De Masure, Tino Derado, Guilherme Castro and Javier Reyes. During his studying Igor has also been awarded with Deutschlandstipendium and JIB-Jazz-Preis der Karl Hofer Gesellschaft 2015 (Bondarev/Osypov Quintet). Igor's been playing concerts and taking part at festivals all over Europe both with his own band and as a sideman. He is not limited within the genres, but plays mostly jazz - although, all kinds of it.
Both his tunes and his playing tend to be really emotional and complex. The influences of highly raged musical interests made Igor's music intellectually developed but still clear for all kinds of audience.
Shortly after arriving in Berlin, Igor founded his Quintet, featuring some of his favorite musicians from all over Europe and the USA. Since it’s inception, the Quintet has performed at festivals all around Europe including the Copenhagen Jazz Festival in Denmark, Burghausen Jazz Woche, HFM Jazz Preis, Xjazz Festival and Maggie Black's Jazz Rub in Germany, Jazz nad Odra in Poland, Jazz Bez in Ukraine and Poland and Jazz a Montauban in France. Has worked with Kurt Rosenwinkel, Josh Ginsburg, Wanja Slavin, Greg Cohen, Moritz Baumgärtner, Andreas Lang, Kenneth Dahl Knudsen, Elias Stemeseder, Uri Gincel, Tobias Backhaus, Johannes Fink and many others. In the summer of 2014, Igor Osypov recorded his debut CD with American saxophonist Logan Richardson (appeared on many recordings as a sideman as well as many under his own name and his band "Shift" the latest, which features jazz great Pat Metheny on guitar. Blue Note Records) which came out in the spring of 2015 on Unit Records.
In spring of 2016 the second album titled "Dream Delivery" came out on
For-Tune records.

"Dream Delivery"

For me, music is about time. In all meanings. It's about how it flows through you as you're playing or listening to it, but it is also about the moment, when it's played. One of the reasons, why I wanted to record this material, was that i wanted to capture the moment, when the flow of music overtakes the rules and well-thought structures, as I consider these moments the best and the most essential for any kind of art, but especially for jazz. That is why we have two completely improvised tunes on this album, that were created "on the spot". I hope that listeners will be able to have as much fun listening to it as we had recording, together with such great musicians as Wanja Slavin, Max Mucha and Moritz Baumgaertner. In another tune I made a choice of using an acoustic guitar, which has been my long-time passion, but that I was never able to play on my recordings. I find that its natural sound, full of heart and "raw" emotion, as it requires more physical effort, makes the music closer and more vivid. The most important thing for me is being honest in my music. The core of writing, playing and recording is, I believe, the same for all of us. That is my way of showing how i see the world and how I feel about it at this particular moment of life, and I'm trying to be as honest as possible in it.