Ken Vandermark - clarinet bb & tenor saxophone
Mikołaj Trzaska - alto, bariton saxophones & bass clarinet
Michał Górczyński - clarient bb, bass clarinet, contrabass clarinet

All compositions by Górczyński/Trzaska/Vandermark
Recording by Jan Galbas in Highwave Studio, Gdynia, 26 February 2018

Ircha trio upgraded to international level and the explicit
use of saxophones. Exquisite record, showing
again that Trzaska, Górczynski and Vandermark play in
the same league. There are three very different musicians
here: there is Ken Vandermark, with his free-jazz
free-punk approach, there is Mikołaj Trzaska with his version
of free jazz combined with Slavonic drama and sad
reflection, and there is Michal Górczynski with his free
improvised folk and Jewish klezmer roots.

The results of this superposition/mixture are spectacular!
The set starts with a wonderful collective improvisation
"Departure of the Birds". The second "Radio Waltz" is
a minimalist tune with long sounds and phrases played in
the rst half, and with more open fragmented triologues
in the second. "Field of Cane" has a fantastic lines of the
contrabass clarinet. "Sand" is another slow, ballad like
track. Again, the work of bass and contrabass clarinets
is here spectacular.

"Another Broken Bench" is a track with a great theme,
remaining me of some songs of the World Saxophone
Quartet. In contrast, "Detail in the Air - Below a Frozen
Bridge" is very different. It is a fragmented track led by
the clarinet, and organized around a complex theme and
collective clarinets improvisations. "Sees Seas Seize" is also
a fragmented tune, but in a sense more coherent. I dig
"Leather Static" for its amazing collective reading of the
main theme. "The Taste of Paper" is a hymn-ballad, on
which the clarinets behave like a one coherent organism.
The set closes with"Calling from a Wooden Phone", another
masterpiece of triologue. Difficult and complex record,
but clearly extremely interesting for any possible fan of
this kind of music. Mikołaj Trzaska is there, once more!!!

-Ma.......
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Muzyka zawarta na Open Containers dokumentuje pierwsze spotkanie trójki muzyków. Do współpracujących ze sobą od wielu lat, wybitnych improwizatorów Kena Vandermarka oraz Mikołaja Trzaski dołączył tu wybitny klarnecista - Michał Górczyński. To saksofonowo-klarnetowe trio, wykorzystujące oryginalne brzmienia saksofonu barytonowego, klarnetu basowego i klarnetu kontrabasowego. Dzięki unikalnemu instrumentarium muzycy uzyskali interesujące brzmienia, a tym samym stworzyli nową jakości w muzyce improwizowanej.