Guitarist Maciek Pysz joins forces with two French artists Davy Sur and David Amar to create expansive, open and poetic music developed in southern France and evoking the open spaces of Morocco: organic and raw, yet seeking introspection and ‘the spaces in-between’.
“We met fortuitously while attending a concert in Monaco in 2014. We exchanged our conceptions of life, our ways of thinking about music. It was an artistic love at first sight! We decided to meet again to create a musical workshop that would resonate with our ethics and to implement ground-breaking compositional techniques where everyone’s personality, poetic soul and sense of the nomadic blended in the same breath.
During the summer of 2015 we locked ourselves away for months in southern France to develop our ‘plainness in sound’ in rehearsal sessions. We had fun playing blindfolded, sometimes working in the open air, sometimes in town absorbing urban energy, all the time listening to the resonance behind every silence.
The result was Inwardness. Introspection, the space between sounds and inhabited silences are the roots of our inspiration. The music seeks to reflect the inner self that is in all things. The resulting songs have a raw and organic sound purity, as if they had been shaped by the seasons, a kaleidoscope where rhythmic melodies and sound textures collide and mingle.”
TOUR DATES​​​
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10/05 - CINEMA LE VOX - INWARDNESS - St Raphael, France
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11/05 - JARDIN DE LA COUPOLE - INWARDNESS - La Gaude, France
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12/07 - CHATEAU DE MOUANS SARTOUX - INWARDNESS - Mouans-Sartoux, France
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12/09 - OLIVER'S JAZZ - INWARDNESS - London, England
13/09 - OLIVER'S JAZZ - INWARDNESS - London, England
14/09 - PALM JAZZ DAYS FESTIVAL AT JAZZ CAFE POSK - INWARDNESS - London, England
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06/11 - PIEC ART - INWARDNESS - Krakow, Poland
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07/11 - PIEC ART - INWARDNESS - Krakow, Poland
08/11 - TARNOGORSKIE CENTRUM KULTURY - INWARDNESS - Tarnowskie Gory, Poland
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DISCOGRAPHY
PRESS
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Patrick Spanko (Skjazz.Sk, November 2018)
"Three unscripted, immersive pieces, across a full hour... This trio’s improvisations evolve both organically and patiently, their emotional reach potentially quite powerful..."
Adrian Pallant (London Jazz News, August 2017)
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"...subtly dynamic, ambient tone poems..."
Selwyn Harris (JazzWise Magazine, August 2017)
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“The ‘space jazz’ of Inwardness offers stunning music, open, both avant-garde and very accessible...”
Gilbert D’Alto (Le Jazzophone)
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"4 *" (Westzeit Magazine, May 2018)
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Review in Jazz Podium (Jazz Podium, June 2018)
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"The potential to unlock something powerful within listeners' hearts" (Adrian Pallant, London Jazz News, June 2018)
INWARDNESS - "SPACE JAZZ" (Ozella Music, OZ085, 2018)
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CONTACT | BOOKING
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Martine Croce - Autre Rivage martine.croce@autrerivage.com
+33 (0)6 81 25 37 12