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It’s Not a Fake, It’s a Replica is the latest album by the Gdańsk-based quintet led by the charismatic violinist Tomasz Chyła. The album was born out of a need to move beyond a language that had ceased to be sufficient. It marks the moment when the Tomasz Chyła Quintet consciously abandons the safety of a jazz formula and turns toward music of greater weight, density, and direct impact. The riff—associated more with rock than with jazz—becomes the basic unit of narration and the building block of form, around which improvisation is organized.

Rock in this music does not function as a stylistic gesture or a quotation. It is a natural extension of the band’s identity and a response to a need for intensity and energy. The compositions unfold in layers: from hypnotic, trance-like structures to sudden ruptures and breakdowns of form. Improvisation remains an important element, but it does not dominate—it is subordinated to the overall architecture of the pieces.

The album title is a tongue-in-cheek commentary on comparisons of the band to progressive rock legends, including King Crimson, and at the same time a critical response to the obsession with originality. It is also a wink toward Frank Zappa and his ironic distance...  more