III Records Released OGOGO’s New CD Snowflake

March 12, 2010 - PRLog -- III Records Released OGOGO’s New CD Snowflake

(March 13, 2010)
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Los Angeles, CA - On March 13th, III Records released guitarist/composer igOr OGOGO’s Snowflake (IIIR107702) as a part of the Visions cycle, which commemorates “the creativeness and diversity of intuition in Avant-Garde art.” Motivated by surrealist artist Salvador Dali, this EP features three of OGOGO’s innovative works for the chamber ensemble.

The music of Snowflake developed during writing music for his 2009 release, Lunar Surphase (III Records), “I was for the most part pleased with the outcome of ‘Dali’, the number eight track on that album,” igOr OGOGO explains, “which looked at the unusual sculptures of Salvador Dali in comparing to his familiar paintings. I sought after to carry on writing compositions based on the images in that title, but for a chamber ensemble, which offers the music additional plasticity and lets me to further explore my Russian music heritage.”

The powers of Dali, and his creative output, are showing up in this venture, both in titles and the principal intention. “There’s a profound, mysterious sensation I find from looking at his paintings,” explains igOr OGOGO. “I think he persuades me to exist outside of this world and to explore memories of past in my life that are still abnormally recognizable, but don’t exist in my present life. I would like my music to contain a power – an energy that listeners sense and not only hear - as I attempt to re-establish the sensations of his art, as well as my understanding of his paintings.”

Active in Los Angeles for the past twenty years, Igor OGOGO is known the most for his work with the ensemble OGOGO, and a number of its past musicians that includes saxophonist/flutist Ira Schulman, trombonist Rodney Oakes, bassist Daren Burns, and vocalist Kyoto Wajima.

As a composer, he has receive awards from the ASCAP and nomination of the Los Angeles Music Award for his composition Bach from Solo View album. His discography features more than 40 albums.

“OGOGO is IgOr Grigoriev, a Moscow born musician with a wonderful sense of art, humor, and all things avant garde and decadent,” stated Batcheeba&Gird09 in a 2009 review of OGOGO Linden album, “you have to be open to the experimental (with emphasis on mental) to be able to enjoy the ride his guitars take you on.” IMPROVIJAZZATION Nation’s Rotcod Zzaj writes, “if you can't "feel" this, buy your burial plot now, as yer' dead already!” Sea Of Tranquility’s Michael Popke declares, “You’ve got some serious eclectic music that will either wake you up or make you want to hit somebody.”