Irka Zapolska Quartet - perception of preception (2023)

The band's compositions talk about perceiving reality through the prism of values and common opinions. It's a story about growing up and trying to look for one's own identity through the mirror. The adventure will be accompanied by a mysterious character and his journey through a surreal world full of paradoxes and grotesque figures. The textual layer of the songs is a dreamlike variation on the stories we know from childhood. It uses excerpts from Charles Lutwidge Dodgson's novel "Alice in Wonderland" and the absurd poem "Jabberwocky". By clashing with the successive adversities of the absurd world, it is an attempt to interpret the reality that surrounds us, hence the idea for the name of the album - "Perception of Preception".

The album contains five original compositions of the band. The creators of the music are Dominik Kisiel and Irka Zapolska. The singer of the band is the author of the lyrics. The pieces are based on open forms with improvised parts as well as fixed and arranged parts, thanks to which the form of the composition is similar to songs, but at the same time each of the musicians could express his own musical thought without any limitations. The creative idea is to juxtapose melodies and strictly arranged accompaniment parts with an open space for improvisation. Showing the instrumental possibilities of the human voice and creating an integral and equivalent sound with the rhythm section by using rhythmic, melodic, articulation and harmonics characteristic of contemporary, instrumental jazz music.