Dominik Strycharski - sopranino, alto, tenor & bass recorders/blockflutes
Rafał Mazur - acoustic bass guitar
Myriad Duo
FSR 02
By Adam Baruch
This is a live recording of spontaneously composed Improvised Music performed by two prominent Polish representatives of the genre: flautist Dominik Strycharski and bass guitarist Rafał Mazur. The performance is edited into five separate tracks, but of course such division exists only for convenience sake and does not disrupt the natural flow of the music.
I have often stated that
Improvised Music finds itself at the disadvantage of being mostly a live/real
time experience and very rarely transforms itself into a lasting experience,
when recorded and later released on record, with rare exceptions of course.
This, fortunately, is one of those rare exceptions, where the music, or
whatever one might want to call this encounter between two artists, remains
completely relevant on record and deserves repeated listening.
For people familiar with the
Polish Improvised Music scene with both these innovative musicians since years.
Born four years apart in the 1970s, they are both active since the 1990s with
increasing frenzy, producing over time dozens of recordings and leading
numerous projects, both in Poland and abroad. This is their first encounter as
a duo, and luckily that live concert was also captured for posterity and
released on this album.
The flute/recorder, one of
the ancient human instruments, is sadly neglected in Jazz and Improvised Music
and therefore Strycharski's virtuosity as a flautist is especially appreciated,
especially in these circumstances. His beautiful tone poems and quirky
improvisations are a delightful trip in space/time and a rare example of
concentrated minimalism as an Art form. The melodic stream and the myriad of
tiny notes merge into a wonderful soundscape.
Mazur, who is a virtuoso
bassist, is also a musician with a truly chameleonic ability to adjust his
playing to any environment, as already documented on his various recordings.
His playing here is therefore accordingly more delicate and low key without of
course cutting down anything from its subtlety, sophistication or creativity. As a duo these two musicians
function as if their minds amalgamated for the duration of the concert, way
beyond just attentive listening and much closer to telepathic communication. In
short if anything deserves the title "Art of the Duo", this is it,
here and now!
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