Rafal Mazur and Keir Neuringer
acoustic bass guitar and saxophone
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Mazur and Neuringer met in October 1999 at a drummerless jam session in one of Kraków's cellar jazz clubs and have been performing together in various formations ever since. They formed the free-jazz trio Stability Group in 2000, Infinity Quartet (with Ryan Zawel on trombone and Marek Choloniewski on electronics) in 2001, and co-founded an improvisation collective [i.e] that has connected many musicians internationally. Yet it is their duo that has been a primary force in their individual musical developments since 1999. Mazur and Neuringer share an intuitive sense of form developed in real time and in tandem with each other, and produce an extraordinary range of sonorities in light of the limited physical sound sources they use (acoustic bass guitar, occassionally bowed, and unamplified saxophone).
In their years of playing together they have moved between and within extremes of energy and restraint, opening up for audiences what is essentially a long-running dialogue between two close friends expressed in musical terms.
audio examples
22 April 2006 / Bunkier Sztuki / Krakow PL / 18'43 / full concert recording by Rafal Drewniany
Energy (for Michel) / with Diego Espinosa (drums) / june 2008 / Mediamatic / Amsterdam
25 April 2003 / Stara Synagoga / Krakow PL / 5'44 / concert excerpt recorded by Antoni Wojcik
A Turning Over / November 2001 / Stara Synagoga / Krakow PL / 4'45 / from the limited-edition cd-r release 'A Language Older Than Words'
selected performance history