Learn more about the band THE BLESSED BEAT

Sophisticated, extraordinary trialogue of experienced improvisers creating their trans-genre & tranversal musical collage inspired by Charles Bukowski ?s text ?The Copulating Mermaid Of Venice? with cover made by worldwide awarded artist Peter Koca?k.

They do not play to illustrate this novel, but to make real the various (im)possi- ble, rhizomatic connections between surprising sounds and tones ? only this way they can remind us tense atmosphere of this writer. However, first of all, The Blessed Beat tries to go beyond… ? not only beyond of this literary text, but beyond the space of binarities to find something ?in between them?.

The music here is either massive, uncompromising aggressive (in kind of poly- rhythmical and brutal sonic tsunami) or flowing sonoristically introverted, but you can feel and have a hunch that there is something more, which moves us to the otherness of unknown, adventurous, sometimes quite disquieting world where nothing is stable and expectable.

The specific immediate, instant, intuitive musical communication of David, Simone and Paolo can overlaps your expectations because they are able to ex- press ineffable meanings of something ?beyond and between?.

Slovakian guitarist and composer David Kollar has released nine expansive albums, scored 18 films and worked on many multimedia projects. His last recording, 2013?sThe Son, an atmospheric, emotionally-charged effort, received accolades from Guitar Moderne, France?s A Decovrir Absolument and the Czech and Slovak Radio Head awards. He?s also worked with Eivind Aarset, Pat Mastelotto, Gergo Borlai, Bjorn Charles Dreyer and Lenka Dusilova?.

Trumpeter Paolo Raineri takes his instrument and processes it in real-time to create ethereal, otherworldly sounds. The Italian musician combines Scandinavian nu-jazz influences with psychedelic rock, experimental and free improvisation in his award-winning Junkfood 4et. In addition, he performed with Stefano Battaglia, Berserk!, KoMaRa (w Pat Mastelotto), Baustelle, Calibro 35, Nada, Enrico Gabrielli and Tommaso Colliva.

Due to his versatility, Italian drummer Simone Cavina plays with many different musical projects, ranging from radical improvisation to avant rock, through jazz, funk and songwriting. His musical research is leading him through electroacustic and electronic music, allowing him to enlarge his musical inspiration and his drumming style in brand new territories. He played and collaborated, among others, with Junkfood 4et, Berserk!, Yuppie Flu, Iosonouncane, Incident on South Street, Stefano Battaglia, Luisa Cottifogli, Mauro Patricelli.

About MiV album:

Adam Baruch – SoundTrack of my life.
“Imaginary soundtracks are of course not a new idea and contemporary musicians are quite fond of this specific sub-genre, which if being used in Progressive Rock, Alternative Rock and Electronic / Ambient music. This album however completely disregards genre boundaries and being completely improvised based on a very loose pre-defined ideas, it is quite different from most other projects of this kind.
The music displays an amazing, almost telepathic level of communication between the three musicians, each working on his musical plane and all together creating a common virtual sonic reality. Of course Improvised Music, like this one, has a great advantage by constantly changing depending on the listener?s emotional and intellectual input at a specific moment. Therefore albums like this propose theoretically an infinite number of experiences over time.”…

Julius Fujak – Very hod candidate for the album of the year
“The music here is either massive, uncompromising aggressive (in kind of poly- rhythmical and brutal sonic tsunami) or flowing sonoristically introverted, but you can feel and have a hunch that there is something more, which moves us to the otherness of unknown, adventurous, sometimes quite disquieting world where nothing is stable and expectable.”

Jazz w Ruinach festival
“It was one of those concert that we?ll remember for a really long time. It was just a trio, but the sound was so powerful as if the whole orchestra was playing.
The blessed beat ? the name doesn?t explain much about what you can expect during their concert. But it would be very difficult to find appropriate words ? to find any words to prepare listeners for the music. You might say that the group?s music absorbs and reflects complex of music moods (jazz, electronic, improvised music) retaining en enviable individualism and high quality craftsmanship that can span from music creativity. But it?s just words . You just should have seen it and heard it for your own ears.”

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