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The album A Leap Into the Dark by accordionist Peter Katina represents the world premiere recording of works by contemporary Israeli composers for solo accordion and with electronics, which were written from the initiative of the performer as a unique international project.
The album a sense of destiny by guitarist David Kollar and Norwegian trumpeter Arve Henriksen is the result of their long-term intensive collaboration. It brings extensive sonic fields, colourful sound collages and unusual rhythmic patterns, while their music flows in a special, magical space-time.
Alman
2012
album “Asta In Madrid”, 2019, Riga Room Records
The new Slovak formation Quasars Ensemble which has been focused on contemporary music and which receives a respect at the audience by its uncompromising dramaturgy and excellent interpretation approach now presents its album Contemporary Reflections with the works of important contemporary world composers as Sciarrino, Jarrell, Sørensen or Berio and the works of the ensemble leader Ivan Buffa as well. This recording offers an unique opportunity to know interesting contemporary compositional trends and new musical thoughts.
The new double album by guitarist David Kollar brings on its first disc entitled Crime On the Bunny robust guitar riffs supported by Pat Mastelotto's drums and Arve Henriksen's trumpet, as well as extensive ambient spaces of Kollar's field recordings. The second album 10 Poems for Ronroco is a free cycle of ten pieces, recorded on a specific string instrument ronroco, inspired by the lyrical poems of Valerij Kupka.
The Quasars Ensemble and mezzo-soprano Petra Noskaiová with their new recording prove that they perfectly master and overpass the barriers between different style periods of classical chamber music and contemporary music. The recording contains mainly the vocal works of Debussy, Mahler, Albrecht and Poulanc in impressive arrangements by Arnold Schönberg and the ensemble conductor Ivan Buffa.
The CD Preludes And Fugues Op.87 of Dmitri Shostakovich presented by accordionist Peter Katina brings a new vision of the monumental piano work composed by the classic author of the 20th century music and delivered in the refreshing sound form and with the original performing approach.
The Dust in the Groove project moves on the borders of jazz, experimental music, improvisation and contemporary music, while the original music by Radim Hanousek, the leader of this Czech ensemble, combines the sound possibilities of all these genres.
Duyên
2021
young Vietnamese jazz album co-produced by a guitar player Hoàng Tùng
Duševné vlastníctvo (Soul property) is a band of musicians Miloš Železňák, Samo Alexander, Jano Oriško and Erik Rothenstein. Their eponymous recording moves freely between different genres and, in addition to their brilliant jazz, experimental and improvised achievements, it also offers overlaps with world music from the Middle East and North Africa, as well as the fields of film and comprovised music.
Equation of time album from guitarist David Kollar in collaboration with the Hungarian pair of musicians Ádam Markó and Gergő Baranyi.
A unique duo of two young Polish musicians, clarinetist Szymon Klima and pianist Dominik Wania, brings on their album fantastico a collection of fascinating instrumental improvisations, filled with musicality, exceptional imagination and brilliant performance.
Flashing remains an unusually plastic creation of the present form of modern accordion, especially its sound and expressive possibilities.The dramaturgy is focused on the compositions of prominent Scandinavian composers (Per Nørgård, Arne Nordheim), these works are flashings in their diversity, „illuminating“ this instrument in unknown relations.
The sampler GROW. Music at an Exhibition from selected albums of the Hevhetia record label presents a musical response to the exhibition of art works entitled The Tree in Art exhibition in the Viennese Belvedere 2022-3, while offering a unique opportunity to discover new elements in the connection of music and nature.
A fusion of jazz Traditional Chinese Qingqiang Opera
The album Gombrowicz by Polish vocalist Anna Gadt and guitarist Marcin Olak represents a remarkable project which uniquely transforms in the performance selected texts by renowned writer Witold Gombrowicz.
Live album with archive recordings of improvised and comprovised music of Marián Varga and music group tEóRia OtraSu named by himself Hudobné happeningy - Musical happenings.
Illusion of a Separate World is the meeting between innovative Slovakian guitarist, film music composer and sound designer David Kollar (Steven Wilson, Pat Mastelotto, Fennesz, Marco Minnemann, Eivind Aarset) and Norwegian trumpet maestro Arve Henriksen. Shimmering soundscapes and haunting melodies mixed with soundtrack music, ethnic influences, electronic explorations, jazz hybrids, and post-rock riffs are at the core of this meeting.
