Stanko, Tomasz * Balladyna (ECM Luminessence Series) [New LP] 11/17/17 "It's both a very personal

"It's both a very personal record

the album features a more transformative sound for the duo

collaborative effort focused on telling tales of the everyday that we often take for granted

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Stanko, Tomasz * Balladyna (ECM Luminessence Series) [New LP] 11/17/17 "It's both a very personalAn essential document of European jazz in the 1970s, and a recording that still sounds magnificent today, Balladyna exerted an enduring influence on successive generations of improvising musicians in Poland and Finland above all, though it also cast it's spell more widely. As Tomasz Stanko once said, "My international name was built on Balladyna." The quartet explores the seven originals on the album with a strong sense of rhythmic propulsion and