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Maciej Stasiowski
Since: 2026 | Position: Contributor | Reviews Albums | Location: Wroclaw | Page Views: 444 
About Me
A jazzophile, although open to all sort of cross-pollinations with rock, ambient, new classical.
So, jazz hasn't been an obvious choice for me, growing in a household committed to Dire Straits, Pink Floyd, Tangerine Dream, and Marillion. Being a teenager when the New Rock Revolution became "a thing" didn't make it easy either, unless I wanted to risk estrangement from friends and classmates. Also, jazz records aren't necessarily affordable, which might be the reason so many people below twenty turn to streaming Taylor Swift instead of putting John Zorn on and turning the volume up to 11 (just a guess, but I challenge popular music researchers to prove me wrong). While you can detect jazzier bits in early Floyd noodlings and Edgar Froese's meandering keyboard passages (not to mention 1970s' King Crimson and Mahavishnu Orchestra records), I like to think that it was the David Sylvian/Jon Hassell/David Torn axis that defined my preferences, progressively building upon them and expanding into adjacent areas and previous epochs - with autobiographies and books on jazz history becoming particularly useful in that regard. Today, most rock acts sound too predictable, their performances laser cut and timed like business pitches. Jazz, in comparison, feels like a vast, airy concourse where appointments can instantly turn into chance encounters, while planes somehow still arrive on time. Explain to me, how is that possible, and I'll find myself another genre. Until then...
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This page was last updated on 2026-04-30.
