Jazz Alchemist radio with Mikolaj Trzaska, Chlopcy Kontra Basia and others

Chłopcy Kontra Basia

Finally! This evening I invite you all for the first live program of 2012! We'll listen together to some fragments of the interview with Mikolaj Trzaska. Songs / pieces from the most recently reviewed cds (Inner Ear - Breathing Steam, Dennis Gonzalez / Ingebrigt Haker Flaten - The Hymn Project), from Chlopcy Kontra Basia's sel-released EP (their concert in Krakow this tuesday was great!) and from two cds that, although reviewed a while ago, didn't get their spot yet in our playlist (part of the summer lag). Hope you'll enjoy it.

Tune in to www.radiofrycz.pl (use the stream links, not the player on the site) and log into facebook chat during the presentation. Hope to hear from you soon :)

1. Fourth Page - Times Like These (from "Blind Horizons")
2. Dennis Gonzalez / Ingebrigt Haker Frlaten - Herido (from "The Hymn Project")
3. Chlopcy Kontra Basia - Mam Ja Męża
4. Metamorphic Sextet - The Rock Between (from "The Rock Between")
5. Inner Ear - Lonely Consumer (Tim Daisy & Mikolaj Trzaska duo; fragment of the interview with Mikolaj before the piece; from the "Breathing Steam")
6. Chlopcy Kontra Basia - Jerzy
7. Fourth Page - Blind Horizons (from "Blind Horizons")
8. Inner Ear - Ta-Pies (another piece of the interview before the track; from the "Breathing Steam")
9. Metamorphic Sextet - The Cloak (from "The Rock Between")
10. Chlopcy Kontra Basia - Ballad o Studzience
11. Mikolaj Trzaska Ircha Clarinet Quartet - Zikaron Lefanaj (piece of interview before)
12. Dennis Gonzalez / Ingebrigt Haker Flaten - Sweet Hour of Prayer from "The Hymn Project")
13. Inner Ear - Monster Confessions (fragment of the interview with Mikolaj before; from the "Breathing Steam")
14. Fourth Page - On the Edge (from "Blind Horizons")

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Metamorphic - The Rock Between [F-ire]

Metamorphic:
Laura Cole - piano, rhodes, composer, arranger
Chris Williams - alto sax
John Martin - tenor, soprano sax
Kerry Andrew - vocal, loops
Tom Greenhalgh - drums, percussion
Paul Sandy - double bass
Shabaka Hutchings - bass clarinet (just the title track)

F-ire presentes 2011

If you don't know the names above and (as I am myself) you're always interested hear new music no matter the authorship this album comes easily recommended. "The Rock Between" is, as written on the cover, "music about a journey through RSI, depression, recovery and motherhood". Extremely personal but also simply an universal story of recovering from the past.