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piątek, 1 sierpnia 2025

Niechęć - "RecklessThings"

Niechęć

Dominik Mokrzewski – perkusja
Maciej Szczepański – gitara basowa, novation
Michał Załęski – fortepian, rhodes, prophet, nord stage, lap steel
Rafał Błaszczak – gitara
Alex Clov – saksofon tenorowy, saksofon barytonowy, ableton

Tytuł albumu: „Reckless Things” (2025)

Wydawnictwo: Audio Cave

Tekst: Renata Rybak


„Reckless Things” to nowa, długo oczekiwana przez fanów płyta Niechęci. Zespół postanowił nie iść za ciosem sukcesu ich poprzedniego krążka, „Unsubscribe”, za to zdecydował się solidnie przemyśleć i wyselekcjonować materiał na kolejny album.

czwartek, 7 lipca 2022

Niechęć - Unsubscribe (2022)

Niechęć

Skład:
Michał Kaczorek – perkusja
Maciej Szczepański – gitara basowa
Michał Załęski – fortepian, rhodes, prophet, nord stage, lap steel, głos
Rafał Błaszczak – gitara
Maciej Zwierzchowski – saksofon

Producent: Rafał Błaszczak i Sebastian Witkowski

Unsubscribe (2022)  

Wydawca: Audiocave.pl

Tekst: Szymon Stępnik

Bardzo lubię zespół Niechęć. Brawurowo wtargnęli na polską scenę muzyczną albumem “Śmierć w miękkim futerku”, gdzie grając swoistą wariację na temat muzyki fusion, zdobyli serca krytyków. Drugi album również odniósł spory artystyczny sukces, gdzie co prawda słychać było echa pierwszej płyty, ale klimat stał się nieco mroczniejszy i bardziej poważny. Z drugiej strony, wciąż obecna była tam spora dawka humoru (fenomenalny pomysł, by nazwać otwierający utwór “Końcem”). Niestety, na nowy materiał warszawskiej grupy kazano czekać nam aż 6 lat. Jak więc wypadły ich najnowsze propozycje znajdujące się w krążku pod tytułem “Unsubscribe”?

Już sama okładka budzi lęk. Widzimy na niej przerażająco wyglądającą głowę niedźwiedzia (?), która w połączeniu z czernią i bielą w bardzo wysokim kontraście dodatkowo potęguje uczucie przerażenia. Naprowadza to słuchacza w stronę depresyjnego odbioru granej muzyki. Nie ma już tej swobody, dowcipu, a dominuje smutek oraz jakieś egzystencjalne wibracje. Zresztą już sam tytuł, “Unsubscribe” przywodzi na myśl łatwe wyrzucanie ze swojego życia osób, które przestały nam odpowiadać. Wystarczy jedno nieprzemyślane kliknięcie lub gest, by pozostawić za sobą część swojego życia. Ów niepokój towarzyszy nam już do końca trwania krążka.

Co ciekawe, jest to niepokój osiągnięty w sposób specyficzny, zupełnie niesłyszalny na pierwszy rzut ucha. Gitary schodzą na dalszy plan, a na pierwszy subtelne efekty klawiszowe i długie budowanie napięcia, przez co muzyka ociera się niemal o ambient. Powiedzieć, że dominują tu długie molowe akordy, byłoby zbyt wielkim uproszczeniem. Harmonie są bogate, dźwięki mocno rozbudowane, a progresja przykuwa coraz to nowszymi melodiami. Długo rozmyślałem, w jaki sposób muzycy osiągnęli aż tak przygnębiający klimat, dzięki wyżej wymienionym ograniczonym środkom, ale żadna sensowna odpowiedź (a przynajmniej taka, której nie wstydziłbym się napisać na łamach portalu) nie przychodzi mi do głowy.

Każdy z utworów (albo niemal każdy) oparty jest o metrum 4/4, co paradoksalnie wcale nie infantylizuje ich odbioru. Zdają się być przemyślane i dojrzale zaprojektowane. W “Niechęci” nie ma instrumentu, który dominowałby nad innymi, a każdy doskonale zna swoje miejsce w szeregu. Być może to właśnie dlatego, każda kolejna ścieżka jest zupełnie inna, a zaintrygowany słuchacz z niecierpliwością czeka kolejne sekundy na rozwój wydarzeń. O dziwo ze świecą szukać tu genialnych solówek gitarowych, saksofonowych, czy klawiszowych — warszawscy instrumentaliści stawiają na inną kartę, którą jest praca zespołowa, świeżość, spójność oraz intrygujące melodie. Jeżeli jednak miałbym wyróżnić któregoś z muzyków, byłby to chyba Rafał Błaszczak, ale to przede wszystkim ze względu na barwę, którą był w stanie wydobyć ze swojego kawałka drewna, wzbogaconego o magnetyczne pickupy.

