The trio is a perfect composition for broadly understood improvised music, sufficient in terms of minimum and generally reflecting to the maximum what the musicians want to convey to the listener. In the case of the Wrocław-based trio Marek Otwinowski, Michał Sikorski and Marcin Witkowski, this "width" of understanding improvisation is particularly visible. This is not a classic free-jazz band or even free-improv, because the musicians go far beyond these frames, touching noise, avant-garde, industrial or even metal. This music, radical in content and form, so fascinated the two titans of the improvised music scene, Mikołaj Trzaska and Jerzy Mazzoll, that when asked only to arrange the original order of the vinyl version independently of each other, they also decided to create their own, 5-minute "deconstructive" interpretations of this album, recently released on 7-inch vinyl and this is how they write about this album: "The scorched earth ("Spalona ziemia") is not as scorched as it might seem, I would say that it is burning or even hot earth. Their music is a picture, a reportage from the very beginning of the formation of the "silver globe", when billions of years ago it was thrown out of Out of space, a lump of hot lava turned into a ball; it cooled down to become a mega-organism on which life developed for eons, unhurriedly and in community. - Mikołaj TRZASKA
The musicians co-created various independent and experimental music formations, including: BigRip, Karbido, Progrram, Kormorany, Rheino de Rotten, Pieśni Piękne, with which they played many concerts in Poland, Europe and around the world, and took part in the recording of nearly twenty albums.
Marek Otwinowski (maot) - bass player, improviser, composer, producer; author of theater music and radio dramas; co-founder of the Karbido artistic group (2003-) and co-author of all its works - awarded and presented around the world. Musician of the Swiss trio Rheino de Rotten; co-author of the series Music 4 buildings (2009-). On a daily basis, a graphic designer, author of theater scripts and translations of Ukrainian poetry.
Michał Sikorski - clarinetist and multi-instrumentalist, improviser associated with the European improv scene. Founder of the BigRip formation, performer of numerous solo performances and live act shows. Organizer of concerts and music events centered around the EXIT Contemporary Art Gallery, of which he is the curator. Artist working in the field of new media, painter, professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław. Author of many individual and group exhibitions.
Marcin Witkowski - musician, drummer, multi-instrumentalist, arranger and performer. He has been active on the experimental music scene in Poland and abroad for nearly 30 years. Performer and co-composer of music for many projects and theatrical performances. Author of innovative playing methods and unique preparations of electro-acoustic and electronic instruments. musician, among others Kormorany, Pieśń Piękna, Zoubek/Cruz/Witkowski. He also implements his solo project Witkowski mono.
