New, unexpected things are happening in the alternative music scenes around the world as many dislocated musicians collide with fellow artists in the novel contexts where they find themselves. The debut album ‘Mincminc’ by the avantgarde jazz trio Tachube is a product of such a collision, where Ilia Belorukov, an electroacoustic artist and saxophonist from Saint Petersburg and the founder of Intonema label, meets bass player Marko Čurčić and drummer Nemanja Tasić, two established jazz musicians based in Novi Sad, Serbia.

Belorukov is known primarily as an experimental free improviser and noise artist, while Čurčić (The Howlite, Dragon’s Fuel, Power Nap Trio, Echo Pointers) and Tasić (Čičini Čvorci, Petak u Kozmosu, Vukašin Ðelič Group) are from a free jazz and ambient jazz background, as well as psychedelic dub reggae (Dabiška, Dab Kajsije). This combination leads to an improvisational, atmospheric, yet burstling sax-bass-drums trio, where this classic trio setup is augmented with extended techniques on the saxophone, heavy pedal effects on the bass, and experiments on a minimized drumkit. The result is a highly avant-garde, fresh, and vibrant form of free ambient jazz, akin to the musical counterpart of an abstract expressionist painting saturated with bold, hallucinogenic colors.

This release is the third collaboration between Inverted Spectrum Records and PMGJazz.

Ilia Belorukov – alto saxophone, fluteophone
Marko Čurčić – electric bass, effect pedals
Nemanja Tasić – drums, percussion

All music composed, arrangede and performed by Belorukov, Čurčić and Tasić

Recorded on January 21-23, 2025 in Novi Sad.
Mixed by Marko Čurčić (1-5) and Ilia Belorukov (6).
Mastered by Ilia Belorukov.
Recorded on January 21-23, 2025 in Novi Sad.
Mixed by Marko Čurčić (1-5) and Ilia Belorukov (6).
Mastered by Ilia Belorukov
Thanks to Zsolt Polgar.

Published by:
PMGJazz (Skopje, Macedonia).
Executive producers: Vladan Drobicki & Deni Omeragić (info.pmgjazz@gmail.com)
pmgjazz.bandcamp.com
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Published by:
Inverted Spectrum Records (Budapest, Hungary / Ankara, Turkey / Belgrade, Serbia)
Executive producer: Işık Sarıhan (invertedspectrumrecords@gmail.com)
invertedspectrumrecords.bandcamp.com