Marcin Wasilewski Trio: Live

Unbeknownst at the time of their August 2016 concert performance in Antwerp, pianist Marcin Wasilewski’s team with Slawomir Kurkiewicz/b and Michal Miskiewicz/dr were recorded for posterity. This is usually the best way to capture a band as their mind and muscles are there most free. This album that contains music from that gig, is a rich mix of pastoral exploration and lyrical contemplation. The team does some wonderfully selected pieces of other artists for interpretation; The  Police’s “Message in a Bottle” is a deep and delicate pulsation of extrapolation, and Herbie Hancock’s “Actual Proof” has some intrepid interplay between Kurkiewicz and Miskiewicz. “Wasilewiski’s own “Spark of Life/Sudovian Dance” opens with soft reflective spaces before building up into a dramatic passion, while his “Three Reflections” as autumnal brush work and a bass solo that is like water color brush strokes. Open spaces with a full moon glowing from above.

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