“Energetic composition based on a catchy bold motif, a expressive bass line and a free, pulsating rhythm of drums brilliantly combines the tradition of Polish jazz and spiritual jazz with modern sensitivity and urban energy” – reads in information about the single “Kalaczakra”.
This is the first announcement of the upcoming album “Live Spirit I” (premiere on July 25) groups Wojtek Mazolewski Quintet Recorded in the cult concert studio of the Polish Radio Witold Lutosławski. The two-disc publishing house brings four new compositions and spontaneous versions of classic songs, including a 20-minute version of the title piece from the best-selling album “Shelf”.
Wojtek Mazolewski and an uneven wheel of time
“This is our latest composition, it was created just before this series of concerts. Propled with a fast, irregular drum’n’bass rhythm, it draws us into looped Ostinato, as if we were in an uneven time wheel. In Hinduism, Kalachakra means ‘Circle of time’ It combines with a rich and complex theory covering cosmology, astrology, medicine and unique tantric methods of meditation through initiation and disciplined practice of Kalachakra opens access to the most urban levels of consciousness, allowing to perceive the reality as it really is ” – explains Wojtek Mazolewski.
Upcoming album “Live Spirit I” (will be released on a double vinyl) he was recorded during the promotional route of the last studio publishing house “Beautiful People”. The band Wojtek Mazolewski, apart from their performance in the Polish Radio Studio in Warsaw, played dozens of concerts around the world – he sold out Jazz Cafe in London, he was also greeted in Chile, Argentina, Colombia or Mexico.
“Jazz is a music for me that combines opposites – a free spirit and a formal rigor, subtle lyricism and sensual uncontrollable, charisma of performers or composers with an euphoric sense of community in the band. WMQ music is my response to restless modernity – I want our sounds to give us the listeners, the opportunity to escape from everyday madness and help us all better people ” – emphasizes Wojtek Mazolewski.
Wojtek Mazolewski Quintet – details of the album “Live Spirit I” (tracklista):
1a “Live Spirit”
2a. “New Energy”
3a. “Kalaczakra”
4b. “Exist”
5b. “Air”
6b. “Sun”
7b. “Taste of Music”
8c. “Shelf”
9d. “Beautiful People”
10d. “Art”
11d. “Beautiful Hands”
12d. “We love you”.