Freeeshhh release by super jam band —
@lipelis @markborzer @epiankov @neiredicrem @victor_volkovich_ are playing psychedelic jazz fusion improvisation.
Recorded live in Belgrade. Available everywhere!
(Vinyl is on its way)
Leonid Lipelis - bass;
Dmitrii Steinberg - drums;
Aleksei Siubaev - guitar;
Viktor Volkovich - synth;
Evgenii Piankov - keys;
@sergej.luginin - mastering;
@kanebanner - design.
Released by Incompetence records in partnership with
@estheticjoys
The debut release by Confusion on Incompetence Records documents an exercise in disciplined spontaneity, a jam session where organic interaction is rigorously shaped into form. Recorded live in Belgrade by Dmitrii Steinberg, Aleksei Siubaev, Viktor Volkovich, Evgenii Piankov, and Leonid Lipelis, the material was subsequently dissected and reassembled with a scalpel like precision reminiscent of Teo Macero’s landmark edits for Miles Davis. What emerges is not a loose improvisational document but a suite of cohesive constructed pieces: weightless structures suspended over a hypnotic pulse, steeped in cosmic vibes and soft psychedelia. There is a slo mo insistence to the grooves, a kosmiche drift that folds jazz funk rituals into something both intimate and expansive.
For musicians previously orbiting rare groove, house, indie rock, and modern composition, Confusion expands their explorations into a terrain where genre dissolves into texture and intention. The record’s mesmerizing beauty lies in its restraint, motifs surface, dissolve, and return as if refracted through magnetic tape memory, each fragment locked into place yet breathing with human elasticity. Rather than presenting virtuosity, the quintet channels it into atmosphere, into a patient, glowing continuum that feels less like a jam and more like a carefully mapped inner cosmos, calibrated for deep listening and slow revelation.
