Marcin Ciupidro / Talking Tree
MARCIN CIUPIDRO
Online Video
Jazz music community with review and forums
Marcin Ciupidro Talking Tree
This is the video for "Talking Tree" - the title song of Marcin Ciupidro's debut album. Release November/December 2013 by Unzipped Fly Records.
Video directed by Hubert Pokrandt
Marcin Ciupidro is a vibraphonist and composer active in the Wroclaw alternative scene. He has recorded with many bands across various styles - traditional music, improvised jazz and alternative rock (Robotobibok, Metamuzyka, Neurasja, Coldair).
Ciupidro's first solo album defies categorization. The point of departure is the contrast between the sound of acoustic instruments and synthesizers. But it is not a mere sound experiment - the compositions are based on subtle melodic themes, inspired by the minimal music's repetitive and superimposed rhythmic structures, creating sound spaces with the slowed down flow of time. All this, sometimes cut by a sharp free jazz explosion, creates an unusual, magical landscape.
Ciupidro guests on the record include the clarinetist Mateusz Rybicki, a prominent Japanese marimbist Shoko Sakai, bassist Zbigniew Kozera and drummers Hubert Zemler, Wojciech Romanowski and Marcin Rak.