Co ciekawe, utwór promujący album, czyli “Praga” jest chyba najsłabszą kompozycją w stosunku do innych. Dla przykładu, już lepszą pozycją zdają się być choćby “Chmury”, oparte na złowieszczym motywie fortepianowym (niemal nie jednostajnym przez całość trwania w stylu kultowego “Take Five”), która przebijana jest wkręcającym w mózg motywem saksofonowym. Później dochodzi jeszcze najeżona dziwnymi efektami gitara, co hiperbolizuje szalone zło, wprost epatujące z tejże kompozycji. Spore wrażenie robi też nosząca nazwę zespołu “Niechęć”, może jest najmniej wyrazista melodycznie, ale za to najdłuższa i najbardziej progresywna.

Niektórzy recenzenci mieli sporo uwag do utworu kończącego, czyli “Epilogu”. Fakt, jest inny od pozostałych i przypomina początkowo raczej muzykę, która grana jest w szkolnych dyskotekach. Później odlatuje jednakże w dziwne rejony, gdzie w końcu mamy jakiś godny uwagi solowy popis Michała Kaczorka dającego upust swoim niewyżytym umiejętnościom perkusyjnym. Mając na uwadze, jak szalony i różnorodny jest to album, nie widzę w tym zabiegu żadnych wad. To przecież doskonałe, odlotowe zakończenie skądinąd dziwnej przygody z tymże albumem.

Podsumowując, “Unsubscribe” jest płytą, która robi ogromne wrażenie. Nie jest jednak dla wszystkich, ze względu na wszechobecne panujące depresyjne klimaty. Zaskakuje za to środkami formalnymi, których używa do osiągnięcia tego efektu. Pomimo dość prostych rytmów i melodii, potrafi zaskoczyć, a sam sposób rozplanowania utworów ociera się niemal o perfekcję. Być może zasadnym było oczekiwać czegoś więcej po tak długiej przerwie, ale to już tylko chyba czepianie się z recenzenckiego obowiązku. Niechęć powraca bowiem w wielkim stylu.


piątek, 3 kwietnia 2020

Jazzpospolita – Przypływ (2020)

Jazzpospolita

Łukasz Borowicki - guitar, prophet
Michał Załęski - piano, fender rhodes, prophet
Stefan Nowakowski - bass
Karol Domański - drums

Przypływ

AUDIO CAVE 2020/001


By Adam Baruch

This is the seventh album by Polish ensemble Jazzpospolita, led by bassist Stefan Nowakowski, which also includes keyboardist Michał Załęski, guitarist Łukasz Borowicki and drummer Karol Domański. The album, recorded following a period of hiatus, personnel changes and inactivity, seems to find the ensemble back in full form. It presents eight original compositions, four composed by Nowakowski, three by Borowicki and one by Załęski, which is a change as on the earlier albums the music was always co-credited to the entire lineup.

The album is dominated by the beautiful sound of Borowicki's guitar, who recorded four splendid albums as a leader before joining Jazzpospolita. Stylistically the music is somewhat more Jazz oriented than the earlier albums by the ensemble, but preserves both the Rock and Ambient subtext, which dominated the early releases and which brought them the popularity they enjoyed for an entire decade. Załęski provides a rich harmonic background for the guitar front lines and the rhythm section keeps the music flowing steadily.

The music is difficult to classify, as it easily belongs to a wide range of sub-styles of Fusion and even Progressive Rock on one hand and at the same time is pretty unique. Beautiful melodic riffs repeated over energetic rhythmic patterns are hypnotic enough to engulf the listener and keep him enchanted as long as the music is playing and leaves him wishing for more.

