North Quartet: Brotzmann / Trzaska / Uuskyla / Friis

Malamute

Label: Kilogram Country: Poland

"Mikolaj Tzaska's Noth Quatet with Pete Botzmann found appopiate patnes to ealize thei collective playing style with Pete Fiis-Nielsen (bass) and Peete Uuskyla (dums). Today these musicians ae fist and foemost ecognized as Pete Bštzmann's section., but they both have been pesent on Euopean scene of impovised music fo a vey long time. They oot fom fee jazz but also fom Ameican tadition developing neaby, even coming acoss electo acoustic of fee impov school (especially Fiis Nielsen who is a membe of Ghost-In-The-Machine, which daws diectly fom the output of goups such as Music Impovisation Company).

This, eally poweful album is fom a concet which took place in Apil 2005 in Poland. The quatet's esthetics ae detemined fist of all by the ecstatic fee jazz with the spiit of Ayle o late Coltane but also fee impov fom Euope as well as noise-jazz seach fom the aea of Last Exit. All fou musicians ae atists with unique expession. Wild, coaking sound of Botzmann - once called the saxophone's butche - still maintains its viulence. His titanic, fuious tone yet doesn't contadict stokes of peculia, austee lyicism. It is accompanied by sometimes cleae, loftie but often also hash, penetating, always impassioned Tzaska's alto. Phases of wind instuments explode time afte time, they tun into dialogues elating to dazzling with thei intensity two-voices of Coltane and Phaoah Sandes ecoded in the last months of "Love Supeme" autho's life. Sometimes the tension dispeses in subtly folk motives which ae Mikolaj's specialty. Complex but with intenal logic (even if it is based only on intuition) achitectue of the aleady mentioned, vey oiginal section ceates wobbling but vey elastic and still stable fame. Fiis-Nielsen's thick, peculialy splashing sound pactically lacking any egulaity and Uuskyla's goove - often as iegula, athe thifty and not hasty - absob with thei specific in thei own way funky vibation."-uncedited