Martin Küchen, Rafal Mazur

Edition of 300 copies. All compositions by Martin Küchen and Rafał Mazur. Recorded live on March 6th, 2017 at BAZA Club, Krakow, Poland by Rafał Driewniany.
Born 1966 in Swe­den, Martin Kuchen plays alto-, te­nor-, so­pra­no-, and ba­ri­to­ne sa­xo­pho­ne. To­urs in­ter­na­tio­nal­ly wi­thin the fields of jazz and im­pro re­la­ted mu­sic.
Ra­fal Ma­zu­r’s in­vo­lve­ment with mu­sic be­gan in his youth with vio­lon­cel­lo stu­dies in Kra­kow. He swit­ched to bass gu­itar in the late 1980’s. Sin­ce 2000 he has play­ed an aco­ustic bass gu­itar bu­ilt to his own spe­ci­fi­ca­tions by lu­thier Je­rzy Wy­soc­ki. He has de­ve­lo­ped an ad­van­ced and in­di­vi­du­al ap­pro­ach to his in­stru­ment, and to im­pro­vi­sa­tion in ge­ne­ral, in which so­no­ri­ty, exten­ded tech­ni­que and ge­stu­re com­bi­ne ef­for­tles­sly in per­for­man­ce. He has ta­ken an im­por­tant role in Kra­ków to sup­port young ar­ti­sts and im­pro­vi­sed mu­sic.