Kultikula by Kultikula

About KULTIKULA
The group set up in 1998. Before, the musicians had been meeting in various line-ups participating in miscellaneous experimental musical projects (REPORTAŻ, MANDALA, ORANGGE), recording soundtracks to Brothers Quay's films (under the composer Lech Jankowski's command), writing music to numerous theatre and radio performances (directed by Zbigniew Szumski, Lech Raczak, Stanisław Kuźnik, Waldemar Modestowicz and Wanda Różycka), working with the theatres such as TEATR ÓSMEGO DNIA, CINEMA from Michałowice, the NEW THEATRE and the POLISH THEATRE from Poznań, the OSTERWA THEATRE from Gorzów, the FREDRO THEATRE from Gniezno, as well as with international theatre groups (FOOTSBARN TRAVELLING THEATRE, TON UND KIRCHEN and KULTURETAGE from Oldenburg).

A unique session of improvising instrumentalists. Some of them are truly seminal personalities on the Polish improvised scene: Arnold Dąbrowski (Reportage, music to performances of Teatr Osmego Dnia), Lech Jankowski (scores to movies of brothers Quai "Instytut Benjamenta" i "Ulica Krokodyli"), Zbigniew Lowzyl (Nisani and KOD projects) or Andrzeh Trzeciak (Jorgi Quartet and Taklamakan Trio).

KUTIKULA project is a mature, rounded team improvisation of a multihued dimension.
Dimensions, combining different snippets, disintegrating surfaces, dramaturgy, suspense, intuitive cooperation. Improvised music sparkling with astonishing ideas and dazzling with erudite personalities of its main heroes.

reviews:
Machina - Cezary Gumiński
Because the first piece is called Kultikula, there must be some magic behind it. Indeed, the music is magic not only thanks to its sophisticated way of narration but also because of the electrifying dynamics of the recording. Eight people team of the keyboarder Arnold Dąbrowski (including percussion, violin, viola, trumpet and fagot) makes smoothly improvised modern music with ethnic and jazz highlights. A very ambitious undertaking, and despite amusing titles of particular pieces it is as a matter of fact dedicated to connoisseurs of alternative music in the widest meaning of the word.

Gazeta Wyborcza - Piotr Iwicki & Olaf Szewczyk
Never before has any album on our Polish market touched upon the Zorn-Ribbot esthetics as perceptibly as this record. Total approach to a very diversified instrumentarium, referring to the Far Eastern folklore, Arabic and Jewish music, all this makes this album very special. The world of synthetic sounds (synthesizers of Arnold Dąbrowski) and electric (guitar of Lech Jankowski) were unified with the acoustic world of percussion and classical instruments (among others violin and viola).

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