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Live in Ukraine
2016 - Multikulti Project, Improvised Music Series: MPI035
http://www.multikulti.com/live-in-ukraine.html
http://www.multikultiproject.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-ukraine
* Mars Williams : sopranino saxophone, soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, toys
* Wacław Zimpel : alto clarinet, Bb clarinet, tarogato, shrutibox
* Hilliard Greene : double bass
* Klaus Kugel : drums
http://www.switchback.inemu.com/
http://www.marswilliams.com/
http://www.waclawzimpel.pl/
http://www.hilliardgreene.com/
http://www.klauskugel.com/
Recorded live by Klaus Kugel at DK Metalurgov in Zaporozhye,
Donetsk, Ukraine, on April 20th, 2015.
Reviews
By Martin Schray
http://www.freejazzblog.org/2016/11/switchback-live-in-ukraine-multikulti.html
[...]
The result is excellent music. The reeds work together well: Mars Williams is
the expressive center of the band, his powerful solos focussing the listener’s
attention, while Waclaw Zimpel with his singing and pure clarinet tone
(particularly on the bass clarinet), creates sturdy arches to support
Williams. More than that, the interaction of sax and clarinet shows a certain
congeniality. Despite their different musical personalities, Williams and
Zimpel find common ground allowing sharp dialogues with varied runs, where
phrases and their counterparts are refined and shaded between them.
This takes place in front of an excellent rhythm section - and Hilliard Greene
and Klaus Kugel are a match made in heaven. Kugel emits a fountain of
percussive sprinkles and showers while Greene’s sometimes plucked, sometimes
bowed sharp-edged double bass provides a grounding for his fellow musicians and
keeps the ship on course.
[...]
--
Marcin Jachnik (pl)
http://www.multikultiproject.blogspot.com/2016/09/switchback-mars-williams-wacaw-zimpel.html
Sebastian Chosiński (pl)
http://esensja.pl/muzyka/recenzje/tekst.html?id=23545
