The Points-Rataj Quintet takes a journey that discovers spaces often concealed to closed musical communities. The band members being like scientists have made elementary particles collide, so that together with the release of great amounts of energy, new and yet undiscovered particles can come to life.
The musicians from the progressive jazz band, Points, met the composer and sound performer, Michal Rataj, for the first time in spring 2015. The expectations on both sides promised mutual enrichment drawn from diverse musical worlds and communities. In the end, their musical-merging became a discovery of resonances; finding sounds native to both contemporary jazz thinking and musical language, with roots in musique concrète and contemporary classical music.
Line-up: Oskar Torok – trumpet, Lubos Soukup – saxophone, Michal Rataj – live electronics, Tomas Liska – double bass, and Tomas Hobzek – drums