ABOUT DRAZEK FUSCALDO

Drazek Fuscaldo (formerly Mako Sica) is the dynamic, freeform duo Przemyslaw Krys Drazek (electric trumpet, mandolin, electric guitar) and Brent Fuscaldo (vocals, electric bass, harmonica, thumb piano, gong, percussion).  

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They are composers who transcend categorical confines but weave together ideas that, as Dereck Higgins puts it “sound like group meditation.”  They invite the spirit of improvisation when joined by guest musicians.  Their ongoing collaboration with percussion master Hamid Drake has resulted in multiple live performances and releases on the Feeding Tube and Astral Spirits labels.  Their most recent album June 22 features legendary Chicago artists Joshua Abrams, Tatsu Aoki and Thymme Jones.

 

As Byron Coley writes, 

“I have always felt these guys operate in the same post-punk universe as the Sun City Girls, blending free psych, free jazz, free world, and avant garde impulses into something that probably could have existed in a pre-Sun City universe. But where SCG were constant maximalists, DF accept the minimal as an equally power compositional gambit.”