Forgiveness Rain Sultanov

• 1 Forgive Me 06:00
• 2 Love Will Change You 04:19
• 3 Sinister Act 02:09
• 4 The Bodies 03:35
• 5 Requiem 04:44
• 6 Unusual Space 03:43
• 7 Liberation from the Evil 02:44
• 8 Soul 00:50
• 9 Ballad of the Universe 02:39
• Total Runtime 30:43

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Wut zerstört. Gerade aktuell können wir ihre Auswirkungen jeden Tag in den Nachrichten beobachten. Und doch ist sie Teil des menschlichen Wesens. Auf seinem neuen Album für Ozella stellt sich Rain Sultanov der Wut. Und hat dafür Musik von geradezu himmlischer Schönheit geschrieben.

Sopransaxophon, Orgel, Cello – diese gewiss nicht alltägliche Besetzung bildet die Basis für neun schwebend-entrückte Kompositionen mit programmatischen Titeln wie “Love will change you” und “Liberation from the Evil”. Damit bildet “Forgiveness” eine Erweiterung der Palette der 2018er Veröffentlichung “Cycle”, auf der ein Duo aus Orgel und Saxophon im Fokus stand.

Doch sei die Besetzung letzten Endes nicht entscheidend, so Sultanov. Was zähle sei, die Musik als Instrument zu nutzen, unsere Wut zu transformieren - und ihr, anderen und auch uns selbst mit Vergebung zu begegnen.

Rain Sultanov, Sopransaxophon
Vladimir Nesterenko, Orgel
Aleksey Miltikh, Cello

Aufgenommen im September 2021 in The Church of the Savior, Azerbaijan
Aufgenommen von Nazim Kerimov, gemischt von Reinhard Buchta
Gemastert von Hans-Jörg Maucksch bei Pauler Acoustics

Rain Sultanov
is leading jazz saxophonist who has made a huge contribution to the development of jazz culture in Azerbaijan. Not many were able to walk such a turbulent and interesting creative path, rich and full of musical events, as Rain Sultanov. He is a person whose work is always of interest to the world's experts of high music. Rain's music carries a lot of sense and leads one to a deep thought.

Rain Sultanov was born on April 29, 1965 in Baku, Azerbaijan. After graduating from a music school as a distance student, specializing in clarinet and surprising his teachers with hard work and natural talent, Rain demonstrated his extraordinary ability for the first time. In 1985, Rain Sultanov was awarded at the Republican clarinetists contest. ​

In 1988, having received an invitation from the master of Azerbaijani vocal arts Rashid Behbudov, he began working at the Azerbaijan Song Theatre. After Behbudov's in 1990 Rain becomes jazz soloist of the ‘Qaya' State Jazz Orchestra. After this period of life can be called Rain Sultanov's emerging professional jazz career. ​

In 1997 he founded the band Syndicate and released his first album ‘Last Moment’. ​

In 2003, Rain Sultanov published a work of many years, his book ‘Anthology of Jazz in Azerbaijan’. The book featured archival materials collected from all over the world, as well as facts and photographs of those who were somehow associated with jazz in Azerbaijan. The book also contains two Cd’s with the music of past years and the compositions of contemporary musicians. It became the first comprehensive reference material on jazz in Azerbaijan, showing the whole process of historical development of jazz in Baku. ​

Along with scientific research and analysis of the development of jazz, Sultanov did not limit himself in musical activity. A year later, Rain Sultanov became the art director and organizer of the festival, which he named the Baku Jazz Festival. Starting that year, the international festival in Baku has been held annually and is the largest jazz event in the country.

He also possesses his own unique style of performance and an everlasting series of new ideas, albums and projects. Beginning in the Soviet time and to this day, Rain Sultanov has been a participant of a large number of concerts and jazz festivals held worldwide.

Rain Sultanov – authoritative jazz musician and leading exponent of different forms of music, with his own style and a plethora of ideas and projects, drawn inexorably to the mysterious world of the future.

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