01. Kinetyka / Kinetics
02. Taniec we mgle / A dance in the mist
03. Prestidigitator
04. St’Germain 141
05. Entropia / Entropy
06. Senni Rycerze / Sleepy knights
07. Taniec Chochola cz. I / Chochol dance part I
08. Taniec Chochola cz. II / Chochol dance part II        play
09. Prelude In E minor - moll Op.28 No. 4 - Impression
10. Krywan
11. Mr. H.L. [dedicated to Hubert Laws]

HeFi Quartet:
Leszek HeFi Wisniowski – flute, saxophones
Paweł Kaczmarczyk – electric piano
Bartek Staromiejski – drums
Tomasz Kupiec – bass
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Krzesimir Dębski – violin (1,4,6,7,8)
Dominik Bieńczycki – violin (1)
Pramath Kiran - conga, bongos (11)

Leszek Hefi Wiśniowski - the flutist, saxophone player and the composer is a graduate from Music Academy of Jazz in Katowice, the flute faculty. He is a laureate of numerous awards and honors in such a prestigious events like: “Jazz Juniors”- International Competition of Young and Debut Jazz Ensembles (1993), Siedlce Jazz Competition (1996), The Ministry of Culture Award (1998), “New Tradition”- Folk Music Competition, Warsaw (2001). Leszek Wiśniowski used it to bring a consistency to his jazz-oriented style that reached easily across genre boundaries. The distinctive sound as well as his technique allows him to play with the best musicians and composers who represent different musical genres: Joanna Słowińska, Krzesimir Dębski, Zygmunt Konieczny, Michał Nestorowicz, Wojtek Mrozek, Pawel Kaczmarczyk,Tomasz Kupiec, Giridhar Udupa, Pramath Kiran, Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, what is more, he plays with such ensembles like HeFi Quartet, Indialucia, 4People, Viva Flamenco. Leszek Wiśniowski also played as a soloist with symphony orchestras.

KINETYKA - The author of almost all compositions on the cd is Leszek HeFi Wiśniowski. The only two pieces not written by the artist are: traditional folk song Krywań and Chopin’s E-minor Prelude. The latter can also be heard on the prestigious recording-a vinyl record, that will be soon released by Polonia Records where Leszek HeFi Wiśniowski’s Chopin interpretation will be next to Leszek Możdzer’s and Andrzej Jagodzinski’s interpretations.

Making use of the unique sound cohesiveness created by the electric piano, the musicians dare to travel to various esthetics mostly based on jazz but what is by far predominant, it is Leszek HeFi Wiśniowski’s flute sound, full of virtuosity but still very sophisticated. The name of the record is formed on the base of physical term of kinetics, as a movement of particles caused by the unbalanced powers. The listener will also easy notice influences of Hubert Laws, Wayne Shorter, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Krzysztof Komeda and EST music. The cd begins with thrilling and industrial “Kinetics” but when we’re coming to the end the music seems to go smooth and we have Mr.H.L that melodically doesn’t suite to the rest, that’s why is labeled as a bonus track.

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1.    Spy's Horse
2.    Lechoechoplexita Intro
3.    Lechoechoplexita
4.    Obsessjon
5.    The Story of One Mount (Historia pewnej góry)
6.    St'Germain 141
7.    Bamboo Song (Bambusowa piosenka)
8.    Dangerous Hunting. (Niebezpieczne polowanie)
9.    Antilope's Diary
10.    Ram's Dance intro
11.    Ram's Dance
12.    Blues IPS
13.    Ips
14.    Krywań Impression
15.    Twilight

Leszek 'Hefi' Wiśniowski - flutes, bansuri, saxophone, percussion
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Giridhar Udupa - Ghatam, Kanjira, Konnakol (2, 3, 9)
Dominik Bienczycki - violin (10,11)
Anna Malacina - vocals (14)

This is the second album by the Polish Jazz flautist/saxophonist/composer Leszek HeFi Wisniowski, recorded solo using the multichannel technology, which allows him to overdub his playing many different instruments to produce the final result, which sounds often like an orchestral recording. The album comprises of fifteen tracks, thirteen of which are his original compositions, one is a folk tune and the remaining one if co-composed with one of the guest artists, who play on six of the tracks.

The music is a mixture of many different influences, like World Music, contemporary Classical and of course the Jazz tradition. The melodic element is very strong, which makes this music highly accessible to a wide audience. At times it crosses the delicate border between ambitious and elevator music, but that is of course a matter of taste. The overall sound of multilayered saxophones, flutes and other instruments is quite impressive and again very likeable.

Since this is not predominantly a Jazz recording, it should not be judged by Jazz criteria. As a piece of Jazz-World Fusion it is quite unique and interesting, albeit hardly innovative. If this album was made sometime in the 1990s it had a chance to become quite a hit with the New Age listeners, but now, with the New Age trend discarded and forgotten, it sort of falls in between the currently popular sub-genres. Still it is worth to be listened to just for the sake of the original approach to making music and of course flute enthusiasts might find it appealing. ---Adam Baruch, polish-jazz.blogspot.com

Lechoechoplexita jest wynikiem studyjnej pracy nad eksperymentalnym programem scenicznym, zatytułowanym Koncert na flety, saksofony i dźwięki uwięzione. Materiał zawarty na płycie, to tygiel oryginalnych pomysłów autora oraz wpływów jazzu, ethno, muzyki współczesnej i elektroniki, to misternie przygotowany spektakl z wirtuozowskim fletem i saksofonem w roli głównej.

Połączone niepowtarzalnym brzmieniem instrumentów Leszka Hefi Wiśniowskiego utwory stanowią spójną opowieść, mimo różnic stylistycznych. Biorąc pod uwagę sposób realizacji i uzyskane brzmienie, to jedyna taka płyta na świecie. --- jazzsound.pl

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