DEAR LISTENER
I welcome you to my gallery. My name is Max. I am a classical guitar composer, ambient producer and sound artist.
Here you can get acquainted in detail with my work.

Regards best,
Max Ananyev

CLASSICAL GUITAR
"COSMISM" (2024)
The album "Cosmism" is a musical fantasy on the theme of traditional Russian music.

On New Year's Eve I watched a movie - a Soviet fairy tale "Morozko" familiar to me from childhood. This film had a very strong effect on me. It was as if it invited me on a fascinating journey, after which I would finally learn the root of Russian culture. And the path led me through its many manifestations straight to the ideas of cosmism. Along the way, I learned to play the gusli and the mallets - timbres that open the door to a fairy tale.
I think that the root of Russian culture is a space of imagination that goes beyond reality.
This is where the ideas of the cosmist philosophers come from; and the painting that anticipated surrealism; and the first flight into space; and the bold attempt to build socialism; and the absolutely fantastic domes of St. Basil's Cathedral; and much, much more.
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"OBSCURITY" (2024)
OBSCURITY An eleven page musical poem by Max Ananyev and Andrey Belyavskiy.
This is a statement on the life cycle in the tradition of symbolism. Each composition is tied to a particular archetypal image.
Performed and recorded in St. Petersburg on August 30, 2024, at Anikushin's Sculpture Studio.
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"Garden" (2022)
10 pieces for classical and electric guitar.
The garden is an image of the ideal coexistence of man with nature, including his own nature.
Man takes care of nature, and nature pleases man and bears fruit.
The garden is an archetypal image.
Whether we have faith or not, the myth lives in everyone that everything began in the garden.
Guitar Videos
Sheet-Music
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"Clouds over Sleeper" (2021)
14 pieces for classical and electric guitar.
Guitar Videos
"Frontier" (2019)
A creative person often rushes to frontiers. Overcoming territorial boundaries helps to transcend mental boundaries and vice versa.
Exactly 10 years ago, ‪‪on‬‬ ‪March‪ 2, I ‬‬packed a suitcase and moved to St. Petersburg from the Russian Far East. Here I understood and felt a very simple thin: contents different in depth can be seen in the same everyday forms. Everything depends only on the limits of perception, which we establish.
I dedicate these 12 pieces for classical guitar to the streets, water and sky of St. Petersburg.

Format: Digital
Label: Fancymusic (RU)
Guitar Videos
"Metaphor" (2019)
13 pieces for classical guitar solo.
Guitar Videos
Listen on Apple Music!
13 millions streams in Apple Music!
DUETS
"Meeting Time" (2021)
Joint album with Berlin Trumpeter and Ambient Producer Christian Grothe.
9 tracks at the intersection of jazz, academic music and ambient.
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"Immensity" EP (2021)
"immensity"- four free-jazz improvisations with a reference to Russian folklore. The compositions were recorded one autumn evening in St. Petersburg as a result of an almost accidental meeting of three musicians:
Max Ananiev - guitar
Ilya Atamanov - Russian seven-string guitar.
Julia Sayfulmulyukova - vocals
Ilya gravitates towards Russian folk music, I towards atmospheric impressionistic sketches, and therefore the motive of the immense Russian space, which is not obvious, but permeates Russian entire culture, somehow determined itself.
"First Impression" (2022)
"First Impression" - is a collaborative album with China-based handpan artist Vitaliy I.V.A.
7 atmospheric compositions.
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