Dominik Gawara: June 2011

BIOGRAPHY

Musician,IMPROVISER,ELECTRONIC/ACOUSMATIC composer,BASSIST and percussionist.

Polish artist tranferred in Italy from the age of six years. He founded in 1991 with David Saggiorato the Kor-at, group of industrial music experiences in which he plays the percussions. The band does some concerts and does soundtrack of the remake of the film of David Linch “Eraserhead”, realized by a Turin independent film maker. Unfortunately recordings of that period do not exist.
In 1992 he left Kor-at and he recorded the first solo job with the Glockenspiel name, published like demotape.
In 1993 he founded BIANCA BELMONT with Alberto Pasino. The band, been born like duo, increases to five elements in 1995, with Renzo Razzano on second bass, Marcello Turco on trumpet and Max to the saxophone. They recorded two demotapes, respectively in 1993 and 1995, both remastereded in the end of 1995,and edited dy Setola di Maiale.
Between 1997 and 1998 he recorded and published the first “homely deliriums” with the name of PENTLICZEK, using ethnic percussions, instruments, guitars and tapes. he participated with this project in some compilations of the sicilian label Snowdonia: “Orchestre Meccaniche Italiane” (1997), “Sbim Sbam” (1998), “International Gluttons” (1999).
In 1998 he begans to collaborate stablily with Stefano Giust and his SETOLA DI MAIALE label, he defines Stefano: the “better companion to sonic deviating lines” and with him he founded the "anti-jazz" project called GBUR.
In the recording of the first job of Gbur, beside the two members of Bianca Belmont (Renzo and Marcello), joins Paul Caleo.
In 1999 the original line up always changes and in place of Renzo and Marcello there was three new elements: Ivan Pilat to tenor sax and baritone and Daniel “el desviado reverendo surrealista” Pagliero,(aka LO DEV ALM) to the electronics and Maurizio Suppo aka Dimensionidol.Caleo Paul who originally played the guitar now handle one instrument self builded, named “Caleophone”. With this line up they plays in Venice in 1999 on occasion of the 48th BIENNALE and the next year to the Leoncavallo in Milan for the OFFEST meeting of Italian independent labels.
In a night of December of 2000 it records with Stefano Giust and Daniele Pagliero a series of unexpected traces that will come later on published with the name of BABELIS PROJECT, always on Setoladimaiale and in co-production with the Mexican label GENITAL PROD.
In the July of 2006, at a distance of eight years made a new record under the name of Pentliczek, published for Setoladimaiale.

Active since 1989,has recorded various material,
and collaborated with many musicians and artists.

Projects-

GloCKEN-SpieL (1991-1992)
KOR-AT (1991-1993)
BIANCA BELMONT (1993-1995)
NERVIDI
PENTLICZEK (founded in 1997)
GBUR (founded in 1998)
BABELIS PROJECT (founded in 2000)
DEAF SLUG MD16
FFATSO
GROMKI DOT
RED BEARD KINSKY

Discography as PENTLICZEK:
PENTLICZEK it's a solo project founded in 1997.

"Pentliczek" (1998)SdM

"Abnormous post anomalous and proto
surrealistic versions of poular
and traditional psychotic songs" (2006) SdM

"Termite" (2009)
SdM rec,and FREE download on Clinical Archives
musicians and collaborators:
YAMORI KOTA
LEZET
LILI REFRAIN
ST.RIDE

as DEAF SLUG MD16:
"The breach"(2009) SdM

as GloCKEN-SpieL:
"Hump" (1992) self releazed

with GBUR:
"Gbur" (1998)
"Integrale" (1999)
"Third obstacle" (2008)
"Live at MAVV" (2009)
GBUR and the BIG ORKESTRA
"Live in Venice 48th Biennale of arts" (1999) available on CD and VHS

with FFATSO:
"Mano Nera" (2009)

with BIANCA BELMONT:
"S/t" (various material realized between
1993 and 1995,remastered in 2005) SdM

with RED BEARD KINSKY:
"First is Fast" (2009) self releazed

with BABELIS PROJECT:
"S/T" (2000)Setola di Maiale/Genital Prod.(ITA/MEX)

with GROMKI DOT:
"Kid Jalopy" (2009) Isolationism rec.

COMPILATIONS:
"SETOLA DI MAIALE 13 years of contemporary improvised
experimental electronic and irregular music" (1993-2005)
“Orchestre Meccaniche Italiane” Snowdonia(1997)
“Sbim Sbam” (1998) Snowdonia
“International Gluttons” (1999) Snowdonia
"Dreams and Nightmares" (1999) FRAMMENTI prod.
"First-Aid Kit" (2006) CHEW-Z
"NIENTE rec.Vol.1" (2009) NIENTE rec.

