Jazz Articles about Zlatko Kaućić

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Zlatko Kaucic: Tolminski Punt

by Budd Kopman
April 16, 2008

Tolminski Punt is a very intense work from drummer/percussionist Zlatko Kaucic, taking its inspiration from a peasant revolt in the city of Tolmin in 1713. Actually the culmination of a long series of uprisings caused by issues like taxation and repression, this particular revolt was brutally crushed by the Imperial army, its leaders beheaded. The question that arises when an artist asks the listener to accept the connection between the abstraction of music and a concrete place ...

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Zlatko Kaučič: Tolminski Punt

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 8, 2007

In questi ultimi anni Zlatko Kaučič (percussionista sloveno cinquantaquattrenne, che a cominciare dagli anni Settanta ha frequentato vari contesti dell'avanguardia jazzistica) si sta riproponendo a livello internazionale, autoproducendo i suoi CD, allacciando collaborazioni con colleghi importanti ed imbastendo operazioni di un certo respiro e impegno. L'ambizione è comunque supportata da un indubbio talento e da idee estremamente chiare. Questo Tolminski Punt, ispirato ad una cruenta vicenda storica verificatasi a Tolmino nel 1713, comprende una suite articolata in sette movimenti e ...

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Zlatko Kaucic: Tolminski Punt

by Lyn Horton
September 30, 2007

The question of how a non-verbal language can be programmatic to tell a story is always answered through what the language does. In the case of music, melding what instruments say with the visual images or aural associations the instruments trigger challenges the imagination.

Tomlinski Punt is such a programmatic recording. It is taken from a live 2005 date in Slovenia, performed by a quartet led by drummer Zlatko Kau'i'. Kau'i' has put into musical form a historical ...

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Zlatko Kaucic: L Tolminski Punt

by Nic Jones
July 12, 2007

Percussionist and composer Zlatko Kaucic has recorded previously for the Splas(c)h label, but L Tolminski Punt may be his best-realized project to date. All the elements that have figured in his music in the past are here again, which is a sign of coherent musical thinking and the fact that his artistic vision is coming together in a way that's an inevitable by-product of every form of artistic expression.

The instrumental line-up here serves inherently to lift the music out ...

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Zlatko Kaucic: Pav

by Budd Kopman
January 18, 2007

Pav is Zlatko Kaucic's solo percussion homage to a close friend and fellow countryman, Zmago Sfiligoj. Kaucic celebrates his creative power and intensity, which filled a short forty-year life. The image and symbology of the peacock pervade the album. Besides being featured on the cover, Chevalier and Gheerbrandt are quoted in their “Dictionary of Symbols" as saying that the peacock is a symbol in esoteric tradition of a wholeness that is made up of many small parts--and ...

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Zlatko Kaucic: Golden Boat 2

by Budd Kopman
August 28, 2006

Golden Boat 2, which was inspired by the life and poetry of Srecko Kosovel and is dedicated to the memory of Steve Lacy, is an ambitious work--a total of seventeen mostly short sections covering two CDs and totalling 97 minutes. The pieces use a mix of easily recognizable classical writing for a nine-member string orchestra, sometimes alone and other times with various members of the main quintet chiming in. The strings feel like a glue that help tie the sections ...