YAZZBOT MAZUT

Yazzbot Mazut biography
Yazzbot Mazut is a Poznań-based band, which debuted as a quintet in 2008 with a warmly received concept album W pustyni i w puszczy. As musicians, they started from punk, hardcore, reggae and electronics, but it is the original rhythmic improvisation they have developed together for years that has become their main tool of communication and exploration. The core of the group consists of the guitarist Andrzej Szawara, bassist Szczepan Kopyt and drummer Piotr Kowalski. In autumn 2009, the clarinetist and keyboardist left the band and were replaced by a young saxophonist Lena Romul. In several months, new material was created. The album Mazut Mazut (May 2010), recorded during a two-day session in the Dragon club in Poznań, is a convincing and electrifying blend of styles, and at the same time the band's own and unique diction, through free jazz, free funk, recognizable echoes of the M-base, world music, neosoul, off-jazz and nu jazz, trip-hop and electro, jungle and dub, latino and afrobeat.

Yazzbot Mazut are worthy successors to the Polish avant-garde jazz "yass" scene.

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