Portrait in The Free Jazz Collective
Portrait in Culture Pl
"Majkowski is definitely one of the most talented artists in Europe... He remains one of the most consistent and creative artists" - Nowe Idzie od Morza
"Watching him play is almost a dizzying experience as his hands fly about his instrument... Majkowski needs to be seen to be believed" - Music Forum Magazine
"Fantastic, obsessive solo double bass compositions by Majkowski... one is always aware of the music produced instead of being distracted by the producer... making for utterly absorbing listening... wonderful, unusual and extremely focused" - Just Outside
"An extended study of how the double bass can be played and, particularly, how it can be made to generate an entirely new range of sounds" - Real Time Arts
photo by Serge Kolosov
"This Aussie minimalist based in Berlin takes his music to its darkest location... each of Mike Majkowski's records tends to have its own distinct sonic insignia... leading to a teetering mixture of natural hiss and unnervingly tense tones" - The Wire
"Good. GOD. Man. Majkowski is patient with his mystical recipes, flipping pigeons and sending smoke signals like a shaman when he wants to communicate, then closing the shutters just to mess with your mind... gray, sinister, and slightly nefarious if not outright treacherous" - Tiny Mix Tapes
"Overtones and acoustic artefacts of his playing weave in and out of the foreground of the music – sometimes for such an extended period of time that the listener can be forgiven for forgetting that a single instrument is being played in real-time" - Cut & Run
"Majkowski strikes a particularly disconcerting balance between recognition and the unknown... A beautiful blur" - ATTN:Magazine
"Deft repetition of stripped-down ideas generates some of the most rewarding minimalist music I’ve heard in recent memory" - Chicago Reader
"There is such attention paid to the grain of the sound, the micro fluctuations of pitch, the beating of one tone against another, and the creation of evocative atmosphere. A great deal of care and consideration emerges in the details" - Loud Mouth
I recently quoted Stefano Scodanibbio as a key figure during the last decades in double bass techniques and composition... I bet he would have looked with favour to this work. Eyes wide open on this guy" - The Free Jazz Collective
"In the intelligent hands of a composer-performer such as Majkowski... an entirely new and involving musical experience, a reinvention of music" - RealTime Arts
"Majkowski is one of the most interesting musicians on the improvised scene." - Culture Pl
"This one's incredible... a totally immersive durational study, huge recommendation" - Boomkat
"His use of volume, density and duration here are unparalleled" - Cyclic Defrost
"Captivating and mesmerising" - The Free Jazz Collective