Monday 14 September 2020

Polish sax player Namyslowski, again in the ST, 1978, and Air Condition, 1981






I posted his Jasmine Lady album, back here, hopefully there are those who remember the name.
His discography can be found here.  Note that he played in the Klaus Lenz grouping, which I posted too a few times (most recently here, the amazing Sleepless Nights).  He was also in the superb hard-fusion Swedish band Pop Workshop which created two masterpieces of fusioneering space travel in the early 70s.  Get those if you don't already have.  Their Song of the Pterodactyl is absolutely priceless.

His 1981 Air Condition album was a bit too fuzackyish, though it led to 2 other albums from the same grouping (the LP title led to the artist name), and those are both really good and well worth seeking out for the fusion fan.
But the ST Namylovski (with a v) from 1978 is just amazing.   Some songs were recycled from the 'with strings' predecessor 1977 with 'w' album, which was reissued and is easy to find, with arrangements by Zbigniew.

The astonishing Time Passing track, or Passage of Time, just throws me off the earth with its chromatic and intriguing, utterly unique chord changes that seem to flow from one planet to another, but with such beauty, never mind the utterly priceless electric piano intro section that to me blows away the majority of what Chick and Herbie ever wrote (pianist is Slawomir Kulpowicz, not familiar with the name at all, others for sure can enlighten us).  It's difficult for me to even identify or discern most of the specific chords in there. The sax melody flows so smoothly over the shifting chords underneath, it just amazes me:





5 comments:

  1. https://www.sendspace.com/file/wn3qif

    https://www78.zippyshare.com/v/kjHD6REP/file.html

    sorry not my rips, but many many thanks to the original jack the ripper

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  2. ...there's a great newish album by Namyslowksi called "Assymerty". It's flying around internet somewhere. Highly recommended!

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  3. And now to something completely different: Do you have Absolute Zero: The Definitive Collection? Don´t you think the prog /thrash thing is something to explore ?

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    1. I used to love it in the nineties when I got into alternative and then death metal (Cannibal Corpse!) but I guess I'm too old for that now
      https://www.sendspace.com/file/w63rzr

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  4. Thanks Julian. I've got rips of 'Winobranie' (1973) and 'Kujawiak Goes Funky' (1975) if you'd like those?

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