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Notre Dame

by Krzysztof Kobyliński

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1.
Dance Of Monsters 04:24
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2.
Leen 04:19
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3.
Impression D-major 04:55
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4.
Melody e-minor 06:13
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5.
Notre Dame 04:50
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6.
Pink Year 05:37
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7.
Sagrada Familia 07:40
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8.
The Moon 04:48
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Actually, two pianists play together here. Even if they don't both play the piano.

When one calls Krzysztof Kobylínski from Gliwice, Republic of Poland, a composer and jazz pianist, he is generally quite content with this abbreviation. Now, jazz musicians are usually particularly broad-minded when it comes to their stylistic preferences. For Krzysztof Kobylínski, it should at least be noted that genre barriers do not exist in his music; that he cultivates a subtle, subtle and sometimes somewhat melancholy approach to all the material that influences him; and that he has worked with many internationally renowned jazz musicians. Small, chamber music formations, the smallest of which is the duo, are particularly close to his heart.

Daniele di Bonaventura, from Fermo in the central Italian region of Marche, played piano and keyboard from an early age and later studied piano and composition at the conservatory. He grew up with the music of the pop group Genesis as well as Verdi and Puccini and came into contact with jazz in music venues in the region. All this has left its mark. At some point, the piano was too fixed for him, his free spirit was looking for something new, and via a diversion in an Argentinian film with Astor Piazzolla, the bandoneon entered his musical life.

In Daniele di Bonaventura, Krzysztof Kobylínski has found a duo partner who comments on and intensifies his fragile, fragile-lyrical style from the bandoneon. At times, the two come so close to each other sonically that the characteristics of their instruments only seem to emerge from the sound they produce together. Kobylínski sketches out a work of lines and a harmonic subsoil in hints, Bonaventura enlivens, enriches and fills the structure with the murmuring, singing breath of his instrument. Or Bonaventura sets in with a lively rhythmic action and is pointed out by Kobylínski to the richness of what he himself has just put into the world. Sometimes the two are very close, then again they start from different places and end up in the same place.

In some respects, "Notre Dame" is a continuation of Kobylínski's duo album "Give Me November" with the French trumpeter Erik Truffaz; what both have in common is that a breathing instrument can be experienced alongside the piano.

Continuation, however, means that new directions and approaches are found, especially in the interpretation of pieces with the same title: the opening piece "Pink Year", the overcast "Moon II" and the haunting "Sagrada Familia II" make direct reference to the duo project with Truffaz and allow the friction and closeness of the piano-bandoneon duo to be experienced all the more clearly.

And "Notre Dame"? Like "Sagrada Familia II", the Holy Family, is not only meant architecturally. It is not about designing a musical cathedral, but it is about something very enduring. Namely, something that could be described with the word "holy", which today is easily suspected of being kitsch. Perhaps the Catholic Poland of his origins plays a formative role for Kobylínski - but certainly not in an institutional and restrictive political form. It is less about stony worlds of the sacred than about a spiritual content. It is about how one listens, how one breathes, where one looks and how one engages. It's about how you can shape and experience transcendence in and with music.

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released December 13, 2020

Krzysztof Kobylínski - piano
Daniele di Bonaventura - bandoneon

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Krzysztof Kobyliński Poland

Krzysztof Kobylinksi uses modern electronica, which gives him the opportunity to explore completely new artistic territories. He composes mainly in his head, sometimes on the piano, and processes the results on the computer.

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