Flugery L'vova - Day 1 - Especial Projects

The Festival was opened by the band «The Pol.E.Trio».  It’s the project of the pianist Yuriy  Seredin and  it was joined by the guitarist Alex Maksymiv & drummer Igor Hnydyn, known mostly  as a musician of  the group «SchockolaD».   The Trio performed  a wonderful set of jazz-contemporary to be intricate as concerning  melody &  rhythmic structures and  with soft sound.  However, such like music would have been appreciated better if it sounded in the evening twilight or in a cozy club where people are intended to listen.  So, it seemed to be too intellectual for our joyful & thirsty  for entertainments audience .

The «Zbigniew Wrombel - Janusz Szrom Projekt»  was the third and the musicians represented the International Jazz Workshop in  Hodzyezh (Poland).  Despite indicted in the title  the names of  only two musicians (bassist & respectively - vocalist)  it was actually the quartet. The Project was joined by keys and drums. They demonstrated an excellent example of  fusion to be played  without guitars. The musicians presented their own arrangements of the 60th -  80th Polish Stage parades. They combined jazz, rock and pop in equal proportions despite their quite jazz cast.  The light popular melodies were performed by the vocalist sometimes like in Jamiroquai  manner and sometimes he implemented his heart-rending  rock falsetto and  his stage behavior made you to  remember the old boy Elvis.  The bass echoed him in unison appealing  to hard-rock traditions  and any rock group would be happy to secure for itself such a drummer as our was. From time to time the jazz nature of the Project exhibited itself but only a few times, gently, as if not to be bore. They seemed even to surpassed their previous fellows as concerning the drive-tension.   But if the «Port Przemysl»  drive was severe & commoner, the Project’s one  - metrosexual & club.

The last performance. It was the Project "DrumTyAtr" by  Hrytsko Semenchuk and Yurko Izdryk  in collaboration with the band "Amsterdam" – Andriy Voityuk (drums), Kyryl  Abramov (keys) and  Alex Maksymiv (guitar), he lives in Amsterdam & that was his second performance in that day. The fans of actions, happenings, performances and all such like springs of contemporary art at last had the feast: the performance was almost a pure impromptu as the gentlemen had only one rehearsal  before the concert. Semenchuk “launched”  from his  laptop the  psychedelic samples and read his poems,  Izdryk , replacing,   read his own texts accompanied by a modified mandolin (with nylon guitar strings and a pickup from electric guitar) and "amsterdammers" accompanied the both as they like.  The best one who has managed to catch the essence of the process was Voytyuk, he very harmoniously joined Semenchuk’s samples,   but Maksymiv had no luck for a  long time: just only nearly to the  the end of the performance his instrument awoke  and that was a real mass!  If the previous bands were accepted by the audience  more or less unanimously, that one divided the listeners into two parts. The first ones gripped their heads and departed, the others melted from pleasure and wrote messages to Semenchuk  "I want a baby from you”. Well, the lovers of "polished” concerts were disappointed but the fans of experiments got the top-experimental  jam session.

After such an ambiguous end of the first Festival’s day  the audience went home  for a short sleep –  in the morning an unusual wake up was prognosticated – “Get Up with Mertvyj Piven”.