Occultation Recordings – LOGOS7E4073
Thursday, May 14, 2026
Jakov Jakoulov - 2004 - Within Four Walls
Self Released – None
Jakov Jakoulov was born in Moscow in 1958. He studied piano and composition at the Moscow Conservatory and the Gnesin Musical Academy. He composed music for over 20 theatrical productions for the leading Russian National Artistic Theater in Moscow, for State Television of the USSR, for the Swedish Theater "Lilla", the Moscow Film Company and numerous others. He served as pianist for the Moscow State Philharmonic and conducted the Choir of Russian Orthodox monks in a monastery near Moscow.
He left the Soviet Union in 1987, working initially in Munich and then elsewhere in Europe. In 1990 he moved to the United States where he completed a doctorate in composition at Boston University under the tutelage of Lukas Foss and Theodore Antoniou. He has been based in Boston since then, working as composer, organist and pianist. He was nominated for the 1993 award in music composition by the American Academy of Arts and Letters and in 1996 was elected to the Pi Kappa Lambda Chapter of the National Music Center in Boston. In 1999 and 2000 he received the Annual Award of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. He is a member of the faculty of the Community Music Center of Boston. His reputation is international with commissions and performances of his works in Mexico, Finland, Israel, Germany, Sweden, Russia, Armenia and Scotland as well as the United States.
His own heritage incorporates Russian, Armenian, European and Gypsy traditions and lends to his music a complex richness and depth of feeling. He reaches into Classical, Jewish, Christian and Orthodox music for his compositions such as "Eclogue, Epitaph and Hymn." This piece, also named Viola Concerto No. 2 was performed at Ozawa Hall in July 2003 with viola soloist, Michael Zaretsky as part of the Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music.
Present Electric - 2023 - ST
Paisley Shirt Records – PSR-62
In the summer of 2011, my partner and I were walking past a garage sale on her street. We saw this striking painting: a portrait of a man in a snow covered landscape. The houses look like the Swedish farmhouses I grew up seeing, flowers pinned to his coat, his head is shaped and wrinkled in layers like an onion. Simple lines, primary colors, and those glaring eyes.
The songs on Present Electric are scratchy, somewhat primitive, low fidelity recordings. They range from cassette 4-track recordings, voice memos, field recordings, and percussion-first songwriting. The “onion-head man” painting seems to pair well with the album. Both are naive in their own ways.
credits
released July 7, 2023
All music: K Linn
Recorded 2021-2022
Mastered by Mikey Young in 2022
Re-edited by K Linn in 2023
"Onion Head Man" painting purchased from garage sale on Laurent St, Santa Cruz in 2011. Possible artist name "RiMajer"
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