Max Kochetov Quartet - Altered Feelings (2022)

Ukrainian born and Serbian by adoption, saxophonist and composer Max Kochetov has created a 42 minute suite of sublime Jazz that fuses psychedelia, spirituality, bebop, rock, soul and funk into a melange of Latin, Brazilian, Pan-African and Indian influences. Conceived as a suite in eight parts Altered Feelings was recorded in one take in a live studio session with each member of the Quartet (and its two special guest musicians) meeting the challenge, aided by the unique and outstanding acoustics they found in the studio. Each of the eight compositions reflects and represents an altered mood and the whole suite reveals itself as a coherent flow of narrative with the opening and closing themes creating a symmetry and a resolution. 'There is Coltrane and his vertical gaze in this flow, there is the desire to create music strongly linked to the very hard times we are experiencing and an inner escape from the reality that we are all going through; something more nuanced that can be understood and explained through music and it composition.'