CD ECSTASY PROJECT - They Were P / rafal gorzycki

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1. Who is next 06:56
2. Vigo … 06:39
3. What Harmony part I 01:30
4. What Harmony part II 05:42
5. … and beyond 03:46
6. Jeddem 04:19
7. Zero plus Zero 03:45
8. Na jednym rymie 03:19
9. They were P 03:52
10. Too for … swing 06:10
11. Where is atonal etude 05:44
12. Robello 05:50

Rafał Gorzycki – drums Tomasz Pawlicki - flute Łukasz Górewicz – violin Paweł Nowicki - vibes Paweł Urowski – double bass

„Gorzycki looks at music through its twentieth-century struggle. Starting with improvisation and jazz he turns his attention towards the experiences of the European chamber music of the previous century. This is where he tries to find substantial solutions for his musical experiments. The music of mature Europe digested in the atonality, neo-Romanticism and minimalist experiments seems to be great support in his poetic excursions towards Europe Impossible, Europe with no Chaos, Europe of philosophers, artists and craftsmen. And this is this vision that makes him study the rich heritage of the last century avant-gard. With his band, whose members come from the cultures of classical music, yet again does he discourse about the beauty and lyricism devoid of the pressure of the noisy commerciality. Ecstasy Project tells us how beautiful and wise Europe is with its experience. Let us listen, although so difficult it is sometimes to believe in this beauty…” by Zbigniew Zielinski

    Now artist present the latest album – They were P – premiere 30.10.2011 The Band established by a drummer and composer Rafal Gorzycki in 1998 (Bydgoszcz/Poland) is one of the bands connected to Club "Mozg" (eng.: “Brain”) named by top European newspapers as "the most creative place of recent years". The group performs modern jazz inspired by European jazz legacy and modern chamber contemporary. The band’s first album was released in 2001 by famous jazz label - Not Two Records (Krakow/Poland). The second Ecstasy Project Trio album "Realium" is released by polish-American label "Polish Jazz Network" by Cezary Lerski, (USA) "I worked over one year on the conception of my second album. I meant to describe some kind of melancholy. I exposed visions appearing during my stay at the countryside. This is European jazz - my favorite." Rafal Gorzycki After PJN released a compilation album called: "The Best of Polish Jazz 2005" with an Ecstasy Project piece, Rafal Gorzycki started its European career. The previous Rafał Gorzycki`s Ecstasy Project Trio album “Realium" was very well reviewed and recommended by the most important American jazz media. The biggest jazz website "All About Jazz" recommended Ecstasy Project as one out of a couple of hundred premieres in "new releases albums" section on the starting page. The June issues of JAZZIZ and CADENCE magazines (USA) (06.2006) gave great reviews of the album "Ecstasy Project Trio - Realium". That is why, "Gazeta Wyborcza" - the biggest polish newspaper, "Playboy" magazine and "Onet.pl" in their 2006 summary classified Rafal Gorzyckiego and his "Ecstasy Project" and "Sing Sing Penelope" as the most interesting and most important musical appearance of recent years.

Next albums from Rafal Gorzycki: “Europae“ and “Reminiscence Europae” were successfully received all over the Europe where artists played the concerts and festivals from Portugal to Ukraine and from Scotland, Norway to Grecee and Asia (India)

www.rafalgorzycki.com , www.ecstasyproject.com

REVIEWS: 1) Review of Ecstasy Project album "EUROPAE" "All About Jazz" - USA (23.03.2008) Ecstasy Project was formed in 1998 by Rafal Gorzycki, its drummer. Gorzycki absorbs a range of influences which he transforms into illuming nuggets with his compositions. His interest is currently churned by contemperary European and chamber music. He brings the two together, washes them in jazz and comes up with music that will linger for a long time in mind and heart. The line-up of the band has changed over the course of their three albums. The quintet featured here fits the mood perfectly; they play classical music with feeling and then jump into jazz, to open up whole new vistas.

"Maestoso non troppo" sifts European classical music, with Lukas Gorewicz (violin) and Pawel Urowski (double bass) casing the melody in an incendiary groove. Pawel Nowicki (vibes) cools the tempest but the atmosphere storms its way back when the strings return. Gorzycki changes the complexion with his drumming. He brings in constant change alternating a spaced out tap with the heavy pummel of the bass and snare drums. The tune smolders and cools by turns, filling it with a heady juxtaposition of sounds.

