'Brudna - Bielizna' marks the latest release from Polish quartet Kosmonauci whose hi-octane and multi-faceted depiction of contemporary jazz continues to breed fascinating results.
With the band's debut ('Sorry, nie tu LP') having been released in 2024, the Kosmonauts have wasted little time in getting back to the drawing board to concoct ideas for the imaginative experiments that would comprise album #2.
'Sorry, nie tu LP' quite quickly established Kosmonauci as a band that thrives upon the vast amount of influences that comprise each of their musical make-up as individual musicians and as a tightly-knit unit as a whole. With their music teaming with influences from jazz, hip-hop, improvisation and London's eclectic club culture driven sound, Kosmonauci have become incredibly adept at creating compositions that ingeniously infuse these elements together in a masterful presentation.
Latest album 'Brudna - Bielizna' encapsulates the band's approach perfectly, perhaps best via the combination of the unbridled explosiveness of 'SIEKA' that is immediately followed by the measured and tactfully paced 'Tabaluga'. Although these are two tracks that represent opposite ends of the scale very well, listeners learn quite quickly that Kosmonauci have a vast spectrum of music and sounds in which to dig deep within.
Comprised of saxophonist Miłosz Pieczonka, bassist Bartłomiej Lucjan, vibraphonist Tymon Kosma and Jan Pieniążek on drums, the quartet's union dates as far back at primary school with the joys of music discovery being something that the four friends would excitingly undergo together.
With the album's title 'Brudna - Bielizna' translating to 'dirty underwear', theirs is not just a closeness that is demonstrative through the personality they are able to convey through their music but also through the shared trust that each of their bold decisions will be understood and interpreted in kind.
And these are in fact "bold decisions". Musically, it's almost otherwordly how the album's ten tracks can present vast, cosmic-like soundscapes that afford the band to take their music in a litany of different directions: the sublime intricacies of 'Och! Proste : Trudne' makes for an early standout while the off-kilter patterns of 'Ostatni 2.0' reinvent everything that came before it.
'Brudna - Bielizna' proves an album that is an imaginative, playful yet brilliantly adept in its proficiency. A total joy!
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