Matthew Golombisky's Cuentos is an ongoing project of composing, recording, and releasing music with trusted bandmates from around the globe and become inspired by and with close music cohorts. With Cuentos, Golombisky composes simple aural "plots" with a couple or few "characters" for each story. The cuentos are meant to humbly encourage that the music that comes forth stays within the realm of a short story format and doesn't develop into a full novel, so to speak; they aren't meant to convey visual or physical plots, characters, or scenes. Preferring not to interfere with the listener’s own experience of the music, Golombisky did not name the pieces; they are simply numbered in the order composed (six cuentos per volume).
The structures are meant to be simple and showcase the improvisational precision of each performer on conveying a modest concept with fluidity, clarity, and focus. What the listener is left with is an introspection into a single objective that comfortably emerges over the course of the piece, leaving them with a comprehensible aural encounter. Even the lengths of the pieces represent a briefness, here and gone before a single musician is able to explore every possibility of the story; Golombisky’s intention. Most pieces range in three minutes length--single ideas presented, explored, and left to the listener for reflection.
Matthew Golombisky
1. Cuento #19 03:27
2. Cuento #20 04:10
3. Cuento #21 02:50
4. Cuento #22 03:23
5. Cuento #23 02:50
6. Cuento #24 (take 1) 02:26
7. Cuento #24 (take 2) 02:16
Doug Stone - tenor saxophone
Nick Finzer - trombone
Matthew Golombisky - electric bass & compositions
Chris Teal - drums
Recorded by Matthew Golombisky at The Bunker in Fayetteville AR USA
Mixed and mastered by Florencio Justo at Estudio Doctor F. in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Original art by Isabella Golombisky
Design by Matthew Golombisky