It is great to see Jazzpospolita back on the scene and I hope to catch them live again soon, as their live shows are always a remarkable experience. For their many fans this album is a solid continuation of their earlier efforts, but it is also a great opportunity for new listeners to get exposed to their music, which never fails to satisfy.

niedziela, 21 maja 2017

Jazzpospolita – Jazzpo! Live Made In China (2016)

Jazzpospolita

Michał Przerwa-Tetmajer - guitar
Michał Załęski - keyboards
Stefan Nowakowski - bass
Wojciech Oleksiak - drums

Jazzpo! Live Made In China

AUDIO ANATOMY 001



By Adam Baruch

This is the fifth (and first live) album by Polish Jazz-Rock Fusion group called Jazzpospolita, which comprises of guitarist Michał Przerwa-Tetmajer, keyboardist Michał Załęski, bassist Stefan Nowakowski and drummer Wojciech Oleksiak. As the title suggests, the album was recorded live during the group's tour in China and presents two CDs, each with seven original compositions, all composed and arranged collectively by the members of the group. The album includes live versions of all the nine compositions presented on the group's fourth album ("Jazzpo!") and five compositions from their earlier recordings. The music was mixed and mastered by Jan Smoczyński at the Tokarnia Studio with superb sonic result as usual.

Although these expanded live versions of the Jazzpospolita's material don't present any new facets of the group's superb live act, which I had the pleasure to experience at first hand several times, they do affirm their positions as one of the most successful young European groups that emerged in 2010s, with a strong appeal to the young generation of listeners, apparently across the globe. The highly melodic and hypnotic compositions, which create a trance-like and ever surreal atmosphere are very communicable and appealing.

All four members of the group manage to compliment their individual instrumental abilities and create a unique sound and even style, which is immediately recognizable. The sterile sound of the guitar, which is the leading instrument in most cases, brings memories of the instrumental Rock groups from the early 1960s, but modernized of course and supported by electric piano, create together a surprisingly convincing effect, when supported by the highly skillful rhythm section. Silence and breaks are an integral part of the Jazzpospolita magic, again quite unusual in comparison to what is happening in contemporary music.

This album is an ideal entry point into the Jazzpospolita world, especially for listeners unfamiliar with their earlier albums and therefore highly recommended as such. But overall it is a beautiful stretch of great instrumental music, which manages to create an atmosphere of mystery and anticipation, keeping the listeners in suspense from start to finish. Connoisseurs of atmospheric melodic improvised music should have a field day with this album, which I warmly recommend!

środa, 25 lutego 2015

Jazzpospolita – Almost Splendid (2010)

Jazzpospolita

Michał Przerwa-Tetmajer - guitar
Michał Załęski - keyboards
Stefan Nowakowski - bass
Wojciech Oleksiak -drums

 Almost Splendid

AMPERSAND 20



By Adam Baruch

This is the debut album by Polish group Jazzpospolita, which consists of guitarist Michał Przerwa-Tetmajer, keyboardist Michał Załęski, bassist Stefan Nowakowski and drummer Wojtek Oleksiak. The album presents nine original compositions (ten tracks with one tune repeated as a remix), all assumedly co-composed by all four band members.

As it sometimes happens, I listened to this album after being already familiar with the band's later work, therefore I can only imagine what my reaction would have been if I listened to it at the time of its release a few years earlier. Speculations aside, it still is a pretty amazing piece of music and a stunning debut. Arriving on such a busy scene as the Polish Jazz and alternative Rock with a spectacular, fresh and innovative album, which is completely different from almost anything that is already there, is truly remarkable.

This album defines the musical "language", which the group follows since its inception, which is quite difficult to define verbally. It is a mixture of melodic Ambient Music with Jazz improvisations, Rock rhythmic patterns and alternative Rock sonorities, which sounds simply different from anything else. For people desperately in need of known references from the past, it is somewhat comparable to the music released on the legendary "Buddha Bar" series, with many of the Chill-out and Lounge elements present but with the World Music references replaced by Jazzier vibes.

Regardless of the similarities, which might serve as points of reference, this music is fresh, exciting and sophisticated, which by itself is already quite rare. Combined with delicate melodic themes and first-class execution this album is by all means a very important step on the local music scene, proving that excellent music can be accessible to a large population of listeners, without even a hint of compromise and selling out.

In the last few days I have listened to this album repeatedly and I'm pretty sure it's there to stay on my short playlist for a while. Anybody not familiar with Jazzpospolita should definitely seek this little gem out ASAP and follow with their later albums. As far as I am concerned there is absolutely no "almost" involved herein; Splendid indeed!

sobota, 24 stycznia 2015

Jazzpospolita – Jazzpo! (2014)

Jazzpospolita

Michał Przerwa-Tetmajer - guitar
Michał Załęski - keyboards
Stefan Nowakowski - bass
Wojtek Oleksiak - drums

Jazzpo!

