Jacek Buhl - drums
MONOTYPE
By Adam Baruch
This is the debut album by Polish Jazz duo consisting of trumpeter Wojciech Jachna (Contemporary Noise Sextet, Sing Sing Penelope) and drummer Jacek Buhl (Syfon, Glabulator). It presents eleven original compositions, all co-composed by the duo members.
The music is beautifully
innovative and embodies a new sub-genre of the thriving Polish Jazz scene,
which combines the tradition of trumpet / drums duos combined and expanded here
with electronic and ambient sound vistas. A somewhat similar approach to music
was also adopted a few years later by the An On Bast / Maciej Fortuna duo,
which shares many sonic similarities with this duo. This music consists of
expanded melodic themes developed by the trumpet and accompanied harmonically
and rhythmically by the ambient electronic background and the drum parts. This
approach seems to offer a wide plane of new possibilities, with are just being
discovered lately.
Such recordings like this one
emphasize the vitality and the constant drive of the young Polish Jazz
musicians to innovate and discover new possibilities, rather than stay on the
beaten track of mainstream Jazz, which is probably the most important
characteristic of the entire scene. Of course Jachna and Buhl already
demonstrated their creativity and pioneering spirit as members of other
ensembles they played with, but their work in this duo is the most impressive
in that respect. Their next album as a duo ("Niedokonczone Ksiazki"),
recoded a year later, brought this wonderful concept to perfection.
Sadly this album is relatively
quite anonymous and known mostly to a small number of Polish Jazz avant garde
fans, which is a pity. It is definitely worth searching for and deserves an
honorable place in any serious Polish Jazz collection, especially for people
following new trends and bold pioneering progress.
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