Marcin Bożek - bass guitar
Affair With Art
NASZE NAGRANIA 006
By Adam Baruch
This is the debut album by the Polish bassist/composer Marcin Bożek, recorded solo using electric bass. The album includes just three tracks, the longest of which is almost half an hour in duration. The music is all spontaneously improvised.
Since the day I've heard Barre
Phillips' "Journal Violone" in 1968 (and later on Dave Holland's
"Emerald Tears" almost a decade later) I have learned not to take
anything for granted, especially so solo bass albums, which in some cases
emerged as cornerstones of modern music, Jazz or otherwise. However, there is
always also a possibility that a solo bass album might simply turn out to be a
worthless masturbation.
One must always admire the
boldness of an artistic statement, such as this album. Regardless if one is
able to connect to this music or not, one should at least respect the inner
urge of an artist to express his emotions. After all nobody is forcing anybody
to listen to a particular album after all.
This music suffers from the
same problem that other avant-garde explorations also often suffer from; it is
a total statement completely disregarding the listener, a self-concentrated
satisfaction of an urge rather than an attempt to communicate. Therefore it
remains mostly uncommunicative, and probably unable to make the listener to
enjoy the experience. Notwithstanding however, art is not always meant to be
pleasurable, en contraire, some best examples of artistic expression are
deliberately non pleasurable, in order to shock and subvert.
To put it plainly, this is not
music for everybody, or even better put it is music for very few listeners, who
are able to take the plunge with the artists into the unknown, regardless of
the result. Avant-garde is here to stay, and this is avant-garde at its
boldest. If only because of that, I'm all for it.
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