Release Date: 06 April 2018
Label: Double Moon Records
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 608917119428
Genres: Jazz Contemporary
Description
'Halbträume' (Half-dreams) is the debut CD from the Thomas Kolarczyk Ensemble.
In recent years Berlin-based double bass player Thomas Kolarczyk has earned a reputation as a multi-faceted, genre-spanning musician and composer. In addition to Kolarczyk, the band includes Berlin clarinetist Viktor Wolf, Berlin-based alto saxophonist Otto Shepherd and tenor saxophonist Slawek Pezda from Krakow. The Polish power-drummer Cuba Gudz keeps the sound structure free for expressiveness in places with immense power.
The ensemble, who gives itself the subtitle "Musical initiative for the internationalization of the Occident", 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 seems a bit more international than that of the Occident.
Tracklisting
Clemens Gottwald
Joe Krieg Quartet
Uassyn
Vein
BuJazzO
Marcus Klossek Electric Trio
Vitalii Kyianytsia Trio
Mathieu Clement
Norma Winstone & Kit Downes
Oded Tzur
Su Rossy Girod, Nat Su, Jorge Rossy
Jonathan Salvi Arugula Sextet
Bob Baldwin
Steven Nichols
Orlando le Fleming
Stan Getz
