I’ve been tied by a longstanding friendship and creative partnership with a lot of the project’s participants – Dmitry Diachkov, Paul Ekholm and Dmitry Stoukalov. I find special advantages in the modern opportunities enabling musicians from different corners of the world to unite and communicate through the greatest universal language of music. I would like to extend my sincere gratitude to Dmitry Diachkov, for giving me the opportunity to join the project, creative freedom and friendship. Thank you to all who participated in the recording sessions with the Katinhouse band for commitment to music and pure creativity.

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The concept came up during the pandemic and isolation period, when Dmitry Dyatchkov, a longtime friend of mine let me listen to a tune he had just written to a Robert Burns’ piece of poetry. Thus the first dong of the album came into existence. Then, other compositions began to emerge one by one. Our creative team was parted by space and time but it was a challenging experience – great guys scattered by life across various countries and continents were jointly working on music material.
As fate would have it, a beautiful musician Dmitry Stukalov, who played bass on some compositions, passed away in course of the recording sessions. We have dedicated the song titled “If this be love” to his blessed memory!
Song «Green Leaves” is dedicated to my wife Irina. She loved green leaves very much!

In the summer of 2020 Paul Ekgolm, a friend of mine heard one of my tunes and suggested to look for a suitable piece of Robert Burns’ poetry. “Auld lang syne” rewritten by R. Burns went with it quite well. This experience inspired me to study the poetry of the past centuries and the songs started to emerge by themselves. That’s how eleven tracks for the album “Entrance A” were recorded. It also includes three works by Ivan Timoshenko – “The Sign”, “Showtime”. I commend my sister Katherine for beautiful vocal, my friends – Ivan Timoshenko, Paul Ekgolm and Anton Basov for creative collaboration resulted in establishment of a band and all those participated in the recording sessions!