Sakobi - Banzai! (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

SAKOBI is a new project of the Vilem Spilka Quartet. The band consists of Radek Zapadlo on saxophone, Vilem Spilka on double bass and Martin Kleibl on drums. Since they have been together for a long time in other ensembles, they are closely connected musically.

Radek Zapadlo has been successfully active on the Czech jazz scene for two dozen years, currently mostly alongside Matej Benko, Ondřej Ruml, plays in the Cotatcha Orchestra, his own formation Four in Blue and the aforementioned Vilém Spilka Quartet. After eight years at the Brno Philharmonic, Martin Kleibl oscillates in the genre range from classical to pop, plays in the OK Percussion duo with European-class marimbist Martin Opršál, accompanies singer Petr Bende and is the engine of the Vilém Spilka Quartet. For the sake of the SAKOBI project, Vilém Spilka replaced his main instrument, the guitar, with the double bass, which he began to use during the covid pandemic.

The trio's debut album is released by Bivak Records. All members participated in the album not only as players, but also as composers. Zapadlo contributed melancholic dumkou Journey Behind the Blue Sun, the song on the way of Martin Kleibl is on the contrary typical uplifting latin jazz. Vilém Spilka added the rest of the repertoire, his individual opuses reveal various musical and non – musical inspirations-from his native Brno to Japan, to which the cryptogram in the band's name also refers. The debut album bears the name Banzai in the spirit of Japanese realities! it's like a hurrah or a Yeehaw! Stylistically, the album is more or less unclassifiable, drawing on the traditions of jazz and other African-American styles, as well as folklore music not only from Moravia.

TRACKLIST

1. Sakobi - Kukaidó
2. Sakobi - Ve dne a V noci
3. Sakobi - Beguine aus brūnn
4. Sakobi - Hanácké gospel
5. Sakobi - Říšský funk
6. Sakobi - Cesta za modrým sluncem
7. Sakobi - Bulharský valčík
8. Sakobi - Na cestě
9. Sakobi - Velkomoravské blues
10. Sakobi - Autumn in new york



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