Rubakov trio

Improvisation and freewheeling poetic compositions. The music of the Rubakov Trio is inspired by the work of the Soviet artist Alessandro Rubakov (Messina 1912 – Jrkoetsk 1981), Eric Dolphy, Leo Wadada, and artist Maria Basile. Hansko has been playing with Bas for decades in the phenomenal band Plan Kruutntoone.

Ruggero di Luisi (Palermo/amsterdam) drums and fruleta.
Hansko Visser (bonn/groningen) otwin guitar and rattles
Bas Alblas (haarlem/den andel) double bass
lyrics by Hansko, Wadada, Luetzi and Brodsky

ticktes: sliding scale

Aca Abujevic Rubakov (Giampilieri 1912- near Irkutsk 1981?) was the fruit of love
of an afro-russian sailor and the priests daughter in a sicilian village…
they met in the aftermath of the 1911 earth quake in Messina, where
the russian fleet tried to help out, Maria was a voluntary nurse, and the little Allessandro (aca) was conceived.
When he was born, his father had been re-allocated to Russia already..
Turning 17 he left the warmth of his Sicilian mothers home
to find traces of his father and his background. during his time in the soviet union
studied a few years at a leningrad art collective, but then
dissapeared for decennia.
it was known only much later (in the end of the eighties), that he
spent time with the Tengeri people near Irkutsk, where his father Abu was said
to have died in a Stalin camp in the thirties, and where Aca enventually fell ill.
He was taken care of by the local Shaman and spent his last year painting
on literally everything he could find.
Hansko met his work the first time he played in Vilnius with I Zimbra visiting a
semi legal art exhibition ( 1988!) where among the work of contemporay lithuanian artists, some of the
found objects of A A Rubakov where shown.
Later, while at work in Messina we found more drawings and dug op fragments of the story of his life.
With the help of people in Petersburg and Dusanbe (!) later paintings were retrieved.
To us , the most intrigueing element of the work is the search of an artist for his (black) roots, mixed with the siberian
shamanistic influences of his last dwelling place.
We try to combine it with our search for a musical background where we try to belong, to feel at home.