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  | DOSKOCZ / KUREK ~ WRRR
ANTENNA NON GRATA 40 ~ POLAND ~ Free Jazz / Improvised Music
Recorded: 2023 Released: 2024
This is an album by Polish Improvised Music duo of guitarist / composer Pawel DoskoczFind albums by this artist and drummer / composer Wojciech KurekFind albums by this artist. Both musicians use prepared instruments but no electronics. The album presents ten tracks and lasts for just over half an hour. The music is uncredited and assumed to be co-created by the duo members. The album was released by the tiny independent Polish record label Antenna Non GrataFind albums on this label, which is one of the champions of Avant-Garde music in the country since 2017.
Most people facing the contents of this album would probably immediately dismiss it as not being music at all, even experienced and open-minded listeners, who can handle Free Jazz and Improvised Music with relative ease. This album does rise the fundamental question as to what can be defined as music (or Art in general) and are there any boundaries? Can any kind of body movement be considered as dance or any sound created using instruments, objects, or even only vocals be considered as music? In other words, is the freedom of Art absolute? I don’t pretend to have the answer to these questions, but I have some opinions, which are obviously subjective.
What I do consider as an absolute freedom is the possibility to create this kind of aural experience and I appreciate the support some small independent labels provide to musicians to document whatever they create, and release it to the world, as some listeners might find it fascinating, instigating, interesting and exciting, regardless if others do not consider it worthy their attention.
Overall, this is a very unusual, intriguing aural experience, as Avant-Garde as one might imagine, which is out there to be discovered by listeners and perhaps even enjoyed, or at least intriguing. To be approached with caution ;)
| | Updated: 10/10/2024Posted: 10/10/2024 | CD 1 Digipak Recommend To A Friend |
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