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Artist
Alexander Piterskiy
12+ albums
instrumentalbluesrussianelectronicexperimental
about
(You can download AP's album "Praha 8" in high quality on BandCamp (name your price, no minimum)) Suddenly for himself Alexander Piterskiy was born in the summer of 1986 in a place no longer on the map, Leningrad, USSR. (These days it's called Saint-Petersburg, Russia.) By the age of 13 he had gotten the idea that music could be his way of his life. Like many children that age he dreamed of having a guitar and a puppy, but he was getting high marks in physics and math, so his parents gave him only the puppy. Luckily music stores are plentiful in Saint-Petersburg. Visiting them from time to time, Alexander taught himself to play simple melodies on every instrument he could find, though he shied away from trumpets. One day he was caught trying to steal an upright piano from the store. Alexander spent about five hours in the police station before being released because the officer decided he was not clever enough to constitute a serious menace to society. Having demonstrated the extent of his desperation to create music, his parents finally bought him his first bass guitar. It was not long before he acquired an acoustic guitar, harmonica, a bongo, accordion, flute and toy piano by Yamaha. In 2001 Alexander started composing an electronic music. It was funny, primitive and pretentious, but it was the start. In 2008 Alexander graduated from Polytechnic University. He celebrated by buying an American Fender Stratocaster HSS and getting a tattoo of J.S. Bach playing the contr