The album Works for accordion has been an attractive excursion to the miscellaneous compositional world of composer Jozef Podprocký whose works for accordion extend from the reconstructed music of 17th century to the most contemporary trends. The album came into being after the mutual cooperation of the autor with the renowned accordionist Peter Katina who also took the initiative in the creation of this recording.
The Recording of live comprovised music to the first Slovakian black-white movie "Jánošík" (of Siakeľ brothers, 1921) by ensemble tEóRia OtraSu of Julo Fujak and Jan Kavan with legendary Czech songwriter and musician Vladimír Merta and singer Jana Lewitová (2004): Bonus is meddle from performance of music with the movie in House Fatra in Žilina (2006), the place of its first screening in Slovakia (1922), this time with violin virtuoso Stanislav Palúch. CDextra contains also divix video samples of the piece. Project was presented successfully since then also in film clubs in Leipzig (2009, D) and Barbican in London (2013, UK).
The electroacoustic album Klesajúce klenby is a duo project of Ján Boleslav Kladivo, a legendary persona of the Slovak alternative scene and enigmatic TJ Vjuga (literary-sonic pseudonym of Julo Fujak), who are moving on the boundary of differential sound arts, free improvisation and experimental music. On their recording there are continuously intertwined digital electronic and acoustic instrumental areas, which in mutual symbiosis create impressive ambient sound fields, referring to various contemporary (out) musical worlds.
Kolos
2016
The remarkable album Kolos presents a music conjunction of Jorgos Skolias, the Polish vocalist of Greek origin with his son Antonis, who plays drums and percussions. The recording is a combination of varied vocal elements of ethno, jazz and blues with modern sound of rich percussions and electronics spectrum.
Solo performance at the Enjoy Jazz Festival
The Blessed Beat is a project of Slovakian guitarist David Kollar, Italian drummer Simone Cavina and trumpet player Paolo Raineri. Borderless Color Blast, Cinematic Visionary Avant-Rock by band mates /KOMARA/ of King Crimson Drummer Pat Mastelotto. The Blessed Beat music absorbs and reflects complex of music moods (jazz, electronic, improvised music) retaining en enviable individualism and high quality craftsmanship that can span from music creativity. Band of three young generations artists who collaborated with musicians like Eivind Aarset, Bjorn Charles Dreyer, Berserk, Gergo Borlai, Lenka Dusilova, Tadeusz Sudnik, Pat Mastelotto from King Crimson.
The album Nenutits by the septet Uthando is released a year apart from its predecessor, from which it differs in a more mature compositional approach. The three-year deepening of the players' interplay has given rise to a specific musical intimacy that Nenutits reflects. At the same time, Nenutits represents the more serious face of Uthando, as the compositional ambition of the band members is concentrated in nine large-scale compositions. Here, free improvisation mingles with song form and composed sections, with the aim of each track being to make the three worlds as symbiotic as possible.
The Ukrainian singer Tasiya and pianist Sammy Lukas on their album New Old Fairytales offer not only distinctive arrangements of Ukrainian folk songs, but also the cycles of own songs, full of magical musical moments, written by Tasiya.
The album Notes From the Underground by David Kollar has been freely inspired by the famous Dostoyevsky novel and presents a great sound mosaic, made from the dark layers of experimental acoustic, electronic and ambient music, supported by the magic atmosphere of Paolo Raineri 's trumpet.
Polska
2019
R.M.X
2016
Remixes of previously released tracks from previous albums David Kollar, which can be purchased separately or as part of David's books of notes since 2005. The book is called Notes I. - Alchemy success and lost.
Raven
2015
The album of works by renowned Slovak composer Roman Berger brings a unique vocal-instrumental drama Korczak in memoriam, as a tribute to the Polish Jewish writer Janusz Korczak and also a remarkable chamber work Requiem da camera, both performed by members of the Quasars Ensemble.
The renowned Slovak Quasars Ensemble, that deals with classical and contemporary music with the same enthusiasm, brings on its latest album a prestigious chamber works by world classics Arnold Schoenberg and Paul Hindemth along with a remarkable work by the Slovak composer Alexander Albrecht. All in excellent performance and sound quality.
