Astigmatic
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Astigmatic is an album recorded in 1965 and released in 1966 by the quintet of Krzysztof Komeda . It is widely considered to be the most important album in the history of Polish jazz .
history
Astigmatic was recorded in Warsaw in early December 1965 and published the following year by MUZA Polskie Nagrania as part of the Polish Jazz series. It is considered a high point of Krzysztof Komeda's work and his “ Slavic ” jazz, which is characterized by the emphasis on the lyrical and the dramatic. All compositions are from Komeda. They had already been presented at the Jazz Jamboree '65.
The band consisted of Komeda's regular employees at the time, Tomasz Stańko (who later became the central figure of the Polish jazz scene) and Rune Carlsson , as well as the two guests Günter Lenz and Zbigniew Namysłowski .
The creation of the album was described by the involved Zbigniew Namysłowski as quite chaotic. It was practically created within one night.
The song Svantetic is an homage to Svante Foerster , with whom Komeda was friends. Kattorna was originally formed as film music for the eponymous feature film by Henning Carlsen written.
The album represented a certain turning point in Komeda's oeuvre, which then increasingly focused on composing film music, often in collaboration with Roman Polański .
Track list
All compositions are by Krzysztof Komeda .
- page 1
- 1. Astigmatic - 23:07
- Page 2
- 2. Kattorna - 7:32
- 3. Svantetic - 16:02
reception
In the cover text of the original record, the well-known musician and music critic Adam Sławiński praised the innovative quality of the album. He pointed out the special structure of the songs as well as the combination of “Slavic-lyrical” on the one hand and jazz rhythm and “sound” that is typical for Komeda. According to Sławiński, Komeda successfully combined elements of modern compositional technique (such as aleatoric structures or clusters ) with older forms (such as modalism ) in his compositions .
The album is considered to be the most important in Polish jazz history in Poland. So it was u. a. Voted “best album of all time” by the readers of Jazz Forum magazine . In a compilation of the most important Polish jazz albums in the same magazine, based on the assessments of 50 music critics, Astigmatic came out on top by a large margin. At the same time it is sometimes seen as a milestone in the development of a specifically European jazz language.
Komeda's own language, which was particularly prominent on Astigmatic , is often emphasized, in which he combined elements of traditional Polish music with modern jazz, including influences from free jazz . One of Komeda's great achievements was that he wrote entire games specifically for his bandmates, especially Stańko and Namysłowski.
In a text about Komeda on the Polish jazz portal Jazzarium , Astigmatic was compared with important ECM works by Keith Jarrett , Jan Garbareks and Charles Lloyd .
The songs from Astigmatic have been interpreted several times by other Polish jazz musicians, including Urszula Dudziak , Michał Urbaniak , Tomasz Stańko and Leszek Możdżer .
The title of one of the most important albums on the Polish yass scene, Asthmatic by the band Miłość , was an ironic allusion to Astigmatic .
The magazine Jazzwise chose Astigmatic at number 85 in the list The 100 Jazz Albums That Shook the World .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Możdżers Komeda. JazzPages, August 10, 2011, accessed May 4, 2015 .
- ↑ a b c d Bogdan Chmura: Krzysztof Komeda - "Astigmatic". (No longer available online.) Onet.pl, July 26, 2004, archived from the original on December 13, 2014 ; Retrieved on May 4, 2015 (Polish). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b Cover text of the original edition by Adam Sławiński.
- ↑ a b c "Astigmatic" - Krzysztof Komeda Quintet. JazzPRESS, June 6, 2011, accessed May 4, 2015 (Polish).
- ↑ Cattorna - Forbidden Caresses in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- ↑ Polski Jazz - Top Wszech Czasów. Jazz Forum, accessed May 10, 2020 (Polish).
- ↑ Stuart Nicholson: Krzysztof Komeda: Astigmatic. (No longer available online.) Jazz.com, archived from the original on April 30, 2011 ; accessed on May 4, 2015 .
- ↑ Empik Jazz Club vol 5 .: Krzysztof Komeda. jazzarium.pl, accessed on May 4, 2015 (Polish).
- ↑ Sebastian Rerak: Chłepcąc ciekły hel - Historia Yassu . AKuKu Sztuka, Gdynia 2012, ISBN 978-83-925374-1-0 , p. 272 .
- ↑ The 100 Jazz Albums That Shook The World on jazzwisemagazine.com (accessed June 20, 2018)
