Enterout Trio (Piotr Melech, Adam Wróblewski, Sebastian Grzesiak) - Pink Ivory

Enterout Trio (Piotr Melech / Adam Wróblewski / Sebastian Grzesiak)
Pink Ivory

Label: Multikulti Project, 2010
Catalogue No: MPI010
Format: CD

The Enterout Trio was established in 2007 in Poznan, following the initiative of the clarinetist Piotr Melech, the percussionist Sebastian Grzesiak and the cellist Adam Wróblewski. Each member of the Trio has different musical experience which contributes to the eclectic character of their music. Sebastian Grzesiak and Piotr Melech began their collaboration in the Netherlands taking inspiration from Dutch avant-garde musicians. In Poznan they were joined by Adam Wróblewski, a classical cellist. From the beginning, the Trio's joint explorations were based on improvisation. Elements of jazz, modern and ethnical music combined with experimenting with sound result in an unconventional albeit consistent whole.

Tracks:

1. Terminus
2. improvisation 1
3. improvisation 2
4. Pink Ivory
5. Ksiezycowy
6. Sorrow
7. Robaczek
8. improvisation 3

Line-up:

Piotr Melech - clarinet & bass clarinet
Adam Wróblewski - cello
Sebastian Grzesiak - drums

Reviews:

When the Cracow Klezmer Band stopped playing, I was sad, because I liked their combination of traditional music with jazz and classical, of the dark menace behind the joyful themes, the combination of melancholy and aesthetic beauty, combining entertainment with virtuosity. Now, the Enterout Trio, equally Polish, is here with the same ingredients, but making a different stew out of it, more jazz, rawer, more adventurous. No klezmer this time, but rhythmic, melodic and lyrical improvisations full of gloom and foreboding.

Piotr Melech plays clarinet and bass clarinet, Adam Wróblewski plays cello, and Sebastian Grzesiak drums. With just the three of them, they alternate composed with fully improvised pieces. The first track, "Terminus", combines it all: a somewhat abstract intro evolves into a forward driven rhythm, with the cello's supportive drone setting the ideal backdrop for the clarinet's joyful theme followed by free improvisation, and when the rhythm slows down again, the drums goes and the clarinet and bowed cello converse in a modern classical way, then the cello goes forth on its own, full of vulnerable hesitancy and clear of tone, tearing the composition out of its pattern and pushing it deep into uncharted territory, yet without losing its inherent lyricism, and when the clarinet and drums return, they rejoin the - now mournful - theme. The improvised pieces vary between free improv and melodious creativity. The longest piece, "Ksiezycowy" ("Lunar"), is a gem, but then one of terror and madness, with a dark unison theme that develops into nightmarish improvisations and volumes of sound you wouldn't expect from a trio. A great album: excellent musicians and the coherence of their creative vision is even more impressive if you know that this is only their debut.

(freejazz-stef.blogspot com)

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The the design of Enterout trio's music is very eclectic, but it is worth to stress that Enterout debut album already presents very high level of musicianship and very homogeneous style. Granted, the aesthetic unity is apparent, with the tension between the music and joining plurality of incoming and processed styles. As it is already clear from unorthodox choice of instruments, it is granted that listener experience the sounds in a quite unexpected ways. When cello always remembers its classical provenance, it never lacks intensity of jazz double bass nor rock music inspired riffs. Clarinet oscillates between nostalgic Klazmer tradition and in the same time unfiltered trance rave. Percussion glues trio's energy with its rhythmic space; and it does it in the most exciting way. All players also appear to be analytics: they all know that music comes from an experimentation and analysis of single sounds - that's perhaps is most visible in  composition titled "Robaczek" (Insect).  But after all those analysis your are left with what's most important: beautiful melodies, unusual rhythms, and variability of exciting music material.

(Adam Poprawa)