David Kollar and his solo album “Sculpting in Time“ (Hevhetia 2019) – extraordinary guitar player composing/sculpturing extraordinary music with exceptional collaborators: Erik Truffaz and Arve Henriksen (both trumpet), Christian Fennesz (guitar & electronics), Pat Mastelotto (drummer of King Crimson, this time even reading Pasternak´s poem…). This piece of musical art is inspired primarily by the poetics of legendary film director Andrey Tarkovsky in many explicit and implicit levels: nevertheless Kollar´s inclination to his movies (especially Stalker and Mirror) is not either accidental, neither conjectural, but significative. It is connected with inner energy of nostalgia, desire and constant searching for deeper sense of our unpredictable lives. His introspective musical compositions are an expression of questioning our the most hidden, burning existential tensions. Sometimes they sounds conciliatorily, sometimes very disquietly, gradually they will bring you over deeply inside, where you can find maybe something forgotten, but important ultimately evoking unusual catharsis...
The album Secrets by accordionist Peter Katina presents selected works of the world renowned composers of the late twentieth and a beginning of the twenty-first century, emanating a delicate, lyrical atmosphere, which are built upon detailed and sophisticated work with sound and colour.
The album The Son is a personal artistic statement of Prešov´s jazz guitarist David Kollar. It is an uncompromising artistic solo projects, which represent a synthesis of different genres and influences, from the results of cooperation with the Norwegian magician Eivind Aarset through the fragile, thoughtful guitar fantasies, full of philosophical introspection into music, up to the ambient, masterful electroacoustic work with modern achievements of the studio sound.
The international instrumental trio, which consists of the saxophone player Ján Kopčák (Slovakia), the guitar player Filip Gavranović (Montenegro) and the drummer Luis Oliveira (Brazil), was founded in 2013. Their new album The Cigarette After, brings a remarkable combination of melodic, experimental improvised music, combined with free jazz, ambient and minimalism.
The album The Long Bright Dark is the result of a collaboration between saxophonist Ján Kopčák and guitarist and multi-instrumentalist Pippo Corvino and their combination of acoustic and electronic music creates impressive atmospheric soundscapes.
A special album by a composer of contemporary unconventional music, in which the composition & comprovisation methods and the field sound-art recordings of various environments (the Adriatic Sea, the Piešťany Park, New Synagogue in Žilina, dilapidated sugar factory in Rimavská Sobota, etc.) are dialogically combined. Some of the pieces are freely inspired by the specific musical or intermedia works of Milan Adamčiak, Július Koller, La Monte Young and Marián Varga.
UTHANDO is LOVE. Love we seek, have, praise, lose, kill. Love permeates all aspects of life on this planet.
The album Unexpected Isolation by guitarist David Kollar and Norwegian trumpeter Arve Henriksen is a dark sound response to an unexpected coronacrisis, full of rough, industrial spaces and revealing sonoristic combinations.
The album voice 'n' drums represents a remarkable project of Polish vocalist Ania Rybacka and Danish drummer Stefan Pasborg, who comes with music fulfilled with imaginative immediacy and fresh colourfulness.
Warta
2021
The young guitar player David Kollar came through playing in many bands from Prešov and Košice. At his second album he succeeded to bring the stage spontaneity and interaction in frame of his dynamic trio. By the vigorousness of jazz-funk riffs and balladic ethereality he tends to the big beat roots with the notable ingredient of swing.
album “Yours Faithfully”, 2018, Riga Room Records
Natalia Kordiak second album YTINAMUH was released in April 2023 on LISTEN FOUNDATION and also received much praise from the international music press as a: “Album of the Year” (Donos Kulturalny, Jazzin.pl/PL), “A clear Masterpiece, and one of the best Polish improvised vocal records of all times!!!” (Maciej Lewenstein), “Natalia Kordiak focused on authenticity and spontaneity. Both of these words are terribly overused in writing about music - but how can you not use them here, since "Ytinamuh" realizes their simplest and deepest meaning.” (JAZZ FORUM Magazine, PL).
Zvony
2021
The album Zvony is a unique combination of folklore inspirations and field recordings of a special Slovak-Norwegian duo, which consists of fujara player Michaela Antalová and double bass and harmonium player Adrian Myhr.
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