καλός
Mladi Raziskovalci V. — Oskar Longyka — καλός
ĸαλός Α’ (30:30)
Oskar Longyka (violin)
Alberto Mastracci (viola)
Tobias Kochseder (bandoneon)
Jure Bergant (piano)
Composition by Oskar Longyka, Alberto Mastracci, Tobias Kochseder and Jure Bergant
The music was created during the festival workshop Mladi raziskovalci V. / Young Researchers V. mentored by Dré A. Hočevar.
Recorded at the 27th Jazz Cerkno festival on 20th May 2022
Recorded by Iztok Zupan
Mix and mastering by Dave Darlington
Produced by Dré A. Hočevar.
Design by Tajda Pavletič
Liner notes by Oskar Longyka
Released by Jazz Cerkno Records in coproduction with .abeceda Institute in Novemebr 2022. Supported by the Ministry of Culture of Slovenia.
Album by Oskar Longyka from the program Young Researchers V.
As usual, Zavod Jazz Cerkno concludes the year with some album releases, which recordings were made at the festival. The new album Young Researchers V. — Oskar Longyka — καλός is the work of the violinist Oskar Longyka with his international band καλός. The quartet also includes Alberto Mastracci (viola), Tobias Kochseder (bandoneon) and Jure Bergant (piano). With this discographic release, our festival fulfills one of its missions: to encourage the creativity of younger, mostly not yet established Slovenian musicians. They gathered within the residence, which took place under the mentorship of Dré A. Hočevar, and formed an ensemble with which they played music and prepared a concert program, which was then performed at the festival.
At this year’s Young Researchers residency, which took place at the Jazz Cerkno festival for the fifth time in a row, we hosted the Slovenian-Italian-Austrian band ĸαλός by violinist and composer Oskar Longyka, a student of the Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Graz. He has also perfected his skills in the tango department in Rotterdam, which is one of his areas of musical interest. The band ĸαλός also performed at the Ljubljana Jazz Festival and MENT. “I have not searched for substance beyond what happened: all there is is entailed in the sound,” wrote Longyka in the liner notes for the album, which, like previous recordings from the Young Explorers program, is available on CD and on Bandcamp.