Beryllium + Paweł Szulik - "Kumonosu-jō"

Beryllium + Paweł Szulik

Beryllium:

Michał Górczyński - klarnety, elektronika
Andrzej Izdebski - elektronika, gitary

Gościnnie:
Paweł Szulik - shakuhachi

Album: "Kumonosu-jō"

Wydawca: Antenna Non Grata (2025)

Review author: Viačeslavas Gliožeris

“Kumonosu-jō” (蜘蛛巣城), or “Throne of Blood,” is the title of a renowned 1957 movie by Japanese director Akira Kurosawa. The film is a kind of adaptation of Shakespeare, set in Japanese tradition. Kurosawa's movies were especially popular in the 1960s and 1970s, and he was, to use today's terms, an alternative influencer of his era. It was partly because of him that I became increasingly attracted to Japanese films, music, and aesthetics many decades ago.

Mazzoll /Knuth / Diffusion Ensemble - Azure Excess (1999)

Mazzoll /Knuth / Diffusion Ensemble

MAZZOLL - clarinet
Robert KNUTH - vocal, gopichand, klong-klong
Adam KAMIŃSKI - accordion, samplings, keyboards
Wojciech MAZOLEWSKI - guitar
Michał GOS - drums, percussions
Michał JARZĘBSKI - electric guitar
Marek ZYGMUNT - prepared sounds, scratching, vocal
Kobas LAKSA - vocal
Anna SZAJNA - vocal, sleeping drum
Jacenty POLEWSKI -vocal, rainchord
Andrzej IZDEBSKI - guitar
Marek ROGULSKI - trumpet, trombone
Piotr WYRZYKOWSKI - tenor saxophone
Dominik KUŚMIERCZYK - elektronics 

Azure Excess (1999)

In this project Jerzy Mazzoll was responsible for music while Robert Knuth for visual side. It was very interesting of yass movement that it tended to merge different arts. Since I was able to listen to CD only I will only write about music. It is typical for Polish avantgarde of this age: spontaneous, spiritual, ecstatic, chaotic even. There is as much creativity in it as joking. That's why at moments it sounds like meeting of howlings redskins. Still there is in this music enough freshness to justify its rehearsal after so many years. It remains important stage in development of Polish avant jazz. Even if modern projects far surpass it in quality...

Tracklist:
1. Ci co mają usłyszeć...
2. Błoto proroka
3. Kosmiczny masaż
4. Haro - bóg łez
5. Przekaz mocy
6. To mój tranzystorek (Czyli życie i śmierć na dłoni)
7. Dusza światła
8. Dziwny atraktor
9. Z takim samym żarem
10. Silentium VI
11. Pieśń powracających dzieci (Z cyklu litanie arytmiczne)
12. Gdy Jezus z Werony wołał
13. Oto oto mówienie prawdy (Too oto oot)
14. Księga bez wyjścia
15. Moje syberie (Z cyklu arytmiczne modlitwy, cz. VII)
16. Podaj mi klucz do wszechrzeczy

By Maciej Nowotny