"Allegro vivace animato" opens up a new pulse. As the title implies, the song is animated. This is established at the head with a brisk beat that propels the tune as it surges down its chosen road. Tomasz Pawlicki (flute) floats down his happy way, letting the melody sway breezily, while Gorzycki adds the color, with light daubs from Nowicki. The quintet locks in on the melody and then lets it explode in a resounding climax.

Gorzycki is a remarkable drummer in the way he works time and space, accent and beat and gets the rhythm to pulse and fill progression. He can change the direction and impetus to give each tune a nuanced grain. His drumming on "Adlibitum-Allegreto rallentando" is a perfect example of his range and style. He opens with lithe tapping on the cymbals and then lights little sparks as he flits across and adds translucent colors to the arco playing of Urowski. Having cast a different light on chamber music, he holds back and lets the music bathe in its own bright gentility.

The band is Polish; the song titles Latin, but the music, quite simply, is universal. Jerry D'Souza

2) Review of Ecstasy Project Trio album "Realium" "All About Jazz" - USA (04.2006) If the Ecstasy Project Trio recorded for a label along the lines of Thirsty Ear rather than Polish Jazz, the group would surely garner some worthwhile press attention in the US. Nonetheless, with releases like Realium this may be a mute point before too long. Featuring instrumentation that varies from moment to moment but centering around violin, bass, and drums, Lukasz Gorewicz, Patryk Weclawek, and Rafal Gorzycki create music that may not be as stylistically “out” as many Thirsty Ear projects are--however, they do achieve a similar musical amalgamation that bridges modern musical aesthetics with an established medium. Gorzycki describes the project as “the way to peace and harmony. A retreat from the avant-garde” and the music achieves this aesthetic but does not rest there. These players are well aware of where different genres of music have been and what they have accomplished. They are also well aware of where they are interested in taking their style of music and how to utilize these various elements to achieve it. Although Gorzycki provides all the compositions, classically trained violinist/guitarist/pianist Gorewicz provides a lot of the calculated aural impetus. His keyboard playing can easily be identified as a relative of electronic chill music or drum 'n' bass--as can many of the bass parts--and his violin playing usually provides a lyrical arc that exemplifies the moods of Gorcycki’s compositions, from heartfelt elongated tones to dissonant passages. The key to success here, though, is the way the recording is layered and the way it uses space between instruments and passages in a fashion similar to the so-called ”ECM sound.” And in the end, the compositions entitled “Realium 1-8,” carry the weight of all these references beautifully. The album is a journey, opening with a dirge-like organ sound that builds like an electronic piece of music to “Realium 5,” which opens with strummed guitar backed by snare rolls that provide a light propulsive groove. As the music moves forward, the violin enters to state a theme, followed by a wah-wah guitar solo that never betrays the time or feel of the song but seemingly lifts the track and lunges it forward. Gorewicz is leading here once again, featured on both guitar and violin, and he does so with grace and vigor. Throughout, the band bridges silence, avant leanings, and unabashed lyricism, pacing and molding a consistently engaging and thoughtful album. Gorzycki took over a year to craft this recording, and the results reflect a shifting landscape of sound that can be identified as part of numerous musical contexts. Even within the same song, instruments flow to and from the foreground with a sense of pacing and spatial design. And while the settings are varied, Gorzycki's violin provides the real arc, sometimes plaintive, other times dissonant, but always reflective of his surroundings. Ultimately this is a unique album which ought to be particularly rewarding for listeners interested in discovering what jazz and its many variants have to offer outside of the US. Michael McCaw

3) Review of Ecstasy Project Trio album "Reminiscence Europae" "All About Jazz" - USA (03.2009)

The jacket photography of Reminiscence Europae shows what looks like a bridge by architect Santiago Calatrava, which is appropriate. His global works divide opinion and are impossible to ignore. His architecture is largely devoid of local cultural reference; he is the architect without borders. In a way, these photos are a suitable metaphor for the music of Polish group Ecstasy Project - seemingly simple yet technically impressive and austere. According to taste, it is perhaps beautiful, and with few obvious points of departure.

