Style
In 1991 Peter Gabriel called the ensemble style "Teremism" by analogy with "communism". In European terminology Terem-Quartet's style is known as "World music".
In the "Creative Infantry" (Tvorchesky Desant) programme the musicians themselves spoke about their style: the instruments they play give wit to any genre that is why the ensemble turned to classical music, to jazz and to folk-rock but the basis lays in Russian culture, national customs and Russian original world-view. Meanwhile Andrey Konstantinov added that they take all the best from both western and eastern cultures.
The name of the ensemble resembles this attitude: "Terem" is a big house which unites musical currents all over the world.
Terem is not only a house. It is a place where everything is fine. When creating the ensemble if we had set our goal to make money we wouldn't have become Terem. We always have had a sublime goal - to create contemporary music on the basis of national one so that it was clear and public. So that it excited us and the audience (Andrey Konstantinov).
Sometimes musicians called their style "Terem" but then the appropriate word was found - "crossover". Andrey Konstantinov explained that this genre implies the combination of different styles in order to express music content in a more interesting way.
Terem-Quartet was invited to various festivals, it participated in jazz, classical, rock and even punk ones.
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