The Light: Waclaw Zimpel, Wojciech Traczyk, Robert Rasz - Afekty (Multikulti Project, 2010)
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The Light it is telepathic trio, which brings together elements of Eric Dolphy, Jimmy Giuffre an Theo Jorgensmann into a music very much their own. Featuring three brilliant young musicians on clarinets, bass and drums, this is an astounding virtuosic second album that challenges traditions both old and new.
The Light (Waclaw Zimpel / Wojciech Traczyk / Robert Rasz) Afekty
Label: Multikulti Project, 2010 Catalogue No: MPI009 Format: CD
The brand new album of one of the most revolutionary jazz band in Poland. His debut album was one of the most important releases of 2008 in Poland, won third place on Diapazon Annual Critics Poll 2008. The Light it is telepathic trio, which brings together elements of Eric Dolphy, Jimmy Giuffre an Theo Jorgensmann into a music very much their own. Featuring three brilliant young musicians on clarinets, bass and drums, this is an astounding virtuosic second album that challenges traditions both old and new.
Waclaw Zimpel - clarinet, bass clarinet, tarogato, percussion Wojciech Traczyk - bass Robert Rasz - drums
Review :
Almost exactly a year ago, a wrote this enthusiastic review of "The Light", the debut album of the Polish trio consisting ofWacław Zimpel on clarinet, bass clarinet, and tarogato, Wojciech Traczyk on bass, and Robert Rasz on drums. Now, with their sophomore album, they confirm their quality, musical skills and vision. It is even more focused than the first album, and they perform only their own material. The approach is still as gentle, sensitive and free as the previous one, with great explorations of timbre and sound, finding a wonderful balance between rhythmic drive as on the last track "Shangri La", and lyrical and emotional delivery, as on "Rozpacz", on which a plaintive tarogato dialogues with a mourning arco, or intense creativity, as on "Hridaja", or percussive improv as on "Sattwa" on which the bass clarinet is propelled forward by Rasz's drumming, short, compact and powerful. Despite all the adventure and freedom of spirit, the trio is still fully entrenched in the jazz tradition, a great vantage point from which to explore. And the best thing is that the three musicians share the same vision and hence interact to perfection on this highly varied album. Highly recommended.
(freejazz-stef.blogspot com)
About the Artist:
Waclav Zimpel is a young, highly talented clarinet player from Warszaw who has become part of the international jazz scene. His new project evolves into the Polish folklore and jazz tradition as well as into modern music. With a changing atonal-free and tonal upto a sentimental-folkloristic concept the four musicians create an abundance of interaction patterns, textures and moods far beyond folklore and jazz. Born in 1983. He studied classical clarinet with Prof. Zdzislaw Nowak at I.J. Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznan (diploma with distinction in 2008). He studied also with Prof. Johannes Peitz at Hochschule für Music und Theather in Hannover.
On polish music scene Vaslav Zimpel debuted with jazz quintet Emergency, searching his own ways of musical expression, based on jazz tradition and contemporary classical music. His very personal musical language is mainly influenced by works of such artists as Eric Dolphy, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Anton Webern, Igor Stravinsky, Peter Brötzmann, Witold Lutoslawski. Zimpel uses very unique ways of building harmonic and melodic structures combined with strong emotional expression. He cooperated with main avant jazz musicians from different countries such as Ken Vandermark, Mikolaj Trzaska, Theo Jörgensmann, Tim Daisy, Dave Rempis, Mark Tokar, Johannes Bauer.
He has recorded his firs album "The Light" with Wojtek Traczyk on double bass and Robert Rasz on drums for the polish label MultiKulti. He won the Grand Prix on III Zachodniopomorski Festiwal Klarnetowy - national polish clarinet competition.
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