Krzysztof Kuśmierek: Tenor Saxophone
Patryk Rynkiewicz: Trumpet
Patryk Matwiejczuk: Piano
Flavio Gullotta: Double Bass
Stanisław Aleksandrowicz: Drums
Anna Gadt: Voice (guest)
Album's title: "Trust"
Multikulti Project (2024)
Review author: Viačeslavas Gliožeris
There are albums and artists, where the listener from the very first few minutes already knows – they are from a high league. Poznań's band Unleashed Cooperation's second album “Trust” opener says it all – with its African rhythms and soulful brass tunes, “String Theory” sounds right like it comes from one of the leading London's "new jazz" scene collectives. Still, the song turns into a slightly melancholic piano piece with Tomasz Stańko-like soloing trumpet over it.
“Coincidence 1” is a brief introduction of the guest vocalist, Anna Gadt. A beautiful example of free vocal improvisation, once quite popular but almost forgotten during the last few decades. “Mr. Paul's Strange Dream” is a cinematic piece, something between operatic and cartoonish, which includes a boppish insert, spiced with sax soloing.
“Poliste Dominula” is a richer arranged mid-tempo piece with a lot of space for reeds soloing. Slightly melancholic, it starts almost as a pop song, but switches toward a jazzy-orchestrated composition soon. As with many other albums' pieces, tune, rhythm, and arrangements change during the same song, making all music more colourful and variable.
“Mr. Paul's Beautiful Dream” contains dreamy Anna's vocals again – the singer is obviously responsible for the more moody part of the album's music. A bit nostalgic and really beautiful. “Coincidence 2” is another short piece with Anna's vocals, sort of an intro to the upcoming “Laura's Theme” - the longest song on the album and a central composition with Gadt's singing. “Laura's Theme” is a small piece of art itself, with expressive sax soloing against beautiful free vocals improvisations and gorgeous, dramatic all-band musicianship. “Sea”, the closer, radiates a more relaxed atmosphere, still embroidered with tension and nervous piano soloing on the back. It explodes in the last two minutes with screaming sax.
Unleashed's "Trust” reminds me a lot of some beautiful and creative music, coming from different times and places of the Polish jazz scene – yass. Same brave cross-genre musicianship, same cinematic feel, same unplayed passion. Just yass was a product of its time – with psychedelic absurdism, unrestricted freedom, hope, and strong punkish spirit of (unsuccessful) revolution of the late 80s. “Trust” comes from the world of the second New Millennium decade – less eclectic, not so much nervous, less ambitious, and … less naïve. Its beauty is rooted in Chick Corea's fusion of early 70s, Tomasz Stanko's melancholic romanticism, and Polish cultural tradition in general. Anna Gadt's vocals are a significant improvement, surprisingly responsible for a freer atmosphere and Hippie spirit of the early 70s at the same time.
An interesting, well-balanced, and beautiful work, a true artistic soundtrack of today.
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