Undivided - The Passion (2010) torrent

Multikulti Project: MPI011
http://www.multikulti.com/undivided-waclaw-zimpel-bobby-few-mark-tokar-klaus-kugel.html



* Wacław Zimpel : clarinet, bass clarinet, tarogato, percussion
* Bobby Few : piano, percussion
* Mark Tokar : double bass, percussion
* Klaus Kugel : drums, percussion

http://www.undivided.inemu.com/
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/undivided-mn0001970906

http://www.waclawzimpel.pl/
http://www.bobby-few.com/
http://www.marktokar.info/
http://www.klauskugel.com/

Recorded live at Dwór Artusa, Toruń, Poland on April 8, 2009.
Engineered by Klaus Kugel.
Reviews


By Ken Waxman
http://www.thewholenote.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9508:something-in-the-air-global-combos&catid=51:jazzaimprovised&Itemid=178

A similarly impressive global quartet is made up of Polish woodwind player
Waclaw Zimpel, Ukrainian bassist Mark Tokar, German drummer Klaus Kugel and
American pianist Bobby Few. Undivided - The Passion (Multikulti MPI 011
www.multkulti.com) is literally that, a modern re-imaging of Christ’s suffering
and death. Lacking vocals or religious motifs, the seven-part suite is not
overtly spiritual but musically superlative. A veteran of playing in churches,
nightclubs and with spiritual jazz avatar Albert Ayler, Few takes naturally to
the theme and throughout lets his frenetic chording and dynamic voicing create
fantasias of their own. Clustered notes cascade like waterfalls or singular
timbres are starkly outlined. Kugel’s steady clanks and cogwheel ratcheting is
added to regular cymbal splashes as well as drum drags and ruffs for versatile
percussion backup. Tokar’s perfectly balanced string slaps are mostly in the
background, except when marking theme variations and transitions. Whether it’s
with two-fisted piano clusters, spiccato runs or door-knocking thumps, each of
the three cleanly intersects with Zimpel, who is equally expressive on
clarinet, bass clarinet and tárogató, a Hungarian-invented saxophone
cousin. Appropriately intense, Way of the Cross/Crucifixion/Death finds the
reedist spitting out pressurized glossolalia, reed bites and emotional split
tones as his solo varies from stopped silences to shrill
speaking-in-tongues. Around him in a broken-octave concord are buzzing bass
lines, vibrating drum tops and gospel-inflected processional chords from the
pianist.

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By Stef
http://www.freejazzblog.org/2010/04/unidivide-passion-multikulti-2010.html

Happy New Ears Award 2010
http://www.freejazzblog.org/2010/12/happy-new-ears-award-2010.html

By Francesco Martinelli
http://www.pointofdeparture.org/PoD32/PoD32MoreMoments6.html

By Jazzowy Alchemik
http://www.jazzalchemist.blogspot.com/2011/04/something-to-listen-today-passion-in.html

Guy Peters (nl)
http://www.enola.be/muziek/albums/8886:waclaw-zimpel-a-co--3-x-multikulti

Joachim Ceulemans (nl)
http://www.kwadratuur.be/cdbesprekingen/detail/undivided_-_the_passion

Por Marcelo Morales (es)
http://elintruso.com/2011/04/06/undivided-the-passion/