By skyforbes 
Polish bassist, composer, and bandleader Wojtek Mazolewski is best known as the driving force behind the internationally acclaimed Wojtek Mazolewski Quintet. Mazolewski plays double bass, vocal, guitar, flute, and percussion on this album, with special guests harpist Marysia Osu, vocalist Matylda Sokołowska, percussionist Józef Rusinowski, and electronics by Wojtek Urbański.
The record was co-produced by platinum producer and film composer Wojtek Urbanski and mastered by Grammy winner Ben Rawlins.
Mazolewski’s quartet’s album, ‘Polka’, went platinum in Poland and was named one of the five best jazz records of the year by DownBeat, as well as earning high praise from BBC Radio 6 Music, Jazz FM, Jazzwise, Worldwide FM, NTS, The Wire, and more.
This album is profound in its lyricism and in the placement of the double bass at the center, while also incorporating other instruments that add support and, at times, create atmospheres into which the rich tones of the bass drop.
Tracks of note include the powerful menace of ‘Monada,’ developed from the deep guttural body of the bass’s vibrating strings. The effective use of pizzicato at the same time as drawing the bow across the other strings creates a beautiful effect, while the throaty singing of the deep male voice after the middle half increases…