От себя могусказать что альбом ОЧЕНЬ приятный на слух
и даже то что 30 июня концерт в 16 тоннах не состоялся из-за болезни одного из членов группы - меня не огорчило, так как они всё равно приедут через месяц
Это не хип-хоп это просто "ПОЛЬСКИЙ ДЖАЗ" как они сами говорят
Отдельно отмечу ВИДЕО с ZEN DVD Skalpel - Sculpture
Tracklisting
ZEN87 2xLP:
01 High
02 Not Too Bad
03 Together
04 1958
05 So Far
06 Break In
07 Wonderland In Alice
08 Asphodel
09 Directions 3
10 Quiz
11 Theme From "Behind The Curtain"
12 Sculpture
ZENCD87 CD:
01 High
02 Not Too Bad
03 1958
04 Together
05 So Far
06 Break In
07 Quiz
08 Asphodel
09 Theme From "Behind The Curtain"
10 Sculpture
Press Release
Polish duo Marcin Cichy and Igor Pudlo have been making warm, crisp and complex beat-based music for a while now. It’s just that they’ve been making it in Poland. There, they are among the best-known and most respected DJs and producers about, with even a Paszporty Polityki nomination to their name (the most prestigious culture award in the country). Beyond, they are virtually unknown.
Until now, that is, and the release of their debut album by Ninja Tune. The pair came to Ninja’s attention via DJ Vadim who had worked with them on one of his Eastern European tours. But, as the saying goes, it ain’t where ya from… and Skalpel are definitely at some tomorrow places.
Drawing on Poland’s rich jazz heritage (much of it semi-illegal samizdat recordings made when the Communists thought that jazz could bring down the state), Cichy and Pudlo have an unrivalled source of samples to tap and they tap it with consummate aplomb. They combine a kind of broad brush romanticism with the most carefully dissected breaks for a sound which comes on like an East European “In A Silent Way” with heavier drumming. The truth is that they just get it right, again and again and again, making music which is by turns emotive, funny and filmic but always funky as fuck.
The opening “High” combines sharp conga playing with spectral warbling and flute stabs, “Not Too Bad” is held together by a killer double bass riff, single “1958” is kitsch dancefloor business, “Break In” lifts you up out of your seat and has you hanging above the couch, “Quiz” is garage-band jazz, “Behind The Curtain” is sublime road movie music.
But scratch a little deeper and the Polish scene of the 60s and 70s is more than just another crate to dig and also serves as their main inspiration. “We are much more influenced by this music than the present day scene,” explains Cichy. Pudlo points to the richness of a scene which included Michael Urbaniak (the only violinist to play with Miles Davis, like, ever) and Krzysztof Komeda (who composed the music for Polanski’s “Rosemary’s Baby). Which perhaps explains why Skalpel’s music, despite their name, never feels clinical. This is about keeping something living – not a post-mortem.
Biography
Skalpel are Marcin Cichy and Igor Pudlo DJs/producers from Wroclaw, Poland. Being new recruits of Ninja Foreign Legion, they are rather hesitant to speak about their past.
Sufficient to say, they are talented DJs, whose 4 mixes were aired on Solid Steel in the past, two of which were released as "Virtual Cuts" - namely the best mixtape released in the history of electronic music in Poland. The year 2000 was a landmark for them, as they traveled the country with DJ Vadim and his Russian Percussion, presenting an amazing 4-deck show. Later that year they released demo CD-R titled "Polish Jazz", which not only received a lot of critical acclaim, but also led Skalpel to signing a contract with Ninja Tune.
For the last two years they've been digging in the crates, trying to build the most exciting collection of samples from Polish Jazz records. Now they are slowly unleashing the music created from these sounds. They ressurected dusty&smokey spirit of polish jazz of 60s and 70s, and reimagined it for 21st century audiophiles.
Skalpel "Skalpel" 2004 (Ninja Tune) 
у меня дома тоже есть эти пластинки с легендарным "POLISH JAZZ" в левом верхнем углу. В своё время в Союзе серия выходила десятками экземпляров!! 
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имею два их альбома - Skalpel и Konfusion, заслушивался, когда только раздобыл, в 2005 году это было, как щас помню)
Ninja Tune
