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IAN MAKSIN | CD RELEASE TOUR

IAN MAKSIN (CELLO, VOCALS)
Breaking boundaries both musical and geographical, cellist, composer and multilingual vocalist Ian Maksin has created and developed his own unique style by blending elements of different genres in a new way using his cello as the main unifying force. He sings in more than20 languages: Russian, Ukrainian, English, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Yiddish, Ladino (language of the Sephardic Jews of Spain), Turkish, Kurdish, Armenian, Arabic, Latvian, Lithuanian, Belarusian, Mongolian, Buryat, Georgian, Mongolian and Macedonian. Ian is equally brilliant in every genre in its pure form, from classical to jazz and blues, and Latin to Balkan and Middle Eastern music. His passionate interpretations and soulful sound have generated a contagious universal and ever-growing appeal to diverse audiences across the world.

Sempre: A New Dimension, Ian Maksins approach to the cello is expansive, rhythmically and culturally eclectic and truly timeless, taking us on wild journeys through a variety of moods, weather patterns, times of day and seasons.

November 3, 2019 Jonathan Widran, The JW VIBE

The album title, Sempre, opens the album it means always or forever in Italian, and you will immediately understand why Ian is infinitely attracted to the sound of the cello as you listen to his soulful playing on this pieceI have no doubt that this song will be getting MASSIVE amounts of airplay on stations round the globe!

Dick Metcalf, editor, Contemporary Fusion Reviews -October 22, 2019

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