Ken Vandermark / Marcin Oles / Bartlomiej Brat Oles
Ideas

Label: Not Two, 2005
Catalogue No: MW-765-02
Format: CD

Audio Clip:

 Ideas (part one)

Tracks:
1. One [12:32]
2. Uncle B. [05:53]
3. Ideas (part one) [09:43]
4. Ideas (part two) [06:56]
5. Still Up [06:45]
6. Layers [08:35]
7. West Coast [04:42]
8. Tightrope [02:59]
9. Drumsax County [04:16]
10. Sonus [05:29]

All music composed, arranged and played by Vandermark / Oles / Oles

Recorded:
by Michal Rosicki at Sonus Studio Lomianki, Poland on March 21-22, 2005

Performed by:
Ken Vandermark - tenor & baritones saxes, clarinet
Marcin Oles - double bass
Bartlomiej Brat Oles - drums

About:
Our first contact with Ken Vandermark was just a handshake - at one of the concerts in Poland of the DKV formation. Marek Winiarski, the boss of NotTwo Records, introduced us to each other.
Some time passed until we had the chance to play together for the first time. When the Vandermark Five gave a concert, at the Cracow music club Alchemia,we got together after and jammed. The idea of recording an album together was with us before the evening had ended.
We had prepared original compositions for the recording session, but we talked before going into the studio, and after Ken Vandermark's suggest we decided for the recording to be one of the free improvisation.
We normally work in different musical fields and despite that, or maybe just because of that, every meeting like this brings about a new experience, even a kind of journey into the unknown...
Marcin & Bartlomiej Brat Oles
(album's original linear notes)

Video Clip:
Clip from "Musician," a documentary about Ken Vandermark. The movie is part of the WORK series of documentaries by Daniel Kraus (www.workseries.com)