top of page

 Title:             Kraków 2018

 By:                Barry Guy and Friends

​ Released:     2022

 Format:        5-CD box-set

 Catalog No:  MW-2 1031-2

 Price:            50 EUR

Preview excerpt from "For To End Yet Again"

Kraków 2018 by Barry Guy And Friends bix set cover

CD#1 Alchemia Club
1. Improv 1  28:52

(Lopez , dr// Mazur, el-b // Pursglove, tp)
2. Improv 2   07:01

(Lopez , dr// Mazur, el-b // Pursglove, tp)
3. Improv 3   07:52

(Aurora Trio:  Fernández, p  //  Guy, db  //  López,perc, cym) 

4. Improv 4   10:18

(Aurora Trio // Rasmussen,  sax)  

 

CD#2 Alchemia Club
1. Improv 1   05:00

(Vandermark, sax // Guy, db)
2. Improv 2   04:01

(Vandermark, sax // Guy, db)   
3. Improv 3   22:39

(Pursglove, tp // Vandermark, sax // Guy, db // Lytton, perc, cym) 
4. Improv 4   05:42

(Pursglove, tp // Vandermark, sax // Guy, db // Lytton, perc, cym

 

CD#3 Alchemia Club
1. Improv 1   33:27

(Snekkestad, sax, tp // Fernández, p // Guy, db)
2. Improv 2   08:23

(Guy, db // López, dr // Mazur, el-b)     
3. Improv 3   08:04

Guy // López // Mazur     
4. Improv 4   04:15

Guy // López // Mazur     

 

CD#4 Alchemia Club
1. Improv 1   04:09

(Vandermark, sax // Rasmussen, sax // Snekkestad, sax, tp) 
2. Improv 2   06:14

(Vandermark, sax // Rasmussen, sax // Snekkestad, sax, tp) 
3. Improv 3   06:16

(Vandermark, sax // Rasmussen, sax // Snekkestad, sax, tp)   
4. Improv 4   24:31

(Rasmussen, sax// Guy, db // Lytton, perc cym)      
5. Improv 5   16:06

(Rasmussen, sax// Guy, db // Lytton, perc cym)  // Fernández, p // Pursglove, tp)

 

CD#5 Radio Kraków
1. For To End Yet Again    57:32

(composed by Barry Guy, world premiere performance)

(Barry Guy - bass / director / composer
Maya Homburger - baroque violin
Agustí Fernández - piano 
Percy Pursglove - trumpet
Mette Rasmussen - saxophone 
Torben Snekkestad - saxophone and reed trumpet
Mats Gustafsson - saxophone
Liudas Mockūnas - saxophone
Rafał Mazur - electric bass
Paul Lytton - percussion
Ramón López - percussion)

 

Recorded:

October 11–12, 2018 at the Alchemia Club, Kraków 
October 13, 2018 at Radio Kraków
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Rafał Drewniany (dts studio). Design by Małgorzata Lipińska 


György Kurtág’s miniatures as they appear within “For To End Yet Again“: 
“Elegie”,  “Calmo Sognando”,  “Thus it Happened”,  “Hommage à J.S.B.”, “Doloroso”,  “In Memoriam László Mensáros”,  “... Féerie D’Automne”, “Hommage à John Cage”,  “Perpetuum Mobile”.

Tensegrity box-set cover

Barry Guy's Blue Shroud Band

Mad Dogs On The Loose  box-set cover

Barry Guy New Orchestra

Kraków 2020 by London Jazz Composers Orchestra box-set cover

Kraków 2020 by London Jazz Composers Orchestra

Mad Dogs box-set cover

Barry Guy New Orchestra

Not Two... but twenty box-set cover

Not Two... but twenty

Odes and Meditations for Cecil Taylor by Barry Guy's Blue Shroud Band box-set cover980

Odes and Meditations for Cecil Taylor by Barry Guy's Blue Shroud Band

bottom of page