POSTPOST 01



By Adam Baruch

This is the fourth album by Polish group Jazzpospolita, which consists of guitarist Michał Przerwa-Tetmajer, keyboardist Michał Załęski, bassist Stefan Nowakowski and drummer Wojtek Oleksiak. The album presents ten original compositions (eleven tracks with one tune repeated twice), all assumedly co-composed by all four band members. The music was recorded at the legendary Studio Tokarnia with Jan Smoczyński presiding at the knobs, which naturally results in excellent sound quality, as usual.

This album is the first new music Jazzpospolita reveals since their second album, i.e. in over two years, which kept the many fans of the group in suspense. The fact is that this is new music but there is not so much new in the music itself, as if the group simply glided over time doing more or less the same thing they have been doing more or less since they started. Nothing wrong with that of course, but in a long range even the most loyal followers might loose interest.

But innovation aside, Jazzpospolita is still a very unique voice on the Polish scene, filling a niche for the young generation of music lovers, who are not really into Jazz proper on one hand, but who are bored with the contemporary Pop and Ambient scenes on the other hand. The group manages to produce nice melodic riffs, stretched over extended ambient passages and featuring some impressive guitar lead lines, which are overall quite hypnotic and engaging. This music has a chameleonic quality of fitting into many different listening environments, from background music while driving to intensive direct involvement with the music.

The four individual musicians make a remarkable contribution to the overall group sound and feel of the entire ensemble. The guitarist carries most of the leading voice, but his role would have been impossible without the rich background created by the keyboards and the superb rhythm section. Rhythmically the music is mostly Rocky, with steady bit and pulse, while the keyboards and the guitar create the improvisational dimension, which associates the music with the Jazz idiom. Combined with the Ambient sound the Rock and Jazz ingredients amalgamate into a unique mixture, which is distinctly Jazzpospolita.

Of course this is the best album the group created so far, and the most fun to listen to, but the group should be aware of the danger of stretching this formula for one more album. Hopefully they will reinvent themselves for the next one, leaving us in the meantime having a good time with this one. Thank you Gentlemen!

czwartek, 22 stycznia 2015

Jazzpospolita – Repolished Jazz (2012)

Jazzpospolita

Michał Przerwa-Tetmajer - piano
Michał Załęski - keyboards
Stefan Nowakowski - bass
Wojtek Oleksiak - drums

Repolished Jazz

AMPERSAND 29

By Adam Baruch

This is the third album by Polish group Jazzpospolita, which consists of guitarist Michał Przerwa-Tetmajer, keyboardist Michał Załęski, bassist Stefan Nowakowski and drummer Wojtek Oleksiak. In fact this album hardly counts as another stage in the group's recorded legacy, as technically in includes no new contributions by the group per se. The first CD of this double CD release includes six remixes (one of the tunes is included in two different remix versions) of their material from the previous two albums, created by other artists, while the second CD is a reissue of their early EP from 2009, which was not formally released previously. As usual there are no composition credits anywhere on the album's artwork, so the assumption is that the group members share the credits.

Considering that both CDs are about 25 minutes in duration, it seems that this album is one huge ego trip, which hardly justifies the lavish (and obviously expensive) packaging and the entire hullabaloo about it. The music could easily fit on one CD and a much modest packaging would have done the job. A numbered limited edition is a luxury artists have first to earn by producing some viable product.

It is nice to have the "legendary" EP finally released, but the group did move ahead since it was released and in retrospect it does not really hold the ground that well. Yes it was innovative at the time, but also very amateurish in many respects. Nevertheless, regardless of the many labels the "critics" stick to their music, Jazzpospolita was quite unique and interesting from the very start, which is already a great achievement.

The remixes, on the other hand, are a complete waste of time, completely unattached to the original music and make no sense whatsoever. Aesthetically there is nothing exciting about the way they are done, not is there any innovation in it. Personally I think that they do injustice to the original music, which is interesting enough and does not need to be transformed into other musical planes.

