The group set up in 1998. Before, the musicians had been meeting in various line-ups participating in miscellaneous experimental musical projects (REPORTA, MANDALA, ORANGGE), recording soundtracks to Brothers Quay's films (under the composer Lech Jankowski's command), writing music to numerous theatre and radio performances (directed by Zbigniew Szumski, Lech Raczak, Stanisław Kuźnik, Waldemar Modestowicz and Wanda Różycka), working with the theatres such as Teatr Ósmego Dnia, Cinema from Michałowice, the New Theatre and the Polish Theatre from Poznań, the Juliusz Osterwa Theatre from Gorzów, the Aleksander Fredro Theatre from Gniezno, as well as with international theatre groups (FOOTSBARN TRAVELLING THEATRE, TON UND KIRCHEN and KULTURETAGE from Oldenburg).A unique session of improvising instrumentalists. Some of them are truly seminal personalities on the Polish improvised scene: Arnold Dąbrowski, Lech Jankowski, Zbigniew Łowżył or Andrzeh Trzeciak (Jorgi Quartet and Taklamakan Trio). KUTIKULA project is a mature, rounded team improvisation of a multihued dimension. Dimensions, combining different snippets, disintegrating surfaces, dramaturgy, suspense, intuitive cooperation. Improvised music sparkling with astonishing ideas and dazzling with erudite personalities of its main heroes.
"(...) Because the first piece is called 'Kultikula', there must be some magic behind it. Indeed, the music is magic not only thanks to its sophisticated way of narration but also because of the electrifying dynamics of the recording. Eight people team of the keyboarder Arnold Dąbrowski (including percussion, violin, viola, trumpet and fagot) makes smoothly improvised modern music with ethnic and jazz highlights. A very ambitious undertaking, and despite amusing titles of particular pieces it is as a matter of fact dedicated to connoisseurs of alternative music in the widest meaning of the word. (...)." (Cezary Gumiński, "Machina")
(...) Never before has any album on our Polish market touched upon the Zorn-Ribbot esthetics as perceptibly as this record. Total approach to a very diversified instrumentarium, referring to the Far Eastern folklore, Arabic and Jewish music, all this makes this album very special. The world of synthetic sounds (synthesizers of Arnold Dabrowski) and electric (guitar of Lech Jankowski) were unified with the acoustic world of percussion and classical instruments (among others violin and viola) (...)." (Piotr Iwicki & Olaf Szewczyk, "Gazeta Wyborcza")
Kultikula: "kultikula", "sizallove pola", "41,3 st. C", "Znane medium Eillen Garett", "sonata pomarańczowa", "mocna ektoplazma", "czapka eksperymentatora", "niutnia pana", "a. ona ciagnie żelazko na duszę", "koda". Arnold Dąbrowski - lider, grand piano, keyboard, Zbigniew Łowżył - timpani, temple-blocks, tomtoms, brake drums, metal - tubes, echo - mike, Katarzyna Klebba - violin, viola, tabla, Lech Jankowski - el. guitar, violin nails, piccolo guitar, Andrzej Trzeciak - cello, recorder, saw, Andrzej Brych - trumpet, Corrado Fusco - drums, percussion, Paweł Paluch - basson. Multikulti Project, 1999. Catalogue Number: MPCD007. Total time: 61'28''.
Cezary Lerski and Polish Jazz Net