Buba Badjie Kuyateh & Michał GórczyńskiBuba Badjie Kuyateh - kora
Michał Górczyński - bass clarinet
Cut The Air
MULTIKULTI MPF 004
By Adam Baruch
This is the debut album by the duo comprising of Gambian (resident in Warsaw) kora player Buba Badjie Kuyateh and Polish bass clarinetist Michał Górczyński. The album presents six lengthy musical dialogues, credited to both players.
The music is an absolutely
glorious testimony of two superb musicians conversing with each other despite
the seemingly remote cultural backgrounds. As a result of this telepathic
connection the music, mostly improvised, merges the cultures together in a
complete natural and harmonic way, as if these cultures were one, or perhaps
proving that all music cultures are one indeed.
The individual abilities of
these two musicians are obviously virtuosic, but this music has nothing to do
with showmanship or exhibitionism, which so often destroy music, being all
about the human cooperation, understanding and spiritual unity, being a true
"Art of the Duo" in its best incarnation.
Górczyński, whose roots
encompass a wide diversity of musical influences, from Hassidic music, European
Folklore, Jazz and Improvised Music, seems to be perfectly at ease with the
West African music and his conversations with Kuyateh fit perfectly within the
newly created amalgam. The natural contrasts between these two instruments are
completely obliterated here and the instruments simply compliment each other
despite their different scales and harmonics.
Overall this is a phenomenal
album, which should leave no music connoisseur cold, regardless of his musical
preferences. This music is universal and goes straight into the listener's soul
and heart, completely effortlessly and overwhelmingly. When the idiom World
Fusion was coined, this is what that idiom was really intended to be all about. This is definitely one of the
finest achievements of its kind and should be a part of every decent music
collection. Obviously essential!
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