Tim Lefebvre and Janek Gwizdala in Conversation

[@devinebass]

Great interview mate!... late to the party but I got here in the end ;-)

[@janekgwizdala]

Much like me to fatherhood! 🤣

[@jairajswann]

Y'all need to do this more often!

[@IanMartinAllison]

I wish this would’ve been twice as long. Thanks guys. What a treat.

[@tleuven]

One of my all time favourite players!

[@Mrpsblobsoflowendmung]

Brilliant stuff. Blackstar to me is Bowie’s greatest album . When I listened to it the first time it was like an entire career retrospective but with “THAT” sound . Tim is defiantly one of the most inspiring thud Staffers

[@thepartimemusician65]

Janek you are an awesome human being and your Bass playing is as Tim says ‘tip of the ice berg level ! This interview was great fun and inspirational.

[@ivofechner8039]

It needs to be about 3 hours. Seriously, 1hr is nothing these days! Thanks for this in any case because tim is so cool and you guys are great together.

[@mikewolfe9458]

This is awesome. Would love to see you guys together again for another video and maybe even some sound exploration/jams. Thanks for all the great content!

[@TheJkaye13]

I could listen to this all day. Thanks

[@mtc918]

Prop’s to both of you! Thank you so much for sharing your experiences!

[@alfonsoalcala]

The kind of content we all deserve, thanks Janek!!!

[@bassdubfunk]

Great interview. The care that you take in considering the questions and subjects really shows.

[@jrbbass]

Amazing. Thank you Janek and Tim.

[@frederic_viennot]

SO AWESOME !!!!!!! thank you so much ;))

[@briankastan2372]

Great interview !

[@nickpicc]

love listening to you two!

[@76madhur]

Really cool conversation, would love to hear more like this

[@avfc1956]

Loved this you guys. Such mutual respect for each other having earned your spurs. May you stay healthy & keep doing your thing for many years to come. Thank you 🙏🏻

[@ignaciomeyerp]

I'm starting in the recording world with some friends, you really learn a lot just by doing! Thank you for the interview!

[@Fusionbassist56]

Dude! Love this! I would love to see you in conversation with Amos Williams of Tesseract!

[@MichaelStockwell1948]

Great interview. Thanks

[@R4ND4ZZO]

This is dope. Love this format!

[@keziahj]

thanks a lot² !!

[@roncastro7195]

Nice you 2

[@obidibidou6933]

What'S the pedal at 11:21 ???

[@lennartschandl]

An Electro Harmonix Frequency Analyzer. It’s a rig mod

[@MrCaptainSilly]

Could not disagree more on what you said at the 40 minutes mark ! Check out Marcin Masecki for instance, there are so many orignal things going on right now, but you have to open your ears and not listen to that spotify playlist they keep forcing on you. Other then that, really enjoyed this!!

[@janekgwizdala]

So i listened to the person you suggested. Had never heard the music before. It sounds like a cross between classical, ragtime, 1920's/30's jazz, and even prepared piano in some cases. But it generally seems to come back around to some kind of stride element, or element of "improvisation" based around a very specific style from almost 100 years ago. I'm not sure I would a) call this fearless, or b) think of what I was talking about with Tim as "some proper boomer stuff" as you said before editing your comment. And even the more "modern" sounding stuff I listened to, is not fearless. Jaki Byard and Lenie Tristano did that decades ago. And this is exactly what I was referring to in the conversation with Tim: Musicians don't care about truly doing the work anymore like they used to, and audiences are now so immune to bullshit that they don't care. I agree that there are exceptions, I just don't think the one you put forward has much of a case for being a strong contender for the subject at hand. I'm not refuting that this musician is good, or that there's a loving audience for what they do. I don't want to invalidate their process or concept at all. I just think that using this as an example of fearless music creation is like using an apple as a good example of a spacecraft. I actually really liked some of the classical side of things I heard when doing a deep dive on this musician. But that might be an even tougher room to get into when it comes to originality and fearlessness in writing. Tough to hear past the heavy Bartok, Messiaen, and maybe Scriabin..? influences, and say "oh shit, I've never heard anything like this before. I don't just eat what the algorithm feeds me on Spotify. The issue I have with what I hear in the improvised music space right now is that fearlessness and originality used to be the rule, not the exception. I also do not claim to have found a way to execute any of the things I'm discussing here. I try. Every day I try. And when I listen, that's what I'm listening for in other musicians. And they're out there, you just get to find 5 or 6 of them a year now, more like 5 or 6 a decade.

[@MrCaptainSilly]

@@janekgwizdala Sure, he gets his inspiration from 100 year old music, but the way he uses it is fresh and new, and nothing like Tristano/Messiaen/jelly roll morton. Makes me wonder what you consider to be 'fearless music'? My point is that easy to glorify the past, and say that the youth is not putting in the work in anymore. It's a pessimistic statement that leads to nothing really. In normal times I go to concerts here in Belgium and hear something fresh almost every week. Guys and girls that don't care about instagram or likes, but make a living of experimental music (that's fearless!). You do mention a couple of names of artists later on that you liked (I did like 'em as well ), so I guess you did contradict yourself on that one. I am also gonna use this last phrase to use the word boomer, just to piss you off. ciaoooooo

[@iwillnevergetone5]

that's wild to hear that even in a band as sonically thick as TDB, tim was still told to turn down. wack