2024-01-25

As of 25 January 2024, METAMORPHOSES: VARIATIONS ON LUTOSŁAWSKI – ANAKLASIS bestselling title of 2023 – can also be purchased on vinyl records. The LP edition comes out on the 111th birthday of that composer, who was one of Poland’s most important 20th-century artists.

From his debut album Outside Sources (2004), Canadian bassist-composer Michael Bates felt that even contemporary open jazz constrains him, which he honestly admitted, saying that he takes inspiration from Miles just as willingly as from the noisy recordings of Bad Brains. It was from punk that he started his adventure with music composition and performance. He sailed into new waters with an album of Acrobat (a quintet led by Bates) daringly taking up the legacy and composition technique of Shostakovich (titled Music for, and by, Dmitri Shostakovich, 2011). From that project, it was already a short way to Bates’ discovery of one of Poland’s most significant 20th-century composers, Witold Lutosławski. 

Michael Bates’ arrangements of this composer’s works were premiered in a dazzling manner by the joint forces of Acrobat and Lutosławski Quartet during the New York edition of Jazztopad festival in June 2022. Several months later in Wrocław, the musicians met up again in order to record the music and thus preserve their fantastic adventure for the future generations.

METAMORPHOSES: VARIATIONS ON LUTOSŁAWSKI is part of our REVISIONS series, focusing on experimentation, revolutions, and boundary crossing and presenting the work of composers who come from different musical worlds, such as electronic and improvised music.

This album enjoyed the greatest popularity of all the ANAKLASIS titles sold last year. Now also on vinyl records, it is available from the PWM bookshop, the best music stores, and the empik.com online shop.
 

Media patrons: TVP Kultura, Program 2 Polskiego Radia, Culture.pl
Partner: Ruch Muzyczny

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