Dmitry Chetvergov' Bio:

   Dmitry Chetvergov is one of the most famous Russian guitarists. His talent not only as a guitarist, but also as a composer, arranger and sound-engineer has brought numerous collaborations with Russian top pop and rock musicians Recently Dmitry has almost totally dedicated himself to his solo work and presents at Artists Pro Artists his new solo album 'From Flower To Flower'.
   Chetvergov has been representing the Russian musical scene for more than 20 years. Having completed his formal education majoring in guitar, Chetvergov earned recognition while playng in the Russian legendary funk/jazz-rock band Quadro from 1984 to 1987. Working with Quadro Dmitry was recognized as one of the best Russian guitarists, a true virtuoso and a master of improvisation.
   In 1995 Chetvergov was nominated as the best guitarist by the Russian newspaper 'Moskovsky Komsomolets' (MK), and is constantly keeping leading position in electric guitar nomination of the Russian magazine Music Box.
   Chetvergov has worked as a session guitarist with virtually all the top Russian musicians. From 1991 till 1997 he was along with Nikolay Noskov (ex-'Gorky Park') a guitarist and co-producer of the project 'Nikolay', and from 2000 to 2004 he worked as a guitarist with a Russian pop-star Alsou.
    His first solo album Svobodny Polet (Free Flight) released in 1997 was the real revelation. In this album Chetvergov strikes the listener with his superb guitar technique and the profundity of thought. Dmitry has always been an innovator pushing music towards profress. In his recordings and live performances he uses the most advanced equipment in order to achieve unique sound. In his recordings, he mixes his guitar with the samples to create his extraordinary sound, and he also manages to reach the same effect playing live. His live shows are a fairy of virtuosity and fantasy.
   In 2005 Dmitry Chetvergov was invited to join a Russian-American project "Made In Moscow" together with Glenn Hughes and Joe Lynn Turner. The project featured Russian top musicians. Chetvergov participated in a few tracks and played at a great show-presentation of the album in Moscow in the summer of 2005.
   Chetvergov is also famous for his guitar clinics, during which he reveals not only the secrets of his guitar technique but also his philosophy and approach to music performace.
   In his new album 'From Flower To Flower', Dmitry Chetvergov shows himself not only as a guitarist, but also as a sound-engineer and producer, and also plays many of the bass parts and all the keyboards. In this album, Chetvergov combined many deversed music styles, from traditional to the most progressive. It can be roughly characterized as a mixture of instrumental music with elements of World Music. Some tracks also feature Russian vocalists Nikolay Arutyunov and Alsou.

Discography
Free Flight (1997)

1. Sarcasm
2. Forward
3. In Trail
4. Tale
5. Three Graces
6. Eastern Wind
7. Flirt
8. Suffering for Am
9. By Candlelight
10. Free Flight
11. Coda

DCh comments:
   "I chose the right stuff to play, because, you know, I had loads of it. I like the stuff that sounds fresh. I listen to many world famous guitar players and look for something new in their way of thinking and playing, besides the endless race of the speed and technique. There's always some kind of competition, but you can't really see something live, fresh or different in their music. It gets boring listening to the same old stuff played by different musicians, so the only exciting thing left for you is to listen how it all is produced and mixed. However, I think, my album has come out pretty good when it comes to the way of thinking. The thought, the idea of the album, some guitar improvisations sound pretty fresh and original to me. It's all here and now."

Chetverg Arutyunova (Arutyunov's Thursday)

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1. Lick It Up
(Paul Stanley, Vinnie Vincent)
2. Out Of The Tiles
(Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Bonham)
3. Life's A Gas
(Marc Bolan)
4. Groover
(Marc Bolan)
5. Can't Get It Out Of My Head
(Jeff Lynne)
6. Shock Me
(Ace Frehley)
7. Rockaria!
(Jeff Lynne)
8. Long As I Can See The Light
(John Fogerty)
9. Ramble Tamble
(John Fogerty)
10. Immigrant Song
(Jimmy Page, Robert Plant)
11. Thank You
(Jimmy Page, Robert Plant)
12. Salvation
(Elton John, Bernie Taupin)
13. Gudbuy T'Jane
(Jimmy Lea, Noddy Holder)
14. Rebel Rouser
(Brian Conolly, Andy Scott, Steve Priest, Mick Tucker)
15. Take It Off
(Paul Stenley, Bob Erzin, Roberts)
16. Rock And Roll
(Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Bonham, John Paul Jones)