Overall life is, as experienced people know, a game of Hit or Miss, and this album is somewhat on the miss side, which of course is quite normal and happens to the best. The road to hell is paved with good intensions…

niedziela, 23 września 2012

Małe Instrumenty - Chemia i Fizyka (Obuh, 2012)

Małe Instrumenty (band):

Paweł Romańczuk
Marcin Ożóg
Tomasz Orszulak
Jędrek Kuziela
Maciek Bączyk

guest:
Andrzej Załęski

Chemia i Fizyka (Obuh, 2012)

Małe Instrumenty – Small Instruments – the name says it all: the whole band is about … small instruments. But that wouldn’t do the project right. Although it all started in 2006 with Paweł Romańczuk setting up a band to make use of his collected (small) instruments they never were a mere show band, exhibiting funny ways to produce sounds, instead they presented what's possible when you use all aspects of any instrument. Over the years they could be heard in quite some diverse contexts like audio books and film music showing a wide range of sound spectra. And even with “Chemia i Fizyka” (“Chemistry and Physics”) you will immediately get the impression of a soundtrack. (I felt most of the album like in a computer game though, many have probably come across “Machinarium” with the wonderful soundtrack by Tomáš ‘Floex’ Dvořák.) But since they are quite unrivalled with what they're doing a comparison is at least difficult.

On their first album “Antonisz” (released in 2009) they played own arrangements of music by the Polish film maker/composer Julian Józef Antoniszczak, and the second one in 2010 was called “Małe Instrumenty grają Chopina” (“Małe Instrumenty plays Chopin”). So “Chemia i Fizyka” is actually their first one with original material (all compositions made by Paweł Romańczuk). And it´s not only the compositions that distinguish this one from the former records, it’s also the sound that is much more mature here. They are still using small instruments of course but Wojcek Czern (and Piotr Nykiel doing the mastering) did a splendid job here. At no moment you will hear high-pitched voices or think of the music on this record as childish – although some of the instruments are actually toys. It seems that the musicians felt quite well at Studio Rogalów Analogowy and that the motto of the record company OBUH fitted perfectly here: “Odgłosy Bocznic Utworzą Harmonię” (roughly: “The sounds of side tracks create harmony”). The music of Małe Instrumenty comes – in a positive way – from a side track and it creates some wonderful moods.

There are two tracks though that don’t quite fit in, “Mostacha” and “Allegro”. That’s probably the reason why they were chosen as the last ones on the album. What separates them from the rest is the use of more experimental sounds and noises. (“Baroni” too features sound alterations.) If you watch the video below you will see that the members of the band are very imaginative when it comes to producing some new sounds and inventing new instruments, and I like those two songs most – but when you listen the whole album from the beginning through to the end this brings in quite a break and I’m not sure if that is really wanted.

“Chemia i Fizyka” is a clear recommendation if you like music off the main tracks and it’s recommended too if you like harmony! 

By   Dirk Blasejezak

Musicians of "Małe Instrumenty" aboy themselves:



Sample of their style:


Tracklisting: 1 Profesor Bambosz i jego uczniowie 2 Problemy z chemią na lekcjach fizyki 3 Śmierć na pięć 4 Gość z Alaski 5 Baroni 6 Pućki 7 Mostacha 8 Allegro



niedziela, 9 września 2012

Jazzpospolita - Impulse (2012) by Adam Baruch

Jazzpospolita (band)

Stefan Nowakowski – bass
Wojtek Oleksiak – drums
Michał Przerwa-Tetmajer – guitar
Michał Załęski – keyboard

Impulse (2012)


This is the 2nd album (not counting their early EP) by the young Polish ensemble Jazzpospolita (Jazz Republic in Polish), one of the many very interesting ensembles emerging recently on the local scene. The current lineup of the group includes guitarist Michal Przerwa-Tetmajer, keyboardist Michal Zaleski, bassist Stefan Nowakowski and drummer Wojciech Oleksiak. The album consists of eight tracks, which are all original compositions (no compositional credits are given on the album's packaging).

Although obviously deeply rooted in the Jazz tradition (as their name suggests), the group expands their influences into other areas as well, including Rock, electronic and ambient. The music includes plenty of improvisation, but the overall sound is pretty metallic and electronic, which is quite innovative on one hand but often difficult to swallow on the other. They are clearly cross-genre, still searching for a unique identity, but their path of experimentation and reaching beyond the obvious is commendable.


In the more "conventional" pieces they sound pretty much Jazz-Rock, but on the more advanced / experimental pieces their sound could be called Psychedelic and even Spacey. Obviously there is a lot of versatility herein and listeners, who like to be surprised and kept in suspense, will enjoy this immensely.

The nature of the music makes it quite difficult to estimate the individual talents and abilities of the ensemble members; well perhaps it is for the best, as the ensemble sound is exactly their forte. Whatever one thinks about this music, one thing is sure: these young musicians do their thing, which is more that most of their contemporaries do.