The Italian song titles and chamber ensemble sobriety that dominate these live recordings allude to a classical approach, but the violin of Lukasz Gorewicz (the main voice of the group) comes from somewhere between the melancholia of eastern European folk and the animated style of violinists Jean Luc Ponty and Jerry Goodman. The vibe playing of Pawel Nowicki is utterly minimalist, atmospheric in a Zawinul-esque way, and evokes a Twilight Zone eeriness. Underpinning this esoteric face is the compelling drumming of nominal leader and main composer Rafal Gorzycki, which carries an energy and force in contrast to the edgy minimalism around him.

The pieces have a modern, avant-garde feel to them - soundtracks to European art-house cinema. The manipulation of space and silences, which lend such force to the infrequent eruptions of drums, violin and flute, are shaped by the minimal utterances of Pawel Nowicki's vibes, quietly rumbling drums, Pawel Urowski's alternately sparse and lively double-bass, and tense violin notes which are more percussive than melodic. But there is momentum to this music; the innate tension in the short staccato phrasing and the abstractness and dissonance, rises imperceptibly to crescendos that are surprising in their intensity.

On "Presto Cinque," violin and flute trace the initial lyrical melody before Gorewicz takes solo flight. Drums and bass propel the violinist into some inspired playing on a heady segment that evokes the Mahavishnu Orchestra. A brief, silent interlude follows, broken by a circular vibes motif, before Tomasz Pawlicki's flute takes center stage, the notes unfurling progressively and becoming bolder as crashing cymbals fill the air. Pawlicki's playing becomes gradually freer and breathier as the piece reaches a climax, and the guttural cry that escapes his throat reveals the influence of Rahsaan Roland Kirk, or perhaps Ian Anderson - comparisons that do not flatter him at all.

The combination of vibes and drums creates dense soundscapes on "Maestoso non troppo." "Adibitum" glides from bowed bass and violin in harmonious tandem to blistering drums to near silence impregnated by softly chattering vibes. This is music in a constant state of ebb and flow.

An accompanying DVD shows this lineup in concert, but the absence of its more animated tracks, featuring exhilarating violin and flute improvisations, provides only half the picture. The dark and edgy minimalist approach of Reminisence Europae holds a certain fascination precisely because of that juxtaposition of rationed and unrestrained improvisation. Nevertheless, admirers of modern, progressive music will not be indifferent to this challenging, original project. Ian Patterson

Rafał Gorzycki & Ecstasy Project promują właśnie najnowszy, piąty album grupy pod tytułem: They were P. Jest to jubileuszowa płyta, zwieńczająca 10 lat pracy zespołu, będąca swoistym podsumowaniem stylu i języka muzycznego stworzonego przez artystów EP.

Poprzedni, dwupłytowy album koncertowy: Ecstasy Project „Reminiscence Europae” prezentuje nowe utwory EP oraz wersje koncertowe utworów z albumu „ EUROPAE”, druga płyta do koncertowe DVD z europejskiego tournee.

"To wspaniała podróż artystów w głąb koncepcji Europae" - All About Jazz.

Trzeci album EP "EUROPAE"  został bardzo dobrze oceniony i zrecenzowany na amerykańskim, największym na świecie jazzowym portalu internetowym  - All About Jazz (03.2008; USA)  

 ..."Dokonania grupy na długo pozostają w myślach i w sercu. Otwiera ona zupełnie nową muzyczną perspektywę. Gorzycki to wspaniały perkusista. Zespół z Polski, tytuły romańskie, a muzyka, po prostu, uniwersalna". Jerry D`Souza 

Druga płyta zespołu Ecstasy Project "Realium" została wyróżniona przez amerykański magazyn „All About Jazz” jako jedna z pięciu najciekawszych premier 2005r. W kolejnych znaczących amerykańskich magazynach muzycznych „CADENCE" i „JAZZIZ” wśród recenzji najciekawszych płyt 2006r, wyróżniona została płyta Ecstasy Project – Realium. Debiutancki album Ecstasy Project pojawił się na rynku w 2001 roku nakładem znanej wytwórni Not Two z Krakowa. W 2005r. EP wydał drugi album „REALIUM”, nakładem amerykańsko-polskiej wytwórni Polish Jazz Network. Utwór z płyty „REALIUM” pojawił się na ważnej, dwupłytowej kompilacji „The Best of Polish Jazz 2005” wśród największych sław polskiej sceny jazzowej.