FESTIVALS:
48th BIENNALE ESPOSIZIONE INTERNAZIONALE D'ARTE IN VENICE 1999
OFFEST festival meeting of italian indipendent labels in Milano 2000
5 GIORNATE DI MILANO FESTIVAL 2009
NOVARA JAZZ FESTIVAL 2009
SAKURA RIO RE FEST 2009
RETROGRADE IN THE DROMOSPHERE 3 Poznan 2010

related links:
http://www.setoladimaiale.net/
DISCOGS
OTHER LINKS:
www.myspace.com/pentliczek
www.myspace.com/biancabelmont
www.myspace.com/timingmd13
www.myspace.com/freegbur
www.myspace.com/redbeardkinsky
www.myspace.com/gromkidot
www.myspace.com/ffatso
www.myspace.com/babelisproject
https://soundcloud.com/nervidi

PENTLICZEK discography

"Pentliczek"
first album, recorded in different situations,
moments and moods
between sept 1997 and jan 1998....

DOMINIK GAWARA plays:
various acoustic,ethnic and metal
percussions, guitars, bass,tapes,overdubs

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"Abnormous post anomalous and proto
surrealistic versions of poular
and traditional psychotic songs"
recorded in July 2006

DOMINIK GAWARA plays:
popular and unpopular samples,
metal,ac. and electronic percussions,
drum machine kaoss pad and ac. guitar

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"TERMITE"(2009)
available on Setola di Maiale records in
LIMITED EDITION
and downloadable FOR FREE directly from
CLINICAL ARCHIVES web site:
www.clinicalarchives.spyw.com
http://www.archive.org/details/ca303_p
this album was recorded
in collaboration with:
LEZET
YAMORI KOTA
LILI REFRAIN and
ST.RIDE

SOMEONE SAYS......
“Exciting and unusual.."Abnormous..."is considered among the best releases of 2006..engages in single duel with the beat, annihilates and deforms,dub, threatening, amphibian and muddy..smiling barbarian, shamanic and energetic...”

Marco Carcasi - KATHODIK zine

“Gawara drawing landscapes of electronic music faceted and divergent..Obsession and repetition, unusual and experimental dub samplerism.."ANOMALOUS..."is an album if he were labeled

"APHEX TWIN",everyone would shout to the miracle...”

Stefano Pifferi - SENTIRE ASCOLTARE zine

“Voice of the objects and rhythm.. is a tongue twister that, through repetition, circulates electroacoustic filaments, subtle aerial melodies.. amplifications and enlargements of individual components of timbral sound source.A dense web of objects in spinner...”

Francesco Vignotto - BLOW UP n. 19(1999)

“Simply insane. Contorted,tentacular,elusive, side, jump into the void without a safety net and an excellent quality that pump irrepressible in the veins...”

Marco Carcasi - KATHODIK zine

GBUR discography

GBUR was founded in 1998
GBUR is free improvisation

"GBUR" (1998) SdM rec
first album recorded in May 1998

STEFANO GIUST-
drums ,electronic perc.,voices
DOMINIK GAWARA-
piano,zanza ,xilophone,ac.percussion.,bass
LORENZO RAZZANO-
electric bass,didjeridoo
MARCELLO TURCO-
trombone,trumpet
PAOLO CALEO-
electric guitar

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"Integrale" (1999) SdM rec
recorded in july 1999

STEFANO GIUST - drums,electronic perc.
DOMINIK GAWARA - electric fretless bass
DANIELE PAGLIERO - electronics,samples
IVAN PILAT - baritone sax
DIMENSION"Suppo"IDOL - electric guitar
PAOLO CALEO - caleophone,disturbance

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"Third Obstacle" (2008) SdM rec
recorded in july 2008

DOMINIK GAWARA - acoustic bass,kaoss pad
STEFANO GIUST - drums,percussion
IVAN PILAT - baritone sax,trumpets,screams
DANIELE PAGLIERO - electronics,samples
DAVIDE DID LORENZON - alto sax
STEFANO FERRIAN - tenor sax
ALBERTO COLLODEL - bass clarinet
ALESSANDRO FIORIN DAMIANI - electronics,filtering

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GBUR live at MAVV (Treviso) 05/6/2009

STEFANO GIUST - drums,cymbals,objects
DOMINIK GAWARA - acoustic 5 strings fretless bass
IVAN PILAT - baritone sax,mellophone,voice
DANIELE PAGLIERO - samples,electronics
DID LORENZON - alto and soprano sax
ALESSANDRO F. DAMIANI - electronics,recordings
ALBERTO COLLODEL - clarinet,bass clarinet

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Line-up
DOMINIK GAWARA acoustic/electric fretless bass
STEFANO GIUST drums, cymbals, objects, pads
DANIELE PAGLIERO samples, electronics
IVAN PILAT baritone sax, trumpet, mellophone,text and screams
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DAVIDE 'DID' LORENZON alto sax
ALBERTO COLLODEL bass clarinet
ALESSANDRO FIORIN DAMIANI electronics

Other musicians involved in the past:
Maurizio Suppo (electric guitar), Paolo Caleo (electric guitar, caleophone), Lorenzo Razzano (bass guitar), Marcello Turco (trumpet).

