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

That is an usual slo mo film about jazz cats, that drink water. You know some, which live close to you. My intention was to shot them as live as possible. Almost monochrome, that modern free jazz music film raises up those classic Noir Films to memory full of nostalgie, suspense and... hidden drama. We see a lonely cat, which drinks water during all film. So simple. No more actors, just one monotone scene screened closely to the acting personage. And guitar improvisation behind. Be the first to watch that jazzy lazy cat footage. Link : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpNwETh-8HQ 

a bit of history My first guitar (black electric) was made by my father when I was 9. I asked him very much to make guitar, as those on photos, and he ordered a wooden body in car garage of his friend and they painted it by beautiful black car lacquer. My second guitar (acoustic) I bought when I was 12. During my studying at Polytechnic Institute (5 years, mechanical engineer), I played with my Indie Rock band and in the parallel was graduated after evening musical school on Jazz guitar, where learned some theory and stuf . After finishing Institute ( Sykorsky University now) I started my new band, and we played free improvisation music (not jazz) in Art galleries and had couple of Radio shows nationwide. That happened in Kiev, USSR in 90's . Now I live in Kyiv, Ukraine. The same place. the verse I would like to play guitar without strings creating sound under my fingers full of meaning and free as a silence at lovers talk After finishing mu...