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Lamps. Clocks and Towers
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FREETIME
George Haslam Tarogato
Aida Mujačič Piano and Voice
Jozef Láska Contrabass and Bass Guitar.
Steve Hubback Percussion
The original Freetime Quartet – comprising Swetja, Josef Láska, Petr Zimak and George Haslam – was busy in Prague at the turn of the century, the name being the idea of Miloš Latislav, to be heard on SLAMCD 320, a collection of live recordings by the quartet with special guests.
The present group, although still based in Prague comprises musicians from Bosnia, Slovakia, Wales and England which came into being at the Free Jazz Festival in Prague in 2013 performing to a full house. Since then they have performed many concerts and tours in the Czech Republic in very different venues and festivals.
They continue to evolve through improvisations that embrace and explore elements of Folk, Rock, Jazz and contemporary music with their own identity and energy. This album introduces the new group recorded live in the legendary Absintový Klub in Ostrava, offering a fine example of Freetime's creativity.
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Tracks:
1 Here we go 16’15
2 Lamps, Clocks and Towers 3’24
3 In the domain of the Green Fairy 9’35
4 The Three Towers of Sedlec 7’38
5 The Astronomer and the Elk (For Tycho Brahe) 8’28
FREETIME with GEORGE HASLAM / STEVE HUBBACK / AIDA MUJACIC / JOZEF LASKA - Lamps, Clocks and Towers (Slam 334; UK) Freetime is George Haslam on taragato, Aida Mujacic on piano & voice, Jozef Laska on contrabass & bass guitar and Steve Hubback on percussion. This is a live recording from the Absinty Klub in Ostrava, in the Czech Republic. UK reeds player, George Haslam, keeps busy working with musicians from all over: South America, Italy, Portugal and Eastern Europe. For this quartet date, the only other musician here I know is percussionist & instrument-maker Steve Hubback, who has a dozen discs out on the FMR label. Since this recording takes place in the Czech Republic, I think that the other two musicians, Ms. Aida Mujacic & Jozef Laska, might be Czech. This is the second disc in a row in which Mr. Haslam plays exclusively taragato, a large clarinet-like instrument from Eastern Europe.
There are five songs on this disc and each one is titled with a folky/fairytale like theme. The opening piece, "Here We Go" has a sprawling, somber, spirit/free jazz flow or vibe. Ms. Mujacic is playing some sort of electric piano (Wurlitzer?) which has a most charming sound. The music has a quaint, older sound, somehow folk-themed yet free as well. Better known as a metal sculptor, drummer Steve Hubback plays mostly with mallets on his drum set and sounds superb, organic, ritualistic rhythms with a steam of simmering electric piano, acoustic bass and Haslam’s taragato snaking its way through dream-like flow. I realized by the time this disc ended that what I liked most about it was the overall dreamy vibe that flows throughout and the thoughtful low-key interaction between all four musicians. We are all dancing together gracefully and nobody ever steps on anyone else’s toes. - Bruce Lee Gallanter, DMG 29 January 2021. https://mail.aol.com/webmail-std/en-gb/suite
UK’s Slam Records continues to create new sounds and dimensions.
A concert at the Absity Klub, in the Czech Republic city of Ostrava during June of 2019 finds the team of George Haslam on the exotic reed instrument the tarogato, joined by pianist/vocalist Aida Mujacic, percussionist Steve Hubback and bassist Josef Laska. The team meanders for 16 minutes on "Here We Go", trudges through the traditional sounding "Lamps, Clocks and Towers" ruminates with voice and reed on "In The Domain of the Green Fairy" and pulsates for "The Tree Towers of Sedlec". A mix of folk tales, folk tones and walks through narrow lanes. https://www.jazzweekly.com/2021/01/a-pair-of-slamskasperi-sarikoski-3-1-usikin-oliver-duo/ by George W. Harris • January 18, 2021
Il sassofonista inglese George Haslam č qui al tarogato, uno strumento della tradizione ungherese che puň sembrare un incrocio fra un clarinetto ed un sax soprano. Come sempre ama girare per il mondo e suonare con musicisti che vengono da tradizioni e paesi diversi ma che sono bravi ad improvvisare. Con il Freetime Quartet era stato a Praga intorno all’anno 2000, ora di quel quartetto č rimasto soltanto Josef Láska al contrabbasso ed al basso elettrico, a completarlo ci sono oggi Aida Mujačič al pianoforte ed alla voce e Steve Hubback alle percussioni. Si erano ritrovati insieme al Free Jazz Festival a Praga nel 2013, poi l’attivitŕ č continuata portando nuovi elementi nella musica del gruppo, fra jazz, improvvisazione, folk, qualcosa di rock. La registrazione live č stata effettuata al Absintový Klub di Ostrava, come sempre Haslam č il catalizzatore del gruppo con le sue travolgenti improvvisazioni al tarogato, incisivo, pungente, trascinatore delle esecuzioni, qualunque sia la direzione in cui vanno. Č una musica eclettica che mostra un momento ispirato della band ripreso dal vivo.
Vittorio lo Conte http://www.musiczoom.it/?p=32113#.X6rvYmj7S1t 9 November 2020
GOOGLE TRANSLATE
The English saxophonist George Haslam is here at the tarogato, an instrument of the Hungarian tradition that may seem like a cross between a clarinet and a soprano sax. As always he loves traveling the world and playing with musicians who come from different traditions and countries but who are good at improvising. With the Freetime Quartet he had been in Prague around the year 2000, now only Josef Láska on double bass and electric bass is left of that quartet, to complete it today there are Aida Mujačič on piano and vocals and Steve Hubback on percussion. They met together at the Free Jazz Festival in Prague in 2013, then the activity continued bringing new elements to the group's music, including jazz, improvisation, folk, something rock. The live recording was made at the Absintový Klub in Ostrava, as always Haslam is the catalyst of the group with his overwhelming improvisations to the tarogato, incisive, pungent, driving force of the performances, whatever the direction in which they go. It is eclectic music that shows an inspired moment of the band shot live.
Il quartetto dei Freetime, si forma a Praga sul principio del 2000 con l’intento di girar a piů non posso sulle ali del credo impro.
Musicisti di diverse nazionalitŕ, che si ritrovano a maneggiare impulsi jazz, influssi etnici ed un tot di settanta in libertŕ.
Cinque composizioni, riprese dal vivo in quel di Ostrava nel 2019, dove energia, preparazione e passione, non vengon di certo a mancare.
Tarogato, percussioni, piano, voce e contrabbasso, che scalpitano e s’azzuffano con garbo.
L’insieme rimanda inevitabilmente al passato ma, un minimo di urgente contemporaneitŕ, par esser nelle loro corde.
Chi si ingrippa in incantatori grovigli, gode non poco.
Marco Carcasi https://www.kathodik.org/2020/10/23/freetime-lamps-clocks-and-towers/
GOOGLE TRANSLATE
The Freetime quartet was formed in Prague at the beginning of 2000 with the intention of spinning as hard as possible on the wings of the impro belief.
Musicians of different nationalities, who find themselves handling jazz impulses, ethnic influences and a total of seventy in freedom.
Five compositions, shot live in Ostrava in 2019, where energy, preparation and passion are certainly not lacking.
Tarogato, percussion, piano, voice and double bass, which paw and fight gracefully.
The whole inevitably refers to the past but, a minimum of urgent contemporaneity, seems to be in their strings.
Whoever gets entangled in entangled charmers enjoys not a little.
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