GBUR Live at MAVV excerpt (2 July 2009)

SOMEONE SAYS.....
"(...) Son trascorsi dieci anni dall'ultimo incontro con il progetto Gbur. Ci avevano lasciati con il doppio “Integrale”. Tornano in otto. Gbur, svomitazza sei tranci di carne viva, che nascono infetti d'impro, ma ben più strutturati d'uno sberleffo paiono. Gbur si incaponisce (bene...) nell'indagar un territorio in forte pendenza. L'approccio, questo, è rustico, odoroso, e debitamente di taglio punk dadaista. Cool come pochi; altroché. E si ha voglia di non dover attendere altri dieci anni. Nel catalogo SST di un tempo, avrebbero fatto un figurone, ora, li dovrebbero pagare, per starci su quel catalogo. Eretici in frenetica azione funk (la nostra Arkestra?)."
Marco Carcasi, Kathodik (2009).

"(...) Giust è il batterista di gomma; Gawara basse note stellari: un esser preso come laswelliano; Suppo in ascensore con Buckethead: spasimanti con i gozzi aperti; Pagliero uomo parafulmine: elettricità della terra; Caleo, inventore di un affare costruito, ma, col motore di una lavatrice, un sitar? e Pilat appena tornato da Londra dove accompagnava un ubriacone, tal Coxhill. Il jazz è una testa di maiale, lo è sempre stato - ma se di primato vogliamo parlare, loro sono i primi a farlo così, per pura maleducazione. Lo spirito del maiale irrompe con passi coltraniani da gigante e col suo maiale-jazz fare scorpacciata di tutto. Che iddio mi fulmini se i tempi non sono maturi!"
Francesco Vignotto, Blow Up n.22 (2000).

"(...) È una musica che va dappertutto perchè non c'è una sola direzione da percorrere."
Marco Pandin, A-rivista anarchica n.266 (2000).

"(...) Questo jazz eretico non ha bisogno di finezze, è rozzo e sconclusionato e tanto più dimostra la propria vitalità. È una sfida continua."
Luca Pagani, All About Jazz (2000).

"(...) Un approccio radicale senza compromessi a più voci, un simposio sonico che si sviluppa per stratificazioni, opposizioni e confluenze tra detriti rock, rumorismi, fraseggi post jazz."
Flavio Massarutto, Villotte Emigranti e Altre Storie Jazz (2003).

GBUR and SETOLADIMAIALE UNIT

GBUR and SETOLADIMAIALE UNIT
recorded live in Venice
during 48th Biennale di Venezia in 1999
(available on VIDEO VHS and CD)
STEFANO GIUST - drum set,objects
LUCA CARTOLARI - electric fretless bass
DOMINIK GAWARA - electric fretless bass
PAOLO CALEO - caleophone
MAURIZIO SUPPO - electric guitar
IVAN PILAT - baritone sax
DANIELE PAGLIERO - electronics,samples
ALESSANDRO CARTOLARI - alto sax
MICHELE BRIEDA - autoharp

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BIANCA BELMONT- Letnica Sopot Hel

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SM580. BIANCA BELMONT –
"Letnica Sopot Hel" CD 2001
(material originally recorded between '93-'95 and previously edited on 2 demo cass.)

STAFF in 1993:
ALBERTO PASINO - plays drum set, perc. and violin fz1
DOMINIK GAWARA - plays acoustic and electronic percussion, wood cash,
                                  drum machine,bass and noises

STAFF in 1995:
ALBERTO PASINO plays drum set and percussion
DOMINIK GAWARA plays rhytmic and irregular bass,percussion
LORENZO RAZZANO plays rhytmic,harmonic and disharmonic bass
MAX plays alto saxophone
MARCELLO TURCO plays trumpet
(cover painting by Mario Milano)

Review by Vincenzo Santarcangelo on
SENTIRE ASCOLTARE webzine(in italian)

BIANCA BELMONT – "Letnica Sopot Hel" CD 2001 (SdM rec)
"Un gruppo – italiano, per giunta – che già agli albori degli anni Novanta proponeva un rock per niente restio ad accogliere inviti e provocazioni dub, black, kraut, no wave, jazz e world music... New wave assai ragionata e sfrontata dieci anni prima di LIARS, DEERHOF e compagnia, dunque, ma all'ombra della Mole ed in tempi non ancora pronti a farsi lambire dai flutti di quella new wave reinassance che sarebbe esplosa di lì a poco... E' allora SdM ad assumersi il compito di preservare - rimasterizzandoli in una edizione CD-R - questi tesori nascosti inizialmente apparsi su nastri autoprodotti tra il '93 ed il '95: il tutto - servisse a dimostrarlo anche solo la mancanza di tempismo, disastrosa, in termini latamente commerciali -, in maniera disinteressata e passionale... Processo che appare ancor più naturale se si pensa che il leader di BIANCA BELMONT, Dominik Gawara, sarebbe diventato presto uno dei massimi animatori dell'etichetta."..
(Vincenzo Santarcangelo)

