When absorbed in improvised music it becomes very difficult to categorize and perceive it within a stylistic framework. It is the players searching, moving through many musical plateaus - from jazz through classical, from intellectualism to trans. This is the idea of open playing, full of expression and positive energy.
IREK WOJTCZAK Outlook
Allegro Records 016 (Poland, 2007)
"When absorbed in improvised music it becomes very difficult to categorize and perceive it within a stylistic framework. It is the players searching, moving through many musical plateaus - from jazz through classical, from intellectualism to trans. This is the idea of open playing, full of expression and positive energy." (Dziennik Baltycki)
1. Walking 8:09 2. Supersonic 9:16 3. 55-54 6:30 4. Jungle in the Cathedral 10:28 5. For Leon 8:09 6. Vamp 5:51
Performed by: Irek Wojtczak - saxophones, flute Piotr Mania- piano Patryk Stachura - bass Kuba Staruszkiewicz - drums
Recorded:
April 2005 at No Studio in Gdansk, Poland
About:
IREK WOJTCZAK - saxophonist, composer, arranger, graduate of the Academy of Music, Gdansk. In 2000, as one of the founding members of the Tri-Cities group Groovekojad, he recieved a Polish music award the Fryderyk 2000 in the Alternative Music category. In 2001, he won a Polish Dance Award for best new artist. As a session player, he has worked in both film and the theater on recordings for Leszek Mozdzer's transopera A Midsummer Night's Dream and the soundtrack for the film Segmnent 76 directed by Oskar Kaszynski. In 2004, the Irek Wojtczak Quartet recorded the music of Antonio Carlos Jobim on Look to the Sky, and the following year they released Outlook, with all compositions by Wojtczak.
