Excite Quintet
“Emptiness”
(Jazzist, 2024)

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“Excite Quintet’s music is characterized by a powerful sound and the ability to accelerate compositions to impressive proportions. In some tracks, the musicians use abrupt transitions and pauses before the climax, creating an effect similar to the “drops” of club dance electronics. They are inventive in their sound. For example, they run the guitar through processors, giving it a cosmic, heart-rending sound, which is highly emotional. The music that results is best described as rapturous.” (Natalya Yugrinova)

“According to Excite Quintet, “emptiness” is the moment before the music is born. It’s the piano player’s heartbeat before he takes the first chord. Or it’s a clean musical staff over which a pencil is already hovering. It’s the beginning of all beginnings. And for the group, this album is also the beginning of a long journey.” (Lev Borovkov)

1. Kak-tak-ta
2. Homecoming
3. Thoughts at the End of the Day (feat. Art Baden)
4. Do You Think or Feel (Intro)
5. Do You Think or Feel
6. Labels (feat. Sergey Dolzhenkov)
7. Emptiness

Egor Popov: alto saxophone, composer (2)
Svyatoslav Epifanov: guitar
Vladimir Cheprasov: piano, composer (1, 4–7)
Artur Martirosyan: bass guitar
Omar Saidov: drums, composer (3)

Featuring:
Art Baden: tenor saxophone (3)
Sergey Dolzhenkov: trombone (6)

Recorded by Yakov Zakhvatkin at CineLab SoundMix Studio, Moscow
Edited by Maxim Almyashev
Mixed and mastered by Owen Mulholland at 35th Street Studio, NYC

Excite Quintet manager: Elizaveta Shapovalova
Executive producer: Araik Hakobyan

Cover art by Jazzist

Recorded with the support from the New/Open Showcase Festival.

Omar Saidov is an Istanbul Agop Cymbals endorser. Art Baden is an endorser of Remy Saxophones by Remy Veerman.

Jazzist, 2024
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