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Roman Miroshnichenko. Rush Hour. Live at World Of Guitar '18

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Roman Miroshnichenko and his band plays Rush Hour tune from his latest Award-winning album Ascension at World Of Guitar festival 2018. 

Feat.: Val Chernook - drums, Oleg Kanakov - bass 

Roman Miroshnichenko is celebrating 25 years of music! Being the 2009 - 2016 Independent Music Awards 4-times winner and the USA Songwriting Competition First Prize Winner, Roman is the Russia’s most prominent and celebrated guitarist. His name is featuring on «The Great Jazz Guitarists» encyclopedia by Hal Leonard Books, the most comprehensive and competent guide to jazz guitarists ever published (from Django Reinhardt to John Mclaughlin and beyond). During his career he has worked with such musicians as Steve Vai, Al Di Meola, Marco Mendoza, Heather Headley, Djivan Gasparyan, Dominique Di Piazza, to name a few. For a few years, he played in a duo with ‘godfather of fusion’ Larry Coryell. Since 2016 Roman Miroshnichenko is an international projects director of the annual «World Of Guitar» festival which is one of the biggest and prestigious guitar festivals in Europe. In 2017 Miroshnichenko joined the judging panel of the 16th annual Independent Music Awards (IMA) program among with Tom Waits, Slayer, Sepultura and others. Roman celebrates his creative life jubilee by releasing new album «Ascension». 

The new album was released in October, 2017 and entitled Roman, was recorded with his long time band, which includes Val Chernook on drums and Oleg Kanakov on bass. He is also joined by special guests: Grammy-winning violinist Charlie Bisharat, famous Argentinian pianist Mario Parmisano, renown Floridian musicians Luis Alicea (drums) and Aron Ferre (keyboards), Danish virtuoso Henrik Andersen and world class percussionist Gumbi Ortiz, who has played with Al Di Meola for 30 years. Two album’s songs Roman dedicated to his close friends and collaborators - Larry Coryell and Mario Olivares. 

Al Di Meola, the legendary guitarist, commented on the release: «Roman's adventurous complex playing and songs take the listener on a tour de force journey. Carrying on with a great tradition of fusion well done!» 

The album included an «electric» version of Roman's Award-winning song Alien's Dream, which was written for the latest project World Of Guitar Trio and is dedicated to Steve Vai, who very kindly responded to the new release: «Congratulations on your record. And thanks so much for the touching Alien’s Dream. It’s quite beautiful! I like music that has some rich changes and cool melody!» Congrats on 25 years of making music for the world to enjoy! 

Reviews: "Russian guitar wizard Roman Miroshnichenko returns with a new fiery album. Wizard is not overused here as his technique can be matched with the very best in the world. My first impression was that he sounds quite a bit like Al Dimeola with a more metal influence in the mix. And of course one of the first things you can read about Roman is how he has worked with both Al Dimeola and Steve Vai, which just about explains it. I may have known that, as this is not the first time I have heard his amazing playing. The one thing that strikes me every time I hear him is that he is a bit easier to emotionally connect to than many of the guitar wizards like Malmstein and yes, even Al Di Meola. In part that may be due to his creative mix of acoustic and electric passages as well as a variety of pace and power. Good dynamics and fantastic playing make this a fine album." © David Hintz, FolkWorld #64 11/2017 

Album's awards: 
16th Annual The Independent Music Awards. Best Instrumental Album Nominee. 
Finalist of the 22nd Annual USA Songwriting Competition. 2017 Finalist of the UK Songwriting Contest 2017. 

Buy the album: https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/romanmiroshnichenko4

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