(Free Jazz) Ensemble 56 (Attila Dora, Rafal Mazur, Mieczyslaw Gorka) - 1st Meeting: Towards Sky Flight Of Dragon - 2008, FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

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Ensemble 56 / 1st Meeting: Towards Sky Flight Of Dragon
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The name of the group is based on a fragment of the "I-Cing" book LU - "The Wanderer". The wanderer's home is a road. Meeting various people on the road he has to contact them and work with them, independent of their roots and traditions. The music of Ensemble 56 is improvisational compositiosns emerging in "common space", between each musicians' experiences and preferences, uniting various stylistic elements in a "transidiomatic aesthetic".
Mieczyslaw Górka
One of the most famous polish drummer. He is co-founder of ensemble "Laboratorium" with which he played untill 1979. Among others he worked with Zbigniew Seifert and Czeslaw Niemen.
Attila Dóra
He had studied math and philosophy and graduated "buddhist teologian" in "The Gate of Knowledge" college in Budapest. Currently he plays on alto and tenorsax, prepared trumpet and build recycled sound installation with low-fi electronics. Since 2005 he is a guest teacher of Contemporary Dance Academy in Budapest.
Rafal Mazur
At present he plays acoustic bass guitars custom built to his own specifications by guitar maker Jerzy Wysocki. He is an organizer of series of presentation of spontaneous art in Kraków and "Meeting of Improvisers".

Attila Dora, Rafal Mazur and Mieczyslaw Gorka sought inspiration from the ancient Chinese book "The Wanderer" by I Ching in calling themselves Ensemble 56. They conceptualize the philosophy of strangers meeting and interacting through their music, all of which is improvised in real time.
Spontaneous, improvised music is an art in its own. Dora, Gorka and Mazur have transcended the ordinary to find an intuitive weave and give their music a presence of depth and dimension. The path is not always distinct, it becomes clear as they let their imaginations co-exist and divine the journey. Along the way come sweet surprises, tangy interludes and intense dialogue to give the music an earthy yet surreal quality. The trio has not tacked a name to the compositions. Numbers suffice, words are of little import.
Their empathy has grown through both live performances and two earlier recordings, and they lose no time in finding their dimension. Gorka sets it up with bright permutations, but that lasts only until Dora jumps in. He torques and squeezes his lines, letting them jump out and slam. He stops and starts to tongue slap accompanied by squiggles from Mazur's bass. They have now moved into the next stage, and in a complete change of direction. Dora is in the free zone, but he now ferments his ideas in a more pronounced vein. Space has been opened and worked judiciously with Mazur, as Gorka lightens the hue with his on percussion. The approach has been defined and balanced perfectly.
One of the hallmarks of the CD is the way in which dissonance and symmetry are complementary. Gorka's tonality and resonance illumine "5," and Dora is in consonance with the mood. But he gradually moves out of the pulse, shifting into high gear with Mazur rumbling down on the bass. Each stays within their boundaries, yet there is an assimilation of the individual streams which makes the flow gleam.
Spontaneous invention and a dynamic approach sing the sounds of Ensemble 56. The call is irresistible.
(Jerry D'Souza, All About Jazz)
These guys are as free as it gets, but full of soul and free improv leanings, and the trio's musicianship is just outstanding. They start in full force with fierce blowing and hard hitting over a non-explicit rhythm, then the trio moves into more organic sounds, playing with ambient bird songs on the second track. All three of them are a real pleasure to hear, with an unbelievable scope of technique, yet using this always in function of the musical project at hand, coherent and focused. These guys are good at the slow pieces, raw, natural, unbound by any constraints, blowing, plucking and hitting straight from the heart, giving this music a strange directness in its approach, and they are absolutely excellent in the more uptempo hypnotic rhythmic tracks, when Mazur's acoustic bass plays endless, almost tribal vamps with tiny variations and Górka's hard yet subtle drumming driving on Dóra's blowing into wild regions of our human subconscious, be it nighmarish or dreamlike, and anything in between.

Attila Dóra - alto & tenor saxes, G-clarinet
Rafal Mazur - acoustic bass guitar
Mieczyslaw Górka - drums, percussions