Założycielem i liderem zespołu jest perkusista Rafał Gorzycki, muzyk o przygotowaniu klasycznym i jazzowym. W roku 2010 nominowany z kwartetem Dziki Jazz do Nagrody Polskiej Akademii Fonograficznej „Fryderyki”. Jest także współzałożycielem grupy Sing Sing Penelope. Podsumowując rok 2006 magazyn „Playboy”, „Gazeta Wyborcza” i portal „Onet” uznały Rafała Gorzyckiego i jego projekty za najważniejsze zjawiska muzyczne minionego roku, obok Tomasz Stańki, Braci Oleś czy Rafała Blechacza.

Artyści EP brali udział w najważniejszych wydarzeniach muzycznych w Europie: Jazz Jamboree, Warsaw Summer Jazz Days, Warszawska Jesień, Gdynia Summer Jazz Days, Big Jazz Ear - Budapeszt, Construction in Process - Poland 2000, Rok Polski w Austrii, Francji, Niemczech, Wielkiej Brytanii, Tydzień Jazzu - Berlin 1999, Polski weekend w Patras (Grecja) i wielu innych. Koncertowali w całej Europie od Portugalii po Ukrainę, od Szkocji, Norwegii po Grecję, a także w Indiach, Japonii i USA.

www.ecstasyproject.com www.myspace.com/rafalgorzyckiecstasyproject

 Artyści: Tomasz Pawlicki Bydgoszcz-wibrafon (absolwent Akademii Muzycznej im. Feliksa Nowowiejskiego w klasie fletu, dyplom z wyróżnieniem)- Pierwszy flecista i koncertmistrz „Opera Nova” w Bydgoszczy. Jeden z największych wirtuozów fletu w kraju. Paweł Nowicki Gdańsk-wibrafon (absolwent Akademii Muzycznej im. Feliksa Nowowiejskiego w Bydgoszczy w klasie perkusji). Także absolwent Konserwatorium Muzycznego w Strasburgu. Jest laureatem konkursów muzyki współczesnej w Rotterdamie i Clermont-Ferrand . Współtworzy kwartet perkusyjny „Kwatludium”, który często wykonuje premierowe utwory na Festiwalu „Warszawska Jesień” Paweł Urowski Bydgoszcz - kontrabas. Student Wydziału Jazzu na Akademii Muzycznej we Wrocławiu, gdzie studiuje kontrabas w klasie Jacka Niedzieli. Specjalizuje się w nowoczesnym, akustycznym jazzie. Nagrał również debiutancki album "Pig inside the gentleman" z zespołem " Contemporary Noise Quintet". Zdobywca wielu nagród na indywidualnych i zespołowych konkursach jazzowych, m.in. II miejsce na Jazz Juniors 2008 oraz laureat ankiety Jazz Top 2010 (kontrabasiści). Łukasz Górewicz Szczecin - skrzypce. Absolwent Akademii Muzycznej w Warszawie. Laureat wielu międzynarodowych konkursów skrzypcowych w Europie. Komponuje muzykę do wielkich show telewizyjnych.

Rafał Gorzycki – perkusja Tomasz Pawlicki – flet Łukasz Górewicz - skrzypce Paweł Nowicki – wibrafon Paweł Urowski– kontrabas

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  • Condition: Neu
  • Artysta: ECSTASY PROJECT
  • Rok wydania: 2011
  • Okres: Od 2010
  • Stan opakowania: Idealny (M)
  • Nazwa albumu: They Were P
  • Format: CD
  • Wydawnictwo muzyczne: Rafał Gorzycki
  • Stan wkładki: Idealny (M)
  • Numer katalogowy: MW 003
  • Gatunek literacki: Jazz
  • Liczba jednostek: 1
  • EAN: 5903292101118

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