David Fiuczynski is an innovative and prolific jazz
guitarist, with two bands and numerous albums to his credit. In
August of 2006, Fiuczynski headlined at the annual EnlightenNext
Frontiers of Jazz music festival. Appearing with his
quintet, the Screaming Headless Torsos, Fiuczynski
fully lived up to his reputation as a jazz musician who "doesn't
want to play just jazz," but prefers to create an exotic hybrid
brand of jazz, heavy metal, accented with hip-hop, and inflected
with the tonal and rhythmic structures of Asian and Eastern
European music. The result is a richly endowed and often
futuristic form of composition, improvisation, and ensemble
playing.
In this interview WIE's editor in chief Andrew
Cohen—himself a jazz drummer with his own band,
Unfulfilled Desires—sits down with Fiuczynski to
talk about the essential nature of the creative process and the
future of music in our information saturated world. The two
musicians speak about their personal experience and formal
training, their musical heroes, and the explicit and implicit
spiritual motivation behind their work. Intercut with footage of
his live performance, this Unbound video shows
Fiuczynski to be an engaging and thoughtful musician, always striving to find the undiscovered potential within himself and in his music.
Video clips of the Torsos playing at the EnlightenNext Center are used with permission and feature the songs "Word to Herb" and "Blue in Green."
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