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Instrument: Drums

Album Review

Most AAJers, be they writers or readers, probably don't speak Polish. Reading over the composition titles listed on Appaz by the Polish duo Jan Małkowski and Dominik Mokrzewski one might think they are just more words from a foreign tongue. They are, but its language is semordnilap, in other words, names spelled backwards. The title track “Appaz" is for Frank Zappa. Opening with gentle phrases from Małkowski's tenor saxophone and brief scraping cymbals, the music builds from its quiet genesis ...

Album Review

Light Star Guiding: Light Star Guiding

Read "Light Star Guiding" reviewed by Mark Sullivan

by Mark Sullivan
March 1, 2020

Light Star Guiding is a Polish quartet which makes music collectively, with a seamless combination of composition and improvisation (all the music on this album is credited to the whole band). It is a very contemporary sound, frequently employing repetition and trance. Tenor saxophonist Ray Dickaty says he sees the project as an electric counterpoint to his more acoustic groups, as well as a return to the noise-jazz of his early bands. Guitarist Mikołaj Poncyljusz has been heard most prominently ...