Jazz Articles about Zlatko Kaućić

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...