In May 2004 in a hoarse twilight of Kiev jazz dungeons SOLOMINBAND – appeared – this was the name given to the newly-made band by his ‘old-hand’ leader Victor Solomin. The same year in July a new program “TATARSKY STAN” (“The Tatar Camp”) was presented to the experienced audience, which filled the “44” art-club, and the listeners were really impressed by the richness of timbre colours, scope and virtuosity of composition and breath-taking alternation of jazz, rock and ethno.

Up to the present moment the talented musicians of SOLOMINBAND have made two more programs: “THE RAIN” (instrumental variations on Sting’s music) and “THE BIG JAZZ PROGRAM” which includes world jazz hits and compositions by Victor Solomin and Alexey Bogolyubov.

At one of the concerts of the band a famous jazz-man Alexey Kogan spoke with real youthful ardour about domra as a phenomenon ruining all the theories of jazz and non-jazz instruments. He cleared out that “domra is not a bassoon” and that a real domrist, as known, sings and plays what he sees.

Bowing to this words, there is one more thing to add: it would be good for domrists to be able to hear. At least the way Victor Solomin does.