This beautifully realized set includes ten single CD's recorded or re-mastered and released by ICTUS Records in 2007; all albums housed together in elegant cardboard box, measuring 6 x 8.5 x 6. Each audio CD comes with its own DVD-type packaging, with extensive artwork, release information, and line notes . Each volume of the set has a specific and separate character reflecting the cultural influences of time and the place where the music was composed and recorded; many artistic soul, one artistic vision. ICTUS catalog and additional bonus CD complement the whole set.
ICTUS’ extremely limited, outstandingly lavish 12-CD Box set, further pushes limits of musical subject matter and boundaries of conceptual-package. This beautifully realized set includes 12 separate CDs, housed together in one-of-its-kind unique box. Each volume of the set comes with its own uniquely designed plastic-free package. Very comprehensive booklet with many personal insights by ICTUS creator, rare pictures and essays from critically acclaimed critics complement the whole set.
This 12-CD box-set, a part of ICTUS Records - Andrea Centazzo Complete Archives Series is a special endeavor. Each CD and DVD has a specific character reflecting the cultural influences of a time and place where the music and the images were composed and recorded: many artistic souls, one artistic vision.
This 10-CD box-set, a part of ICTUS Records - Andrea Centazzo Complete Archives Series is a special endeavor. Each CD and DVD has a specific character reflecting the cultural influences of a time and place where the music and the images were composed and recorded: many artistic souls, one artistic vision. Features drums and percussion masters: Andrea Centazzo, Pierre Favre, David Moss, Alex Cline, Steve Hubback, Jeffrey Daniel Jensen and Per Oliver Jorgens.
ICTUS’ extremely limited, outstandingly lavish 12-CD Box set includes 12 separate CDs, housed together in a one-of-its-kind unique box. Each volume of the set comes with its own custom designed plastic-free package and a very comprehensive booklet with many personal insights from ICTUS' creator. Rare pictures and essays from acclaimed critics, compliment the whole set.
Imagination Quartet was formed in 2009. On July 29th the band recorded 6 pieces in FCMU studio, two of them featuring Mariusz Prasniewski (double bass). Band members perform both their own and others' compositions, showing them in a different light. Music by the Quartet is mostly improvised and acoustic. Anything may be inspiring - jazz, the beating down of rain or the drone of traffic. Anything that can influence our imagination.
It was a magic evening. Not only did the trio burst with a creative energy that was homogeneous and interactive, but the acoustics, gave the music an ethereal transparency and crystalline purity that the recording captured and the CD newly presents in all its singular beauty. (Andrea Centazzo) Bone
Romanian's folk music motives create just a pretext for a sophisticated encounter of the most innovative musicians from all spectrums of Central European jazz.
Comprehensive selection from the creative music event of 2006 featuring Steve Lacy, Derek Bailey, Kent Carter, Anthony Coleman, John Zorn Kent Carter, Alvin Curran, Evan Parker, Rova Saxophone Quartet, John Carter, John Fisher, Vinnie Golia, Tom Corra, Toshinori Kondo, Jack Wright, Ladonna Smith, Davey Williams, Eugene Chadbourne, Franz Koglmann, Gregg Goodman, Polly Bradfield, Radu Malfatti, Albert Mangelsdorf, Mitteleuropa Orchestra, Carlos Zingaro, Lol Coxhill, Martin Joseph, Melvin Poore, Gianluigi Trovesi, Marco Cappelli, Teo Jorgesmann, Lester Bowie, Tony Oxley and Andrea Centazzo.
Comprehensive selection from the creative music event of 2006 featuring Steve Lacy, Derek Bailey, Kent Carter, Anthony Coleman, John Zorn Kent Carter, Alvin Curran, Evan Parker, Rova Saxophone Quartet, John Carter, John Fisher, Vinnie Golia, Tom Corra, Toshinori Kondo, Jack Wright, Ladonna Smith, Davey Williams, Eugene Chadbourne, Franz Koglmann, Gregg Goodman, Polly Bradfield, Radu Malfatti, Albert Mangelsdorf, Mitteleuropa Orchestra, Carlos Zingaro, Lol Coxhill, Martin Joseph, Melvin Poore, Gianluigi Trovesi, Marco Cappelli, Teo Jorgesmann, Lester Bowie, Tony Oxley and Andrea Centazzo.
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.
Blend of hard fusion, electronica, bits of free jazz - kinda referencing 70's Miles stuff but definitely of today - there is some exciting stuff in it, worth chasing down.
...electronic environment with acoustic sound - on his newest album Kochan creates something I would call "the new electronic music" and getting closer to sounds associated with artists like Jan Jelinek, Oval, Polwechsel, Fennesz and others who create new sounds which encompass almost all spectrum of the sounds the human being could perceive...
Marek Romanski (Jazz Forum)
One could describe the music of Chalturnik as a mix of bar mitzvah / weeding band sounds, 1920s happy jazz, and Art Ensemble of Chicago mambo-jumbo philosophy, all filled with clichéd Peruvian street group repertoire and as weird as Burt Bacharach's psychedelic soundtrack to 1967 James Bond flick "Casino Royal".
Legendary album, all time jazz radio stations favorite in Poland.The best Polish soloists with string orchestra. All arrangements by Jan Ptaszyn Wróblewski and Wojtek Karolak.
