Tatvamasi

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A Polish quartet performing instrumental rock music enhanced by the tenderness of jazz,dimmed with psychedelic mist, distored with tensions of underground. Music built on twisted riffs, seducing pulsations, intriguing improvisations, fictitious images, magical stories. Music of the third ear.

Grzegorz Lesiak

guitar, compositions

Tomasz Piątek

tenor sax

Łukasz Downar

bass guitar

Krzysztof Redas

drums

* NEW ALBUM *

HALDUR BILDUR
Audio Cave, CD/LP, 2019

Anna Witkowska-Piątek – violin,
Małgorzata Pietroń – cello,
Tomasz Piątek – tenor sax,
Jan Michalec – trumpet,
Grzegorz Lesiak – guitar,
Łukasz Downar – bass guitar,
Krzysztof Redas – drums,

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ALBUMS

Amor Fati, CD, Obuh 2017

Anna Witkowska - violin, Michał Ostrowski - violin, Małgorzata Pietroń - cello, Grzegorz Lesiak - guitar, Tomasz Piątek - tenor sax, Łukasz Downar - bass guitar, Krzysztof Redas - drums

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Dyliżans Siedmiu, CD, Audio Cave 2016

Grzegorz Lesiak - guitar, Tomasz Piątek - tenor sax, Łukasz Downar - bass guitar, Krzysztof Redas - drums.
featuring:
Yedo Gibson - saxes, Vasco Trilla - drums

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The House of Words, CD, Requiem 2015

Grzegorz Lesiak - guitar,
Jan Michalec - trumpet, Tomasz Piątek - tenor sax, Łukasz Downar - bass guitar, Krzysztof Redas - drums.

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Parts of the Entirety, CD, Cuneiform 2013

Grzegorz Lesiak - guitar, Tomasz Piątek - tenor sax, Łukasz Downar - bass guitar, Krzysztof Redas - drums.

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Special album

* LP ONLY *

DO ŚWITU GRALI - CZY TO WIADOMO JAKIE TAM GŁĘBINY PRZEPASTLIWE, OBUH, 2018

A long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away till dawn they played…
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Recorded by Grzegorz Furtak, may, 2000
Mastered by Wojcek Czern in Rogalów Analogowy
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Grzegorz Lesiak-guitar, Łukasz Downar-bass guitar,
Dariusz Rutkowski-flutes, percussion, Grzegorz Kondrasiuk-percussion,
Bartosz Łęczycki-harmonica, Marcin Kowalczuk-trombone,
Piotr Franaszek-percussion, Jacek Dejneka-double bass,
Hubert Mikos-gramophone, samplers, Tomasz Gąsior-drums,
Tomasz Kulbowski-word

"The music of Tatvamasi is completely unpredictable and every track brigs entirely different sounds and emotions. Such diversity has of course its advantages and is very interesting intellectually..." by Adam Baruch

"Tatvamasi is yet another iconoclastic, genre-hopping outfit. With the versatile talents of tenor. The group ploughs new musical furrows on Parts of the Entirety, framing its compositions around Slavic folk rhythms and melodic ornaments delivered with a rock attitude..." ... by Tom Greenland / The New York City Jazz Records

"Tatvamasi deals out all of modern jazz's best traits - playful performances, major/minor key ambivalence, asymmetric song shapes and the occasional art of the unlikely melody. It's the sound of things coming together. Better than The A-Team..." ... by John Garrat / Popmatters

"Admirers of fellow Cuneiform Records artists, Gutbucket and Led Bib or other groups embracing the jazz-rock and progressive rock genres may find a lot to get revved up about with the Polish quartet, Tatvamasi..." ... by Glenn Astarita / All About Jazz

"Tavtamasi have made a new thing, and it’s a good new thing. The textures are mostly in rhythm-section-plus-lead territory, and much of Parts Of The Entirety’s emotional power comes from the committed playing and engaged interactions of the musicians, but there’s a sense of adventure that departs completely from the procedural conservatism of most modern jazz . Yet another fabulously inventive and beautifully performed release from Cuneiform! " ... by Olivier Arditi

"Tatvamasi is very much in line with some of my other favorite recent releases (Dylan Ryan, Jason Robinson) as well as things from the past (Kilgore Trout, Stinkhorn). All in all, an outstanding set of music, and one I'm sure to revisit for years to come." ... by John Davis / Expose

"Every playing of the album opens new door. It becomes more and more interesting and clearer than at the first sight. I think that Tatvamasi commences to create its own musical genre and I am looking foward with great pleasure to their further steps..." ... by Alicja Cieloch / 5kilokultury.pl

curent projects

TATVAMASI
quartet

Our music for quartet: sax, guitar, bass guitar and drums. The material from all our albums plus new, crazy stuff.

TATVAMASI
strings and others

Our material from Amor Fati and Haldur Bildur albums with strings.

music of the third ear

Improvised music projects performed with guests. So far we have invited Vasco Trilla, Yedo Gibson, Luis Vicente, Martin Kuchen, Ivann Cruz, Peter Ornis, Jeremie Ternoy, Piotr Damasiewicz among others.

TATVAMASI