This album is highly recommended to the more adventurous listeners, who are not afraid to struggle with first impressions and harsh sounds, and are willing to give this music a second chance. Eventually there is a high probability this will become some of their favorite music in the long term. Impressive stuff!

By Adam Baruch
http://www.adambaruch.com/ 
 


Track listing: 1 03:09 Co Myslisz O Wandalizmie? 2 04:09 Czerwona Flaga (Ale Ja Sie Kapie) 3 07:23 Pasazer U-Boota 4 05:18 Pobudzenie 5 05:08 Ciezkie Powietrze 6 04:59 Grzyb 7 07:17 Nigdy Nie Pada Na Gornym Mokotowie 8 08:32 Protest Song? 

środa, 15 sierpnia 2012

Jazzpospolita - Impulse (2012)

Jazzpospolita (band)

Stefan Nowakowski – bass
Wojtek Oleksiak – drums
Michał Przerwa-Tetmajer – guitar
Michał Załęski – keyboard

Impulse (2012)


The Warsaw-based band releases their second album - a rare blend of classical and futuristic sounds. Impulse, released in February 2012, is a set of freely improvised, harmonically and rhythmically strong songs appealing to traditional jazz aficionados, as well as fans of post-rock and ambitious pop music. The new album is rich in guitar reverberations, overdrive sounds, delays and harmonic progressions.

Jazzpo, as they are known to their loyal fans, is a popular group of four young highly skilled musicians: Stefan Nowakowski, Wojtek Oleksiak, Michał Przerwa-Tetmajer,Michał Załęski. Emblematic of a rich Polish jazz heritage, their music shows an appreciation for the traditional and a taste for experimentation. They uniquely blend of nu-jazz, electronica and melodic themes. "Our inspirations are so varied it’s sometimes hard to understand how the four of us play so well together!" they say.

Since the 2010 release of Almost Splendid – a critically acclaimed album fussing classical and more imaginative melodies, the jazz quartet Jazzpospolita performed nearly one hundred concerts. They played at Open'er festivals, Men Playing/ Męskie Granie, Jazz Jantar, Garan Jazz Festival in Romania, and figured in the same line-up as Bonobo during their tour of Poland. The musicians state "We started to play live what progressively set a new, sharper sound. (…)". The album emanates their increased confidence and experience.

source: http://www.myspace.com/jazzpospolita



Track listing:
1 03:09 Co Myslisz O Wandalizmie?
2 04:09 Czerwona Flaga (Ale Ja Sie Kapie)
3 07:23 Pasazer U-Boota
4 05:18 Pobudzenie
5 05:08 Ciezkie Powietrze
6 04:59 Grzyb
7 07:17 Nigdy Nie Pada Na Gornym Mokotowie
8 08:32 Protest Song?


wtorek, 21 grudnia 2010

Jazzpospolita - Almost Splendid (2010)

In Poland we have very strong mainstream jazz, free and improv jazz getting stronger every year but nu jazz, thriving in the West, is honestly speaking underdeveloped. I wish more Polish young musicians would follow suit of such Polish artists like Stealpot or Skalpel who once recorded for legendary Ninja Tune label. And there is so much to explore in this dancelike and electronical jazz sphere where such different artists as Parov Stellar and Bonobo on easy side or Peter Nils Molvaer and Lars Danielsson on more ambitous one coexist.

In recent years two bands in Poland distinguished themselves in this field and can be recommended wholehearteadly: Contemporary Noise Quintet/Sextet and Pink Freud. They play top notch nu jazz in very ambitious form especially in Pink Freud case. And though there is still plenty of work ahead of Jasspospolita before we can count them among those two top bands I must say that as for debut this is more than satisfactory recording.

Straightforward, unpretentious, yet very melodic and accessible it shall appeal to those who only accidentally look into modern jazz garden. But because it at times is dark in mood, scratchy and oniric it shall also keep attention of more sophisticated jazz listeners for longer than just one song. It lacks complexity, density and ironic power of Pink Freud albums or kitsch refinement of Contemporary Noise CDs but it nevertheless bring promise of some individual and interesting voice to speak on its own in future. As far as I am concerned they got credit from me for their next recording. Let me finally say that music is composed and executed by following artists: Stefan Nowakowski (bass), Wojtek Oleksiak (drums), Michał Przerwa-Tetmajer (gitara) and Michał Załęski (keyboards) and invite you to listen to a song from this album:

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