Miłość, Tymon I Trupy - Muzyka Do Filmu Sztos - Gowi Records 1997

For the last post of this serie, let’s finish where we’ve started. This split cd is the perfect exemple of the Yass movement. Two bands are featured on this recording Miłość (love) and Tymon I Trupy. If Miłość was the most popular group of this movement, its music remains pretty much in the tradition of jazz. Noticeably less popular, Tymon I Trupy shows more the Yass spirit by having much wider influences. The leader of those two bands and one of the founding members of this cultural movement is the multi instrumentalist Tymon Tymański. An interesting article about the history and ideas of Yass can be found here:

https://culture.pl/en/article/yass-the-jazz-the-filth-and-the-fury

Last but not least Miłość shared the studio and the stage with Lester Bowie, they have recorded two albums together that will perhaps be featured here in the future.

*Miłość

-Pamiętny Merta (Przykrywanie Gałęziami / A Nuż Bóg

-Kontredans II

-Doxy II

-Kontredans III

-Senna I

-Etno II

-Senna II

-Zdrowy Kołłątaj I

-Pływaj Obok Mnie

-Chory Kołłątaj

-Zdrowy Kołłątaj II

*Tymon I Trupy

-Widziałem, Widziałem

-Komu Się Poskarżyć

-To Coś

*Miłość

-Mikołaj Trzaska: alto & soprano saxophone, bass clarinet

-Tymon Tymański: contrabass

-Jacek Olter: drums

-Lesław Możdżer: piano

-Maciej Sikała: tenor & soprano sax

*Tymon I Trupy

-Tomasz "Święty" Hesse: bass guitar

-Jacek Olter: drums

-Tomasz Gwinciński: guitar

-Lesław Możdżer: keyboards

-Maciej Sikała: tenor sax

-Tymon Tymański: vocals, guitar

Music for the film « Sztos" by Olaf Lubaszenko

Recorded on  3, 5 and 17 March 1997 in the studio of Polish Radio Gdańsk.

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Łoskot - Koncert W Mózgu 1995

The jazz of Eastern countries is not very represented here, so I decided to start a trip to the east that will take us to ...

Our first step takes us to Poland to rediscover the Yass scene which lasted almost a decade and which was very interesting but surprisingly remained almost completely unknown outside Polish borders.

If you want to know more about this scene:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yass_(music)

In fact, most of the records in this scene are hard to find today.

Let's start with one of the iconic bands of this scene: Łoskot and their debut album. The only two times I've seen this disc including the time I bought it, it was a promo copy without cover and obviously distributed with a jazz magazine, yet discogs announces a commercially distributed disc but that I've never seen.

https://www.discogs.com/fr/Łoskot-Koncert-W-Mózgu/release/3202059

Łoskot Koncert W Mózgu

-Szymon Rogliński: didgeridoo

-Olo Walicki: double bass

-Jacek Olter: drums

-Jacek Majewski: percussions

-Mikołaj Trzaska: saxophone

Jacek Olter and Mikołaj Trzaska where also members of Miłość a band that will be featured here in a near future. Jacek Olter died in 2001 but Mikołaj Trzaska is now an important musician of the European free jazz scene.

Last but not least Łoskot reunited in summer 2017, obviously any new recording is on the way but who knows…?

1/ Your Lady, 2/ Radość Uzdrowienia, 3/ Sfinx, 4/ Chłopaki Na Damkach, 5/ Peace On Earth

All compositions by Mikołaj Trzaska except « Your Lady » and "Peace On Earth " by John Coltrane.

Recorded and published in 1995

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