July 13, Fr, 20:00
Andrey Suchilin, independent composer and guitarist
Andrey Suchilin, independent composer and guitarist, was born on July 28, 1959 in Kaluga. He started to play piano very young, and some years later studying double-bass graduated a musical college. In 1978 he went on to study Psychology, Philosophy and History of Art at the Moscow State University. During the university years, Suchilin got a taste for a guitar performing with many local jazz and rock ensembles. In 1980, joined with flutist/keyboardist Alexander Voronin and drummer Mikhail Plotnikov, he formed DO MAJOR, arguably one of the very first Russian avant-prog band. In 1981-1988, this formation put out several cassette-only albums and established itself as a true home for many young talents: violinist Alexei Aigi (later in ENSEMBLE 4’33), saxophonist Sergei Letov (with POPULAR MECHANICS and TRI-O), bassist Oleg Andreev, guitarist/saxophonist Yury Orlov (both with NIKOLAI KOPERNIK), to name just a few. In 1990, DO MAJOR were signed to Melodiya Records, the only record-company in the USSR, to make their official debut LP entitled Noema. Despite their success, Suchilin disbanded DO MAJOR in 1991 and left for Berlin to continue guitar-studies at Robert Fripp’s Guitar Craft School. He returned back to Russia in the mid ‘90s, and has been run his own micro-label Objective Music in Moscow.