The new release by Andrei Poliakov is dedicated to the city of Paris – the city of love, romance, adventures, and fun.

This instrumental work is called “La Promenade in Paris in the Sunshine”: it builds its mood and color on the previously released solo piano piece called “La Promenade in Paris in the Moonlight”. It is featuring an array of various live instruments, depicting a bright and sunny vibe of the city: romantic and frivolous, yet dynamic and playful at the same time.

The music relates to Andrei’s personal story, when he was stranded in Paris with his friend with no money to spare for a couple of days. They discovered this city from its inner side, typically hidden from a tourist; experienced many adventures and met lots of great people; and then eventually had to come to la Place de Pompidou and play a guitar and a clarinet to make some money to get to the airport.

The new release “La Promenade in Paris” is continuing to form the live “Moonlight & Sunshine” album, following the previous releases of 2020: “Declaration of Love” and “Lullaby”.

The “Moonlight & Sunshine” album has an uncommon approach for the modern classics genre: every next release features 2 different versions of one motive, coming to life as a piano solo piece, interpreting a narrative in the moonlight, and as a fully arranged piece, revealing the same story under the sunshine.

The album has been evolving live on the major streaming platforms as a playlist (Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube and others), thereby gradually forming the full album as new pairs of tracks are released.

The artworks for the release have been generously provided by Natalia Osenchakova, a very talented artist and musician from Hamburg

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The new release by Andrei Poliakov is dedicated to the city of Paris – the city of love, romance, adventures, and fun.

This instrumental work is called “La Promenade in Paris in the Sunshine”: it builds its mood and color on the previously released solo piano piece called “La Promenade in Paris in the Moonlight”. It is featuring an array of various live instruments, depicting a bright and sunny vibe of the city: romantic and frivolous, yet dynamic and playful at the same time.

The music relates to Andrei’s personal story, when he was stranded in Paris with his friend with no money to spare for a couple of days. They discovered this city from its inner side, typically hidden from a tourist; experienced many adventures and met lots of great people; and then eventually had to come to la Place de Pompidou and play a guitar and a clarinet to make some money to get to the airport.

The new release “La Promenade in Paris” is continuing to form the live “Moonlight & Sunshine” album, following the previous releases of 2020: “Declaration of Love” and “Lullaby”.

The “Moonlight & Sunshine” album has an uncommon approach for the modern classics genre: every next release features 2 different versions of one motive, coming to life as a piano solo piece, interpreting a narrative in the moonlight, and as a fully arranged piece, revealing the same story under the sunshine.

The album has been evolving live on the major streaming platforms as a playlist (Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube and others), thereby gradually forming the full album as new pairs of tracks are released.

The artworks for the release have been generously provided by Natalia Osenchakova, a very talented artist and musician from Hamburg

Andrei Poliakov: telling a story without words

Andrei Poliakov is a professional musician, composer and producer, who received a fundamental classical music education as a pianist and an oboist in Russia, continued with the professional musical career performing with world-renowned orchestras, later diversifying his musical taste and capacity into jazz, rock, and pop genres, performing and recording with various bands and solo.

Since 2012 Andrei has been living in Switzerland, Geneva, engaging into various professional activities both in artistic and business domains.

The foundation of Andrei’s works is a well-educated classical, romantic soundscape, but as soon as the music begins, it starts looking for cross-over opportunities to develop into an exciting house-party, jazz, pop, or electronic music, all these easily transforming to warm classical follow-ups – hence the eclectic style which helps Andrei tell better stories without words.

Andrei treats a musical genre as an additional color for the compositions, like seasoning in food; these colors help him get across the emotions and tell the stories to the listener with better precision and stronger impact:

“I do not feel bound by a genre or a style, and instead I use and abuse the variety of styles to paint a deeper and more colorful, meaningful musical picture. Nevertheless, the Piano is always staying as a centerpiece of my compositions as I believe the richness and diversity of sounds of the “king of music” easily trumps any other instrument I know”.

Andrei Poliakov works with a Dutch sound producer Wouter Kronenberg, who shares the same passion for the fusion New Age music and helps create a sound palette that echoes Andrei’s ideas and brings the essence of the musical message forward.
Andrei’s previous works include albums: “RefleXions” (released in March 2019), “Four Seasons” (released in March 2020), and the current live album “Moonlight & Sunshine”, started on 14.07.2020 with the first 2 singles “Declaration of Love”, and “Lullaby”

Andrei’s devoted fans have been praising these albums for their everchanging mood, variety of rhythms and colors, an unpredictable development of the story, but most of all – for the honesty, sensibility, and empathy which resonated with audience.

His music is taking the listeners away from the mundane routines, boredom, and dullness into the brightness of an imaginative world where love is omnipresent both under the light of Sun and Moon.

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