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Fields of Soul

by Julia Sawicka

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"...Two years after the record debut of "Breathing Space" there is a reason for deeper reflection and immersion for a longer time in the world of sounds of Julia Sawicka’s project. While the first mini-album was a kind of a calling card, a possibility of tasting the musicians’ sensitivity, feeling Julia Sawicka’s soft sensual voice and absorbing the spaciousness of music for a few moments, this time we have to do with a fully shaped, closed entirety. On "Breathing Space", Rosemary’s Lullaby by Krzysztof Komeda was perforce an element attracting attention. The band also presented some of their own compositions, which revealed that the musicians have great indwelling composing potential.
Yet, the new material may seem to be an even more pronounced obeisance towards the listener who is mostly into what they already know. And such a category includes the compositions on this disk. The main idea of the project is to be found in the subtitle "Unconventional interpretation of Sting’s noted tracks". If the word "unconventional" may raise some bad premonition – it is totally unnecessary. In this case it is about giving the selected Sting’s songs a common character, stipulating the area of impressive latitude and marking out the limits of dynamics. The climate of the music on this record is determined by the element of spaciousness.
In the opening recording Heavy Cloud, No Rain, the listener is tantalized by a piano part and the convention of singing in the style of jazz of the 1920s. Soon, however, we are moving into a spacious dimension of our contemporary times. Sting‘s compositions are released, by the band, of the corset of the song, leaving their melody, eliminating obtrusive repetitiveness of refrains, and above all surrounding them with jazz improvisations. Here the musicians’ instrumental talent came about, the rhythmical section cooperates superbly, and the pianists have the leading role.
Brilliantly sounds the piece Mad About You in the convention of reggae rhythmic, disturbed with a jazz bass line. A few great solos are ensured by the trumpeter Hans Peter Salentin, saxophonist Tomasz Pruchnicki and guitarist David Dorůžka. Julia Sawicka’s singing, with a hint of reflection and melancholy, is more and more appealing because the vocalist puts the main emphasis on her interpretation, phrasing subtleties, nuances of colour modelling. First of all, however, she succeeded in restraining the expressiveness imposed in original Sting’s recordings...".

Ryszard Gloger, Jazz Forum 1-2/2013

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released October 23, 2013

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