Born from the northern lands, the young Russian composer Konstantin Kokourov releases his first album.

This album mirrors the Siberia from which it sprang and whose rugged landscapes don’t deny the beauty of its horizons. Far from that, though Kokourov’s music expresses the wonders of these isolated countries, it indeed reveals their fantastic and mysterious shadows.

From the dense and somehow epic mass of the orchestra (Voices of Siberia) to the transparency playing of the piano (Whirlwind), Kokourov’s work conveys all the fascinating myths of the Slavonic folklore and impressive and eerie figures (Flaming Sun).

Nourished from metal and classical music, Prokofiev and Rachmaninov, but also Pantera, Satyricon, DragonForce, Jason Becker, to whom the Russian composer pays a tribute with an orchestral arrangement of Air.

Konstantin Kokourov deploys, with a great colour palette, a marvellous universe. Piece after piece, his music builds bridges between two worlds that never seemed so close.