Bartlomiej Brat Oles - drums
with
Theo Jorgensmann - clarinet
FENOMMEDIA 006
By Adam Baruch
This is the third album by Polish Improvised Music heroes, brothers Marcin Oles (bass) and Bartlomiej Brat Oles (drums) collectively know as Oles Brothers, with the German clarinetist / composer Theo Jorgensmann. The music was recorded live and includes eight original compositions: four composed by Bartlomiej and two each by Marcin and Jorgensmann.
The music presents a wonderful
Free Jazz / Improvised Music setting, full of great melody lines, exciting
improvisations, fiery displays of virtuosic abilities and telepathic
conversation between the musicians involved. Jorgensmann is a very dynamic, but
non-aggressive player, who sounds wonderfully melodic even if he improvises
freely, which creates an exceptionally easy-going atmosphere, rarely present on
Free Jazz albums.
The Oles Brothers are famous
for being the best Polish rhythm section in Free Jazz / Improvised Music
environment and this album clearly shows why. They are not only technically perfect
but more importantly superbly musical, and as a result the music doest not
offer a soloist supported by a rhythm section setup but rather a trio of
equally important parts playing together as one.
Large part of the material
included here is a live version of the same material recorded by this trio on
their previous album "Directions", which was recorded in a studio.
Those two albums are a splendid manifestation of how music is influenced by
circumstances, the presence of an audience and so on. Basically these two
albums should be combined into a double CD release – perhaps when reissued at
some later date.
Overall this is one of those
instant "classics" which simply leave nothing out and are pieces of
Culture captured for posterity. Wonderful listening experience from start to
finish!
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