Yuri Naumov defines his music as ‘The Transcendental Blues’, and here you can resonate with every word. Yuri is a world-class guitarist whose music transcends not only the architectural definition of any blues but any conservative genre for this matter. Having absorbed from psychedelia and the art-rock, it takes you out of the realm of the ordinary perception with its deeply haunting complexity and a powerful philosophical component.
Yuri is a nomad: he has lived in New York for over 30 years while traveling all year round. All this time, stories about him and his unique technique of playing his one of a kind 9-string guitar are passed on as a secret knowledge. There are a few recordings on YouTube, and the albums do not reflect at all what happens at concerts. And here’s what happens: a man in black comes out. Picks up the guitar. And in two hours he absolutely blows your mind to the point that you then walk around and sing and rave about these melodies, these images and thoughts, living them over and over, again and again.
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“Escapist” - this is the title of the new studio album by blues guitarist Yuri Naumov – the most large-scale project undertaken by the legendary musician in 35 years of active composition. Regardless of whether you are familiar with Naumov’s work or have come for the first time, an incredible …
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Guitar Stories is an album by Yuri Naumov, first released in the Netherlands in 2000. It was released in Russia and the United States in 2001, and was reissued by the Vyrgorod label in 2011. With the exception of the song “To the Petersburg Angel”, it consists of instrumental …
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Russian Blues Live is a compilation album from the blues guitarist Yuri Naumov. Regardless of whether you are familiar with Naumov’s work or have come for the first time, an incredible journey awaits you – into a dimension where baroque and rock are intertwined, where the pain of lines is …
Read MoreThere are many artists who enrich one’s world, please the senses, evoke aesthetic admiration or even humble the perceiver with mastery of their art form.
Yuri Naumov, a unique Transcendental Blues composer and a virtuoso nine-string guitar instrumentalist, surely does all that, but he aims for much more - to touch, even play on, the most intimate emotional strings of the psyche, which only a select few of his colleagues may touch. He has surely reached his aims, along with cult status, in his native Russia, a nation famous for superb music and poetry. While the two have been practiced to perfection separately, in Russian cultural space they rarely coexist on equal footing within the same art form. Still, Yuri has become a legend for merging them with uncompromising quality, while achieving hitherto unparalleled freedom of emotional spiritual expression.