Baron Von Babyface

The original line-up of Black Sea Gentlemen featured Baron von Babyface on Contrabass. After having made the JOURNEY THROUGH THE LAND OF SHADOWS, the Baron had recorded his departure. From THE HISTORY OF MIKELANGELO AND THE BLACK SEA GENTLEMEN: Whilst fleeing the purges of the Tartars across the Russian steppes, the young Mikelangelo was separated from his family. It happened this way…during a perilous night crossing of the upper Dnieper River, Mikelangelo was washed overboard by the turbulent flow. His family could not but continue their flight into the west, in the certain knowledge that Mikelangelo had drowned. Miraculously, Mikelangelo survived the conflagration, dreaming he had been saved by a beautiful mermaid, and was washed up hundreds of miles down river on the shores of the Black Sea. There, still unconscious, he was found by Carpathian monks who took him to their isolated monastery and slowly nursed him back to health. After a year at the monastery, Mikelangelo grew restless and set off in search of his family. In the city of Odessa he met the handsome and dissolute Baron, broken hearted genius of the Kontrabass. They immediately formed a strong friendship and Mikelangelo affectionately named the Baron ‘Babyface’ in memory of his youngest brother ‘little Ivan’.