Wacław Zimpel - alto clarinet, bass clarinet, khene
Giridhar Udupa - ghatam
Bharghava Halambi - kanjira
Mysore N. Karthik - violin
K Raja - percussion
Pramath Kiran - tabla, morchang
Saagara 2
INSTANT CLASSIC 059
By Adam Baruch
K Raja - percussion
Pramath Kiran - tabla, morchang
Saagara 2
INSTANT CLASSIC 059
By Adam Baruch
This is the second album by the Jazz-World Fusion ensemble Saagara led by Polish clarinetist/composer Wacław Zimpel and including several traditional Indian musicians. On this album Zimpel again cooperates with the Berlin based producer mooryc, who mixed the album. The album presents eight original compositions, all composed by Zimpel except one which was co-composed by him, mooryc and Sara Kałużna. The album was recorded in India.
This album marks a change of
direction for the ensemble and in contrast to the debut album's traditional
Indian Music orientation this album tries to create an amalgam with more
Western Music involvement. As a result it is overall more Jazz oriented and
certainly much more open to a wider music-loving audience.
Although Zimpel certainly did
not invent the concept of interaction between Indian and European Music, which
has already been attempted by many excellent musicians since the early 1960s,
his approach to the process of amalgamation is in many respects much more
organic, and as a result the music on this album does not sound like an
artificial effort to force two dissimilar musical traditions to coexist, but more
like a new music born in the process.
Zimpel, who has always
displayed an affinity or even an obsession with drone-like repetitive musical
elements, finds a gentle version of these reverberations which are an intrinsic
element of Indian music, and uses them most effectively. His Jazzy solos and
melodic improvisations feel also completely at ease with the rest of the
instruments.
Overall this is a superb
World-Jazz Fusion album, definitely one of the best such endeavors on the
Polish scene in the last few years. It is also one of the best Zimpel's
recordings as a clarinetist in a while. It is a delightful musical experience
from start to finish and has a tendency to keep growing on the listener with
each listening session. Most warmly recommended!
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