Nickolay Arutynov comments:
   'I started listening to rock music generally at the age of 8. So when I was in school I was already trying to play rock music in a school band. In a few years I found out that the genre of the bands I loved most of all is actually called blues rock. So, I strated off with my blues thing at the age of 18. But I'm very much into rock music too, I like any kind of stuff made in UK and the US through the 60s and 70s. I guess there's nothing better invented ever since, right? That is why I have always been eager to make this kind of music.
   Since 1995 I started playing gigs for a very cool guy named Slava Gorsky. He managed to line up lots of great musicians, including my buddy Dmitry Chetvergov. We played loads of classic rock, and I was very much into it. I was looking for a chance to do it more often, so I relised very soon that I could make a side project along with my main band "Blues League".
   Summer 1997 I suggested Dmitry that we made up a new project, so in started off, in September. The line-up we put up together played cover versions of classic rock songs, with our own arrangements, of course. Mainly it was 70s' hard rock stuff, but in fact we didnt have any time or genre limits. Besides we started each gig with a few instrumental things written by Dmitry Chetvergov, and there were also a few acoustic song Dmitry and I included in the middle of the set.
   The first gig of the line-up was pretty much significant. The Russia T-Rex fan club invited us to play at the club's party dedicated to Marc Bolan's 50th birthday. We had been rehearsing 10 T-Rex songs for a month before our first ever gig, that happened on Sep.31th 1997. By the way, in a year or so we did the same thing for a Kiss fan club.
   In 1997 and '98 the line up included 7 musicians, and, because there were 3 guys from my Blues League and there were also back vocals, Chetverg Arutyunova sounded pretty much like my band. It didn't fit any of my plans. So, in 1999 there were only 5 of us left in the project. I have great memories of those 3 years when the band existed. Both us and and the audience was so much involved with the atmosphere of the music that we're all into. I still listen to it and I want to play it. Chetverg Arutyunova may never get back together, but I'll try to make something similar.'

Made In Moscow љfeaturing Glenn Hughes and Joe Lynn Turner (2005)

1. Arianna
2. Let the Fire Rage
3. Warrior of the World
4. Forgive Her
5. On Your Marks
6. I'm Alive
7. Old Friend
8. Circus Life
9. The Alchemist

   Back in 2005 the Moscow vice-mayor Michael Men, after years of being a die-hard Deep Purple fan, decided to remake his own album he had recorded back in 1980s with his band 'Most' (Bridge).
    For a project of such big scale he surely needed some big names involved. So, he ended up with two, dare we say, rock legends, Glenn Hughes and Joe Lynn Turner (both been in Deep Purple), who at the moment were involved in a joint line-up called "Hughes Turner Project".
   While working on the album, all the lyrics, the vocal lines and arrangements were totally changed by the guest rock masters, all the rest instrumental arrangemets were re-made by a supergroup of the best musicains in Russia Michael Men lined up in his studio.
   One of the best guitarists in Russia & CIS, Dmitry Chetvergov appeared on the album as a guest musician. He took a major part in the process of recording and re-arranging the songs written by Michael Men.
    The project expressed itself in a big scale private party that took place on June 23rd 2005 in a very popular Apelsin club of Moscow. While the guests were drinking up and chilling, the russian gang of the musicians played an impressive set with Joe Lynn Turner alongside, who had been exclusively invited to take part in the presentation. Dmitry Chetvergov totally rocked the socks even off the most official and formal public invited to the great glamorous private event. The great success of the album just added to the incredible fame of the great guitarist Dmitry Chetvergov and gave him a great experience of working with two of his music idols.

'From Flower To Flower" (2005)

   'Everything traditionally regarded as signs of high composing technique: precise form perception, inventive diverse texture, freshness, non-banality of harmonies and metrorhythm  - all these factors are available in Chetvergov's compositions. But it is still most important that this is guitar music with its "severe" laws: either there is a driving melodical image connecting a compassionate listener with the musician's passionate creativity, or it is not there. Such bright images are available almost in all Chetvergov's compositions, so it is real music in all its manifestations."
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Alexei Rybnikov

   "This album is a unique phenomenon of our time, because there is no traditional vocal singing that has become an integral part of our culture. And what's most important, the whole material is based not only on skillful performance, but also on serious composing work and wonderful arrangements made by the project author. It is especially worth noting that Chetvergov used his means of expression most economically and laconically, without overburdening music canvas, and at the same time some compositions sound quite fundamental. As a whole the album sounds quite fresh and original, and one can say with confidence that it will make a decent contribution to music culture."
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Alexei Kozlov

   'Music is a great enigma. A mystery. And the more you know about it, the less you are able to define it."
But this mystery lures again one of the best musicians of our country, Dmitry Chetvergov, calling him to try once again to give it his definition. That is what the guitarist does in his last solo album. It seems impossible to say something new in the neoclassical guitar genre which has revealed all its secrets: from super-high-speed playing of compositions to advanced effects and technologies application. However, this record brilliantly proves that it is quite possible. In Dmitry's opinion, a beautiful melody is now stepping out to the foreground, with its original harmonious structures and, of course, non-trivial approach to arrangement. Today it seems to be the most successful way to the listener's heart, judging by the positive mood resulting from listening to this work. For the first, for the second, and for the tenth time. Because it really contains harmony properly built by the musician and communicated to the listener in a talented way.
 'Harmony - that's what happiness means. And it is so good when she comes putting everything in its place."

People PRO Purple (2006)

1. Highway Star
2. Woman form Tokyo
3. Lazy
4. Misteated
5. When a blind man cries
6. Stormbringer
7. Strange kind of woman
8. You keep on movin'
9. Burn
10. Sail Away
11. Demon's Eye
12. Smoke on the water
13. Soldier of fortune

   In 2006 Dmitry Chetvergov took part in the making of the first ever official Russian tribute to the legendary band Deep Purple. In collaboration with an lng time friend, one of the best blues vocalists in Russia, Nickolay Arutyunov, Dmitry recorded a cover version of the song Highway Star.