Piece 'No Darkness Suite' is similar to a fantastic nocturne, but it sounds light and positive. It's hard to find a video for such music, so I got a film that I shot in 2022 during the Kyiv blackout - I just went out into the street, which was in complete darkness, you don't see that often.  For the first time in my practice, I used the Ukrainian national instrument with 64 strings - the bandura. Why bandura? Because I have it (my son is learning to play on it) and I've been eyeing it for a long time.   I hope you will not fall asleep and listen to the end.  Дякую! Thanks! 

  The magic power of numbers - today is 12 / 02 / 2021 and I published two new pieces called Halfsteps 21 and 22. As always they are fully improvised. HS21 HS22  

Yes, "Halfsteps 3" is online! What I pursue is to make sound closer to the listener, add intimacy, at the same time to make it concerting. As I hear it in my head - space shout of delicate mini technique. Who can tell: why I am followed by wabi-sabi? 

I continue to make halfsteps ) and have posted a new video called Halfsteps 2 [Free Form Jazz Guitar]. It uses the same static footage (the same October crossroad), but now that is the movie with a people crossing street. I know that is amateurish, mobile video is not a Dolby TrueHD , but today that is the plus. Guitar tone is solid and round, melodical line is diffused, sleepy and relaxed.  Compare with the first Halfsteps .

Keep things simple - I tell myself everytime I sit to improvise or produce a new impro track with my guitar. And never was happy. All periods and melodies too complicated for free imagination. At first, I don't like to think beforehand what I want to play and I don't like to keep my playing scheduled. No! I'm the free poet, - I tell to myself. How CAN I be programmed to play Saint Music? I used my Fall autumn photography I shot close to my house. It indeed really describes my feelings and mood - lyrical, nostalgic, Zenish and free. Download 24bit audio: https://tobto.bandcamp.com/track/yuri-pollchenko-191119-free-jazz-guitar YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1QJSuMZM8I

Music has the wonderful property of telling stories without using words. I like that very much, as you can tell about anything you want - including tales of your hidden corners, poetry, which does not know day light. HORIZON is another 'long' 19 min story I recorded after RUZHYNSKA . They own some nostalgy blue minor sense and hold that nice Jazz tone (I like). Video: https://youtu.be/HfFqhNNkBgg Download HQ Audio: https://tobto.bandcamp.com/track/horizon

Splendid mix of unmixables: indie home vid and #freeimprovization into one cohesive talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sqULOTy9zY

I call my new tracks for myself as 'Kyiv' Heat', as temperature here is high today (+32C) - hot air stands still, no motion, but heart is fast and free imrovisation is fluid. TONE I recorded three takes #01140619, #02140619, #03140619 with 125 bpm tempo. The first take has bright  hard clean guitar tone and in third take that sound becomes really jazzy blue and muted. The second take has bright tone start and muted final. WHAT I DO The blues basic is important. I try to speak, be more nuanced. Tell short phrases, try don't think in chords, just feel. Every note should be preciously cut, to has start, development and story. I just think sax and trumpet players has more fine performance as they play by lips and breath, but guitarists use fingers, which are not very sensitive like lips. Used backing track generated before 01100619-125bpm.  #01140619 https://youtu.be/0Ow2IM7d_N8 #02140619 https://youtu.be/vqIqaoT7_TM #03140619 https://youtu.be/Vb3RVdAz16c ...

Two tracks #02090519 and #03090519, a second and third takes, got published on YouTube. As a rule I record three takes and choose the best one, but after re-listening I found out, that 2nd and 3d takes are both interesting and worth publishing.  My interests for now are a) developing of my own language of improvisation b) music developing at all.  Second Take    Third Take Backing track  Some notes about the sound. I have decided to go toward headphone acoustical comfort and pleasure. Therefore, some antiphase issues are exist, though it is the big no-no in EDM and mixing in general. I suppose my music will not be so popular on the dance floor, but will be listened a lot on headphones as most people do. And then - Techno Music + Free Jazz is VERY nice combination of "Butter and Bread".  

Electro Techno Jazz? I call that style Electro Techno Jazz or Electro Techno Free Jazz (I love the word Free, you know), but you can call it whatever you like. Personally, my idea is not to open a new style name, but simply enjoy to free improvisated music touched by Techno and Modern Jazz. I would love to add a words Be Bop, Cool Bop or anything sounding pop, but my guitar is too far away from those beautiful streams of XX century Jazz.  I like the concept Bill Evans once told: - Jazz music is intentionally improvised at origin . Music originally played by people who loved and enjoyed that free flow of melody or joy and sadness inside. They didn't know || - V7 concepts and modality. And Miles also tells about 'creation flow' in spontaneous improvisation, that was lost nowadays.  I just touch a water and happy to transmit that touching enjoyment to anybody.  #01150319  That impro is another version of 150319 set. Available for download here:...

For that impovisation I have took a pick Galli Medium o.7mm. Sooth to say, as I play mainly by fingers, my take wasn't brightly fast and especially nice. What I see now - I can use it as a high-speed tool and with combination of chords that would be awesome. 

My next track is a bit sad and dark, but I like to tell stories as they are - Spring just started. I don't want to be the next Montgomery or Metheny. Just myself. They told about yourself incredible stories and they are wonderful. As well Coltrane and Miles. Other times and presidents today.  Moreover, social online revolution, cryptocurrency, Twitter and Instagram - the fluid times! All musicians have the open space to tell its stories instantly. Everyone - is a mini media factory, which produce images, melodies, rhythms and... stories.       My improvisations is a bit slow I feel my impro's are slow in comparison with masters. Can I play faster? Sure. But here is not a stadium. And my compositions just a mini rehearsals before the show.  You don't play evergreens Why I need them? There is army of a good and pefect performers, which play excelently at any speed in any genre. My job is to be yourself. I spent 30+ years to play free improvisated gui...

Another track posted on YT . I like that crispy Tele bluesy chords and at the same time I hate that old fashioned romanticism people love. What is really good is the Future House bass elements. But who doesn't like big bass? That bass keep that crappy sounds fresh. At least I continue experimentation and mix today with yesterday at any level of my stupidity. Another new point is the stereo - now stereo fx's are more deep. 

It seems that is a nice family - Electro House Techno vibe and free jazz guitar. Sometimes I have an impression that sax would be on the pair. Another point - I can't add some trendy bebop line. I don't use any fx-pedal, guitar sound is SX guitar and Logic. The latest mix has deep boomy house kick I like and athmospheric far guitar. Indeed that is a Green warm humbucker on the vacation, which became Tele.