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KARMA FUSION GROUP
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Out of 18 votes - Similar Artists: John McLaughlin, Joe Zawinul, Chick Corea, Dave Grusin.
Out of 18 votes
- Location: Moscow, Russian Federation
- Genre: Jazz » Fusion
Editor's review
What can a Russian group bring to the American-born medium of jazz? More than you can imagine, boasts the Karma Fusion Group. Try out some jazz-rock with a breakbeat and blues underpinning. Or some odd-metered fusion with Middle Eastern lyricism.
Biography
Karma Fusion Group
Studio group. Basic direction in art: different genres of modern psychedelic and electronic music including such trends as Jazz-Rock, Fusion, New Instrumental music, Art Rock, New Age and others.
The group consists of highly professional musicians. The first cast of the group (1986) consisted of musicians of Symphonic and Pop Music Orchestra of the State TV and Broadcasting Commitee (Gosteleradio). These were the following musicians: Michail Larin ? guitar; Andrey Tsekhotsky ? bass guitar; Boris Smirnov ? keyboards, vocal; Konstantin Molkov ? keyboards, Vladimir Kornev ? percussion.??
The group played mainly the music of foreign composers. Hard-Rock, Jazz-Rock and Fusion compositions were included in the program.
Since 1987 the group has started to work on the music of their own composition. These are compositions by Michail Larin. In 1990 the music of the group can be heard on the radio. Studio record has become the main direction in the work of the group. Next years the cast of group has changed several times. As the result of this the works of different years are different in sound, usage of instruments, arrangement. In the period from 1995 to 2003 the group released? 4 albums: ?Armageddon?, ?The Moon gift?, ?Guardian Angel?, ?War of Worlds? and also the music for computer program ?The Tourist Atlas of the World by Kirill and? Mefody?.
Talented musician, composer, arranger, sound producer Michail Larin is the founder and permanent leader of the group. For years of existence the group has develloped its own fresh style of play and original sound performing music by Michail Larin.
