Thomas Kolarczyk Ensemble 72) - 2018

Thomas Kolarczyk Ensemble (Viktor Wolf, Slawek Pezda, Otto Hirte, Kuba Gudz) -
Halbträume (Jazz Thing: Next Generation, Vol. 72)

Жанр: Modern Creative, Ethnic Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz
Носитель: WEB
Страна-производитель диска (релиза): GER
Год издания: 2018
Издатель (лейбл): Double Moon Records
Номер по каталогу: DMHCR71194
Страна исполнителя (группы): GER/POL
Аудиокодек: FLAC (*.flac)
Тип рипа: tracks
Битрейт аудио: (lossy + lossless)
Продолжительность: 00:48:08
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Треклист:

1. Berlin is Full of Lonely People (06:02)

2. Hava (07:11)

3. Intro (03:35)

4. Berlin Is Full of Happy People (08:46)

5. Mifida (04:26)

6. Açis (04:05)

7. Serane (03:09)

8. Ciemnogród (07:05)

9. Odense (03:45)
Доп. информация:

Recorded in June 8 & 9 2016 at Funkhaus Nalepastr., Berlin.
Mixed at Tonstudio Sonic Impulse.
Mastered at Legato Mastering.
P&C 2018 Challenge Records International
Manufactured in Austria

Об исполнителе (группе)
thomaskolarczyk.wordpress/bio/
In recent years Berlin-based double bass player Thomas Kolarczyk has earned a reputation as a multi-faceted, genre-spanning musician and composer. His musical career started with the classical guitar, moving to playing electric bass with metal, punk and funk bands in his youth, which finally brought him to the double bass.
Until 2015 he studied double bass with Marc Muellbauer and Greg Cohen at the Jazz Institute of the Academy of Music Hanns Eisler and the University of the Arts in Berlin. In 2012, he spent half a year in Krakow, working in the Polish art, dance and improvisation scene. As a busy sideman in jazz bands including Flying Cakes, Abisko Lights, Marc Doffey Quintet, Leleka and the Gaststätte zum Heißen Hirten, he is active in the Berlin jazz scene. Another focus of his musical work lies in his collaborations with musicians from world music. He has played with the Turkish band Roye Ma, the Kurdish singer Sakina, and was a double winner of the Creole competition for world music. He plays both with classical orchestras and in opera projects, as well as in the experimental Berlin rock band The Somnambulist.
The diversity of all these musical influences finds a balance in his compositions and arrangements, some of which appeared on the debut album of his quintet in April 2018 as a part of the prestigious Jazz thing Next Generation CD series. Through his concert career, Thomas Kolarczyk has traveled widely, including trips to Liechtenstein, USA, France, Italy, China, Ukraine, and Russia.
He is also a prizewinner in numerous competitions, including Jugend Musiziert, Jugend Jazzt, Art of Improvisation, HFM Jazz Prize, Young German Jazz Award and Young Munich Jazz Prize.

Об альбоме (сборнике)
challengerecords/products/15163548771510
It also could have been the guitar. At any rate, it was the first instrument to which the Berlin-based bassist Thomas Kolarczyk dedicated himself. But then he discovered his love for the contrabass, studied at Jazz Institut Berlin (Universität der Künste / Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler) and found masters in teachers such as Marc Muellbauer and Greg Cohen who introduced him to the world of deep tones, composition and complex sound design. Curious in many directions from experimental rock to urban jazz and all the way to ethnic and folk music influences, it was not difficult for Kolarczyk to find connection to different groups of musicians. Over the years, he has already won a few prizes from 'Jugend jazzt' (Young people play jazz) to the 'Jungen München Jazzpreis” (Young Munich Jazz Award), at times under his own name and at times as a member of other bands such as the quintet of saxophonist Marc Doffey. His path also repeatedly takes him to Poland, for instance in the shimmering cultural metropolis of Krakow where he works with several improvisation and dance ensembles. In addition, he works with Turkish co-musicians in the Ensemble Roye MA and with the singers Sakina and Hani.
These different sound and style spheres influence his own projects. A song like 'Hava' has its roots in the Oriental sound space, although significantly sublimated, and 'Mifida' is like a greeting from the Balkans rhythmically and in its melodic line in places. On the whole, Kolarczyk’s quintet leaves plenty of room for the combination of sprawling improvisations and motifs that do not deny their origin from folk music. This playing mixture is also continued through richly expressive playing of his partners all the way to free realms, where the transparency of the sound can also be maintained because the band dispenses with a harmony instrument. In addition to Kolarczyk, the band includes Berlin clarinetist Viktor Wolf, Berlin-based alto saxophonist Otto Hirte and tenor saxophonist Slawek Pezda from Krakow. The Polish power-drummer Kuba Gudz keeps the sound structure free for expressiveness in places with immense power.
And that is also at the center of the quintet’s debut CD 'Halbträume” (Half-dreams). Because the Thomas Kolarczyk Ensemble, which also gives itself the subtitle 'Musical initiative for the internationalization of the Occident”, among other things, plays with many spheres of influence, which have developed in jazz over the past decades into unique forms of expression. The power and wildness of the “free jazz” era and the creative finesse of modern jazz cultivated in all its details meet the melodic strands of the Balkans and the Orient, which in turn have developed long since into a metropolitan hybrid as a sound language. When the whole is played with the approach of the Thomas Kolarczyk Ensemble, which joins the individual mosaic pieces equally to a whole, then this is music that actually seems a bit more international than that of the Occident.
//polish-jazz.blogspot/2018/10/thomas-kolarczyk-halbtraume-2018.html
This is the debut album as a leader by Polish, resident in Berlin, Jazz bassist/composer Thomas Kolarczyk, recorded in a quintet setting with clarinetist Viktor Wolf, saxophonist/flautist Otto Hirte, saxophonist Sławomir Pezda and drummer Kuba Gudz. Kolarczyk and Gudz were members of the excellent Tone Raw quartet, which recorded a superb single album back in 2012. The album presents nine compositions, seven of which are originals by Kolarczyk, one is by Gudz and one is an arrangement by Kolarczyk of a traditional tune.
The music is a wonderful modern European Jazz, mostly based on melodic themes, but very open to improvised passages and folkloristic, mostly Middle Eastern and Balkan influences. The quintet's lineup, which features three woodwind instruments and a rhythm section and no harmonic instrument, creates w beautifully transparent sound with each and every note perfectly audible. The music reflects perfectly the European Jazz esthetics, which has grown infinitely beyond the American Jazz tradition over time, preserving the basic convention of improvisation, but expanding the barriers of the musical possibilities and amalgamating European values and World traditions, revitalizing and constantly pushing the idiom further into the unknown.
The individual performances are all stellar and the album is a constant source of amazement and discovery. The unique and daring music making presented herein is way beyond what one can find on 'standard' Jazz recordings, and reflects the specifics of the new, Berlin based Jazz school, which managed in the last decade or so to build a Jazz sub-culture, which is reflected by numerous recordings made by Berlin based musicians, producing definitely some of the most interesting contemporary European Jazz.
The sublime balance between melody and Free Form, straight time and no time, soloing and group improvisation are all present on this album, and add up to an irresistible sonic and intellectual experience, which has but a few equals. As such it is a must have for all modern European Jazz connoisseurs, who are open-minded and embracing enough to face and enjoy the challenge. Overall this is a tremendous debut album, which marks a giant step in the leaders career and hop