Founded back in 2003 in Baku Azerbaijan, Orient Xpress is a vibrant music experience, rocking the audiences for already over 8 years.
Orient Xpress is a truly international band with members originating from Azerbaijan, Ireland and Belarus. It has developed a unique music style with a recognisable sound, combining the heavy guitars, throbbing athmospheric keyboards, deep bass and
rich melodic vocals.
These are tunes that you start humming to after the very first time you hear them.
Using colors from different music genres as the tool of experimental expression, OXP has a playlist of over 60 originals, featuring also award winning singles, film soundtracks and 2 albums. The band has a lot of concert experience from the clubs,
venues and festivals in Azerbaijan, Russia, Georgia, USA, Turkey, Moldova, Czech Republic, Fiji and many more.
With its stunning stage energy and atmosphere, Orient Xpress has become a recognised and memorable band that is known to give its full power and passion to the music, whether it is performed for a random small club jam session or for a crowd of thousands
at a major music festival. The story of the band begins in early 2003, when Anar Yusufov, Elvin Beybutov and Elvin Bashirov met at a jam session in a Baku jazz club and decided to form an ultimately universal music band.
While working as the host band at a singing competition for the local TV station, they met their new guitarist Mike Altukhov and the band took a step away from their original jazz influences.
With this lineup, OXP began their concert activity, performing covers and some newly written originals in Baku's sport bars and pubs. A few months later the band was joined by guitarist and songwriter Rob Cole.
Anar Yusufov - Keyboards/Vocals
Moley Joe - Bass
Mikhail Pashayev - Drums
Jake Duke - Guitar