Enzo Rocco & Pablo Ledesma | seis episodios en busca de autor

Great fine instantaneous music from this excellent duo! Recorded live at Conservatorio de Musica Gilardo Gilardi and at Bachillerato de Bellas Artes/UNLP, La Plata, Argentina. Pablo Ledesma has a long career that brought him to play with musicians such B. Morris, H. Greene, W. Mathews, B. Rainey, R. Weber, C. A. Dato, G. Lenoci, A. Fernàndez, P. Hollinger, E. Dean, L.Coxhill, P. Hession, J. Edwards, S. Waterman, Teatro Argentino Orchestra and many more. Guitarist Enzo Rocco has also a long career as improviser and composer. He plays, among others, with C. A. Dato, G. Schiaffini, S. Noble, J. Edwards, L. Coxhill, T. Bancrofti. Continue reading

Karolina Styła | My Favourite Songs | Not Two Records

I am a Polish singer and I love music. I have been singing for some time, at the age of 18 I recorded my debut cd which you can listen to here, with the top Polish musicians such as Joachim Mencel, Andrzej Cudzich, Lukasz Zyta, Piotr Wojtasik, Leszek Szczerba, Ryszard Styła. With this band I had a lovely time performing at different places, among which the most important Era Jazzu Festival in Poznan 2000 as a support to Archie Shepp. Then I spent 3,5 years at the University of Music and Dramatic Arts in Graz, Austria, where I studied under Jay Clayton, Mark Murphy, Stjepko Gut, Fritz Pauer, Renato Chicco, Laurie Antonioli and others. Since then a few years have passed and I’m again in Krakow, still singing, hoping to do more in music. Continue reading

Leszek Kułakowski | Katharsis | Not Two Records

The artist who recorded this album is a pianist who uses tasteful aesthetics created by Hancock and Jarret. Intelectual conception of improvisations, eagerly avoiding tonality, is likeable especially to those acquainted with modern mainstream. Kułakowski is not looking for easy fame. He avoids formal simplifications. He is searching, experimenting. — Piotr Iwicki and Olaf Szefczyk, Gazeta Wyborcza Continue reading

Leszek Kułakowski | Eurofonia | Not Two Records

At the 4th Komeda Jazz Festival in 1998 Leszek Kulakowski presented his project and symphonic score called EUROFONIA. This is not his first attempt to combine symphony music with jazz. The compositions “Chopin And Other Songs” are examples of such combinations. EUROFONIA is the pure invention of Leszek. This is a very colourful composition in which a refined symphonic orchestra is the background for a swinging jazz band accompanied by a soprano singer. This is a victory for the universal values of music and most of all a great victory for Leszek Kulakowski. — Anna & Carlos Sanchez Continue reading

Illàchime Quartet | I’m Normal, My Heart Still Works | fratto 9

Illàchime Quartet is an instrumental ensemble based in Naples (Italy) that joins electronics and acoustic instruments. It gathers sounds and noises from the surroundings as well as scattered fragments of acoustic memories, which form the texture for the interventions of the musicians along rough and terse lines, often improvised. Final target: to intrigue and to seduce the audience by means of an unconventional, highly kinematic sonic experience. This new album contains six tracks and a ghost track. Continue reading

I/O | Polytone | fratto 9

The band has played with different artist like Liars, Ovo, Anatrofobia, Damo Suzuki, Giuseppe Ielasi, Rosolina Mar and many others. I/O defined itself as “Minimalistic Rhythmic Improvisation” and “Poytone” is characterized by a focus on the rhythmic aspects of the songs (referring in particular to the idea of “pulse” meant in the minimalistic way), which are built and de-constructed in the 8 tracks of the cd. Continue reading