BABELIS PROJECT

all songs are improvised and recorded
in one night in December 2000
STEFANO GIUST-
drums and electronic perc.
DOMINIK GAWARA-
acoustic and electronic perc.,microsax
DANIELE PAGLIERO-
samples,sound manipulations,
distortions filtering,shynts,loops

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Mexican and Latin America distribution :

Genital Productions
10 y 11 Anaya y O. Rmz.#736
Cd. Victoria, Tamaulipas 87050
México
genitalprods@email.com
genitalp@hotmail.com

DeaF SluG MD 16 - "The Breach" (2009)

DEAF SLUG MD 16
"The breach"(2009)

D.K. Gawara-5 strings acoustic fretless bass
PoX EDnY WuZ-drums

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           Deaf Slug Md 16 'The Breach'
           (Setola Di Maiale 2009)
           review on KHATODIK zine(in italian)

"Deaf Slug Md 16, è l'ennesimo progetto di Dominik Gawara.Semplicemente folle.Contorto, sfuggente, laterale, un salto nel vuoto senza rete di protezione ed una qualità eccelsa che stantuffa incontenibile nelle vene.
Gawara è tentacolare, Bianca Belmont, Gbur, Pentliczek, Ffatso, Babelis Project, questo sfogo convulso ed ipnotico, produzioni sempre sopra la media; sempre protese in avanti.
Deaf Slug, è lavoro di basso (lo strumento, corde, corpo, cavi e derive), torturato, stratificato e martellato.
Ed i virtuosismi, son bocconi velenosi, azzannati e subito sputati da Dominik.
“The Breach”, sono otto stordenti e giocose costruzioni ardite, che si tramutano in gioco insolente, dove si possono incontrare spunti/sputi industriali, bacchettate e ditate gommose, che diresti Les Claypool alle prese con un brutto atterraggio post qualcosa, l'incubo peggiore di ogni seguace di Stanley Clarke, etnicismo zoppo, volontariamente asfaltato e tragico spirito alla Residents.
I Cabaret Voltaire di “Red Mecca” e “Three Mantras”, persi nell'alcool alle prese con febbrili slanci zappiani, anche un rigurgito di ballo alterato, a pompar sottopelle, ulteriori tossine.
Dall'iniziale Bynthet, sino alla conclusiva Cuttle-Fish, è un unico avanzare, caparbiamente ipnotico, stordito e caracollante.
Che induce al sorriso, al brivido; ed al plauso.
Registrato in una stanza, con la porta ben chiusa.
Ora la porta è aperta, la stanza è vuota, e Gawara è fuori in strada.
Statevi accorti e sostenetelo apertamente nel suo folle intento.
Geniale ed ostica devianza.
Santa Setola Di Maiale."

Marco Carcasi

GROMKI DOT - "kid jalopy" (2009)

GROMKI DOT "Kid Jalopy" (2009)
recorded in august 2009

DOMINIK GAWARA:
5 strings acoustic
fretless bass,
bass flute,
percussion
LILI REFRAIN:
guitars,loops,effects
filters,bow on steel,
flute a coulisse,
voice

Free Download
on ISOLATIONISM RECORDS
http://www.archive.org/details/isor006KidJalopy
www.myspace.com/isolationismrecords
more info:
http://www.myspace.com/gromkidot
(cover painting by Iwona Altmajer)

LEZET vs PENTLICZEK - "Earpiece" (2007)

"Earpiece" (2007)
LEZET plays PenTliczeK
LEZET's deconstructions and de-compositions,remix and alterate
versions of Pentliczek's tunes.
Ep FREE download at ABDICATE CELL netlab:
http://www.archive.org/details/ac042

check out also more infos about at LEZET's page:
www.myspace.com/LEZET1
(cover artwork by Sergi Saldaña Massó)

"Pentliczek's music is an ongoing , genre-defying travelogue not wanting in structure nor execution.Lezet's "Earpiece" attempts at unriddling and re-interpreting the original Pentliczek timbre while paying homage to this music royalty.Knuckling down to working on this collection was an enlightening as well as a rewarding experience.
Kudos to Dominik Gawara for giving Lezet a permission to embark on such a wonderful voyage".
All tracks originally written and recorded by Pentliczek (Dominik Gawara)