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Tracklist

  1. 01At Last
  2. 02So What
  3. 03Cantaloupe Island
  4. 04Take Five
  5. 05Blue Bossa
Double Standards
21. Juni 2024Released
XJM24008

Kristjan Randalu & Bodek Janke

Double Standards

Digital / EP · XJM24008 · ~23:00

The musical partnership between Estonian pianist Kristjan Randalu and Polish drummer Bodek Janke reaches back more than three decades, to the school-day bands they formed together. They have collaborated in many constellations ever since and appear together on ten albums. „Double Standards“ is the duo's first recorded statement since their 2008 live album. On the EP the two approach a set of jazz standards from an angular perspective, dissecting familiar melodies and changes with transfigured time signatures, playful polyrhythms and deep musical intimacy. „At Last“ is given an elastic groove; Miles Davis's „So What“ sheds its cool-jazz sheen and is re-assembled; Herbie Hancock's „Cantaloupe Island“ unfolds in nine; and „Take Five“ toys with quintuplets before the title-lending 5/4 arrives. The closing „Blue Bossa“ was tracked in 2020, when playing in the same room was near-impossible – the whole project was recorded remotely, a fact that only underscores the flowing interplay of two long-trusted musicians.

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Kristjan Randalu & Bodek Janke

Jazz / Improvisation / Folk

Kristjan Randalu & Bodek Janke

Estonian pianist Kristjan Randalu and Polish drummer Bodek Janke, partners for three decades, reinvent jazz standards with angular time signatures and deep interplay on Double Standard.

The musical partnership between Estonian pianist Kristjan Randalu and Polish drummer Bodek Janke reaches back over three decades, to their school days when the two formed their first bands together. They have collaborated in various constellations ever since, appearing on ten albums and combining jazz and other improvisational idioms with a range of folkloric traditions in displays of, as JazzTimes put it, "visceral excitement and engrossing interplay." Their EP "Double Standard" is the first recorded document of the duo's craft since their 2008 live album. On it, Randalu and Janke explore a set of jazz standards from an angular perspective, dissecting familiar melodies and changes with transfigured time signatures, playful polyrhythms and the deep musical intimacy they have developed over many years - from "At Last" and Miles Davis's "So What" to Herbie Hancock's "Cantaloupe Island," Paul Desmond's "Take Five" and a closing "Blue Bossa." Recorded remotely in 2020, when playing in the same room was nearly impossible, the EP testifies to two protagonists who, even across distance, create complex, flowing interplay that amounts to far more than the sum of its parts.

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