Release Date: 08 April 2022
Label: Double Moon Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 608917139921
Genres: Jazz Contemporary
Description
The debut album of the Ukrainian pianist Vitalii Kyianytsia. With seven of his own compositions, the pianist composed the lion's share of the repertoire, drummer Mathias Ruppnig contributed the fast-paced "Stranger Than Fiction" and the number with the mysterious title "SOM & DID" comes from bassist Johannes Fink.
The balance between freedom and structure is kept in equilibrium brilliantly in this trio, and the pieces that Kyianytsia composed for his band – during the second lockdown he had a lot of time and consequently sometimes two pieces were composed on one day – impress with their harmonic sophistication and their opulent melodies. At the end, the trio plays a virtuoso "Spring Sprint", which leaves you almost breathless.
The only composition by someone else on the album is one of the famous "Gnossiennes" from the pen of the French composer Erik Satie. "Satie is one of my favorite composers," Kyianytsia confessed. "This piece is very well known, but that wasn't the only reason I wanted to work with it. I chose a 7/8 bar, but the original piece has a rather unconventional structure. I wanted to push the rhythmic structure to its limits, and there is even an improvised part in the middle."
Tracklisting
Clemens Gottwald
Joe Krieg Quartet
Uassyn
Vein
BuJazzO
Marcus Klossek Electric Trio
Vitalii Kyianytsia Trio
Mathieu Clement
Nigel Price Organ Trio
Conrad Herwig
Norma Winstone & Kit Downes
Oded Tzur
Su Rossy Girod, Nat Su, Jorge Rossy
Jonathan Salvi Arugula Sextet
Bob Baldwin
Steven Nichols
