Home » Jazz Articles » Album Review » High Definition Quartet: Bukoliki
High Definition Quartet: Bukoliki
By Track review of "V"Featuring spacey sound-sculpting processes, Classical music inferences and intertwining dialogues, the quartet's meticulous inner-workings consist of variable currents and loosely articulated advancements amid hard-hitting choruses, executed with striking agility. Tenor saxophonist Mateusz Sliwa's deeply powerful lines and climactic opuses creatively align with pianist Piotr Orzechowski's topsy-turvy and fluid phrasings where the band merges frothy free-form overtures with introspective interludes. But the group also cuts the cerebral aspects with memorably melodic hooks on various tracks.
The band abides by an egalitarian mindset and every composition stands on its own. Yet "V" closes out the album in mind-bending fashion. Bassist Alan Wykpisz kicks it off with booming notes, followed by Orzechowski's nimble tinkering, paving the way for a flurry of complex medium tempo unison phrasings with several bars of free-bop motifs and the frontline's hearty soloing escapades. Along with succinct harmonic treatments, the artists delve into a whirling series of events via contrapuntal mechanisms, terse exchanges and shifting paradigms. Towards the end, Sliwa and drummer Dawid Fortuna rough it up and tear the primary theme down to pieces. Thus, High Definition Quartet is one of the most resourceful and enterprising progressive jazz outfits I've heard in quite a while.
Track Listing
Personnel
Mateusz Sliwa: tenor saxophone; Piotr Orzechowski 'Pianohooligan:’ piano; Alan Wykpisz: double bass; Dawid Fortuna: drums.
Album information
Title: Bukoliki | Year Released: 2016 | Record Label: Fortune Productions
< Previous
Sixteen: Drummers Suite
Comments
Tags
High Definition Quartet
CD/LP/Track Review
Mateusz Sliwa
Glenn Astarita
Fortune Productions
Poland
Warsaw
Bukoliki