Torrent: WESTBERG UDUPA MAZURKIEWICZ - EVERYDAY LIFE ACTIVITIES (2025) [WMA] [FALLEN ANGEL] |
...SIŁA I PIĘKNO MUZYKI TKWIĄ W JEJ RÓŻNORODNOŚCI
Trzy muzyczne światy, trzy wyjątkowe osobistości oraz trzy kompozycje, będące wynikiem ich spotkania. Tak w wielkim skrócie można by opisać ten album, na którym indywidualizm każdego z muzyków zamyka się w zwartym, artystycznym koncepcie.
Pomysłodawcą i siłą napędową całego przedsięwzięcia jest tu Jacek Mazurkiewicz, który w przeszłości współpracował już zarówno z dobrze znanym z gitarzystą Swans, Normanem Westbergiem, oraz hinduskim artystą, pedagogiem oraz mistrzem ghatamu (gliniany instrument perkusyjny) – Giridharem Udupa.
Ich spotkanie zamknęło się w jednodniowej sesji nagraniowej, która odbyła się przy okazji wizyty w Polsce Westberga. Efektem są trzy długie improwizowane kompozycje, które składają się na album Everyday Life Activities. Przyznać trzeba, że zadziwiająca jest spójność i lekkość, jaka z nich wybrzmiewa. Nie brak tu również spontaniczności, a w dodatku panom udało się złapać specyficzną muzyczną więź, która wzmaga efekt ich artystycznej synergii.
Ciekawa jest też słyszalna tu wyraźnie dźwiękowa wstrzemięźliwość. Choć każdy z muzyków wyraźnie znaczy swoje partie, to finalnie są one doskonale wyważone. Wszystko we właściwych proporcjach.
W samej warstwie muzycznej mamy tu ambientowe kolaże oraz sporą dawkę eksperymentu. Jednostajne, transowe motywy obudowane są dźwiękowymi smaczkami, pojawiającymi się raz po raz psychodelicznymi wokalizami i orientalnymi rytmami Do tego porcja surrealistycznej atmosfery.
We wkładce albumu znajdziemy następujące zdania: “Nothing major happened. These are just normal everyday activities” (Nie stało się nic wielkiego. To tylko zwykłe, codzienne sprawy. ). Jeśli nawet nagranie tego krążka było dla panów czymś w rodzaju chleba powszedniego, to jednak słuchacze otrzymali coś naprawdę niezwykłego.
Wojciech Żurek
An extraordinary meeting of three artists from three different musical worlds and three different continents. Norman Westberg (ex-Swans) and Jacek Mazurkiewicz have already released one album together "First Man In The Moon" in 2021 (published by the Swiss label Hallow Ground).
In the new project, they are accompanied by Giridhar Udupa, an Indian master of ghatam (a clay percussion instrument that looks like a jug). The album will feature 3 long trance compositions, referring to ambient, krautrock, free jazz and Indian music.
Jacek Mazurkiewicz describes the creation of this album as follows:
"I met Norman Westberg while supporting the Swans tour in Poland as 3FoNIA. A few years later, during Norman's tour with Gira, we recorded a duet.
The trio session took place similarly to the previous duet session during Norman's solo concert in Warsaw on the Swans tour.
Recorded with Adam Toczko, a quick meeting on a day off from work.
I invited Giridhar Udupa to the trio, whom I had met earlier during the period when I co-founded the band Limboski. I once invited Wacek Zimpel to play a few concerts with Giridhar. Wacek later created Saagara and I was wondering about some unusual musical context in which I would find myself with Giridhar. I was looking for an interesting sound configuration, but also a cultural one, with a different approach to creating music. I got the impression that for both Norman and Giridhar it was a fairly fresh meeting, not obvious. And on the other hand, ordinary - everyone did their own thing."
Detroit guitarist Norman Westberg moved to New York in 1980 and became a part of the experimental music scene that was experiencing its golden age. Westberg himself became a permanent fixture when he joined the iconic avant-rock band Swans in 1983, and was the only member other than frontman Michael Gira to play with them for most of the band’s run, both until their 1997 disbandment and his return in 2010. Westberg has also been involved with other legendary New York noise-rock acts, including Jim Thirlwell’s Foetus and the post-Swans Heroine Sheiks, in which he played with Cows frontman Shannon Selberg; and in 2014, he joined the noise-rock supergroup Hidden Rifles, whose members included Mike Watt of Minutemen and Mark Shippy of U.S. Maple. Westberg's solo compositions, most often for solo guitar and a set of effects, draw on drone and post-minimalism, bringing to mind dark ambient passages from Swans albums.
Giridhar Udupa is an extremely valued teacher and world-renowned artist, an Indian master of ghatam (a clay percussion instrument that looks like a jug). He was born into a family with long musical traditions. He began learning to play at the age of four, guided by his father. At the age of twelve, he already had his first performances behind him. He currently gives concerts alongside the greatest masters. He has received many prestigious awards. He performs in the USA, Spain, Canada, France, Switzerland, Germany, Oman and Kuwait. Giridhar Udupa is a member of the band of the Indian vocalist Bombay Jayashri, nominated for an Oscar for the best song for the film Life of Pi. He is one of the founders of the Layatharanga band. He also plays virtuoso other traditional instruments of South India, such as mridangam and kanjira, and is excellent at using the konnakol technique (a type of rhythmic vocalization).
For three decades, the artist has been a global ambassador and icon of Carnatic music. He is the founder of The Udupa Foundation, a charity organization established in 2015 to promote Indian music, performing arts and culture. He has parti*censored*ted in recording dozens of albums. He is also well-known in our country thanks to his cooperation with Polish performers, which resulted in excellent artistic effects, such as the famous Indialucia - Michał Czachowski's group / project or the Saagara formation, led by Wacław Zimpel. Udupa also played on the album Lechoechoplexita, released by Leszek Hefi Wiśniewski, and on the album of the band Layatharanga, released in our country.
Jacek Mazurkiewicz is interested in music in the broad sense. He puts his sounds together based on emotional impressions and pulse. Combining acoustics with electronics, he is constantly looking for a new sound. Solo as 3FoNIA, in a duet with Mikołaj Trzaska or Tomek Dąbrowski, the JMB trio with Wojtek Jachna and Jacek Buhl, in the Modular String Trio quartet, the Afrobeat quintet Faso Tamala are just some of his musical incarnations. With Patryk Zakrocki, as part of an audio mission, he massaged hundreds of pairs of ears in the Inner Ear Massage Office. He also deals with sound design, composing and producing music for films and theatre performances. He collaborated with many Polish and foreign artists.
1. Bend Then Break 09:48
2. Spoon In The Jar 09:42
3. Everyday Apparel (It's Our) 20:31
Norman Westberg - guitar
Giridhar Udupa - ghatam, konnakol, khanjira, percussion
Jacek Mazurkiewicz - double bass, electronics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKfEs2frvj4
SEED 15:00-22:00.
POLECAM!!!
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