MetaQuorum - Meld Music Project from the UK

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Established in 2014, MetaQuorum is a ground-breaking new music project by Russian born composer/keyboardist Dmitry Ermakov playing Meld, a fusion of Funk, Prog, Rock, Jazz, Electronica and more.

Website: @ https://metaquorum.uk/music/
FB @ https://www.facebook.com/MetaQuorum/
YouTube @ https://www.youtube.com/c/MetaQuorumUK-new-music-fusion
Twitter @ https://twitter.com/MetaQuorum
Bandcamp@ https://metaquorum.bandcamp.com/
Soundcloud @ https://soundcloud.com/metaquorum

DMITRY ERMAKOV began playing piano at six. At seven, he entered the St. Petersburg State Capella where he majored in classical piano, composition, harmony and conducting, later going on to study sax, piano and improvisation in the Jazz Faculty, Mussorgsky Music College. Throughout the 80’s and early 90’s, Ermakov was active in the Soviet underground scene, gigging and recording with his own punk and fusion bands as well as performing with such legendary artists as avant-garde jazz trumpeter V. Gaivoronsky and blues-rock star Yuri Morozov. Ermakov also composed and recorded soundtracks for Lenfilm cinema studios and the renowned Russian clown troupe Licedei Minus 4 (produced at Studio D2), as well as working as Musical Director at Toxovo Cultural Centre. He emigrated to the UK in 1993 following the collapse of the Soviet Union, where he has recently set up a new funk-prog-elctro-jazz project called MetaQuorum.

Dutch drummer KOOS VAN DER VELDE joined MetaQuorum in November 2014. Like Ermakov, van der Velde began playing at six, and was already drumming with his first metal band, Lunacy, by thirteen. After gigging with several local metal and punk bands for six years, in 1993 van der Velde joined experimental jazz-core band Megakronkel, the Dutch group which opened the way for bands such as Victims Family and NoMeansNo. Renowned for his superfast double kick, van der Velde has been gigging and recording for a variety of bands for the last 25 years, alongside tutoring and running drum clinics both at home and abroad.

FEATURED MUSICIANS

CAROL ERMAKOVA inherited her voice from her mother, who won several singing competitions. Despite being singled out for a select school choir at the age of 11, Ermakova never developed this talent. In 2015, MetaQuorum persuaded her to join the project as a second vocalist, and she has since been described as ‘the voice from fairyland.’

Born in New York, MARKUS ‘BLUESHARP’ BOSSERT began playing the bluesharp at 16 when he struck up a friendship with a street musician who taught him the basics. Since the late 90’s, he’s played with a plethora of bands all over the globe, including The Strings in Kathmandu, Nepal. He is a popular guest in Ermakov’s native land, gigging at several venues in Arkhangelsk, notably the Arkhangelsk Blues and Jazz Festivals organised by Timothey Dorofeev.
Now living in Switzerland, Bossert joined the Basel-based R Major Power Blues band in 2013, and is a regular feature at jam sessions in the city, often joining bands as a guest player. In recent months he has made a couple of studio recordings.

St. Petersburg-born VIKTOR MIKHEYEV joined his first band at 17 and is still playing bass today.
Flying in the face of persistent Soviet state control, throughout the late 80’s and early 90’s Mikheyev played in several underground bands, as well as joining Ermakov in punk rock band Panika, avant-garde jazz rock fusion outfit FoxBox and the eight piece group Room 118. Mikheyev has recorded numerous songs and albums, both as a soloist and for the many groups with whom he has played including his own music project The CyBear.
In 1982 Mikheyev embarked on a long-standing collaboration with Lenfilm Studios as screen-writer, actor and deputy director. He currently lives in Bulgaria where he is active in the music and cinema scene.

DISCOGRAPHY:
MetaQuorum released a debut album Midnight Sun through Symphonic Dist, US: http://www.symphonicms.com in 2015 which was remastered and re-released in 2016 via The State 51 Conspiracy, UK: http://state51.com

The same year the project released six singles through the same company: Jonathan Livingston, Migration - our first song, The Piper & The Frog, Cyber Funk, City Folk and Chicken & Egg. Both the album and the singles are available for download and streaming via various digital platforms such as:
iTunes @ https://itunes.apple.com/gb/artist/metaquorum/id951151143
7Digital @ https://www.7digital.com/artist/metaquorum/
GooglePlay @ https://play.google.com/store/music/artist/MetaQuorum?id=Acws7v3iyjzazrmgjfpokuqytxa
Tidal @ https://listen.tidal.com/artist/6360894/discography
as well as The State 51 Conspiracy's own Greed bag shop service @ https://metaquorum.greedbag.com/
Bandcamp @ https://metaquorum.bandcamp.com/
and Soundcloud @ https://soundcloud.com/metaquorum

SECOND ALBUM - Witchcraft Jazz
Everyone at MetaQuorum has been working very hard all through 2016-2017 and so we have now completed recording, producing, mixing and mastering our second 12-track album WITCHCRAFT JAZZ which is currently being prepared for release in the second half of February 2017 on vinyl as a double LP as well as a digital download/streaming. We will be starting PRE-ORDER in early January 2018 so stay tuned on this page or follow us on other social media listed at the top of this post!!