Improtest presents : Slawek Janicki-Roomet Jakapi 09.11.2023 (Copy)
Sławek Janicki - musician, filmmaker, creator of artistic activities, started his activity in the mid-1980s, being part of artistic movements active between Gdańsk and Bydgoszcz.
He co-created the so-called Tass Scene, which was based in the legendary Mózg club in Bydgoszcz, founded in 1994, still run by Janicki.For over 30 years he has been active (but not tense) on the international improvised music scene, giving concerts in Europe and Australia. As a musician, he remains completely committed to absolute improvisation as the purest form of music creation.
He has performed with an incalculable number of artists from the Polish and international scene of improvisation. He has made recordings realased on cd's and vinyls with the following musicians: R. Mitchell, P. Brotzmann, M. Feldman, S. Namtchylak, N. de Heney, J. Mazzoll, K. Uchihashi, N. Hein, S. Couvoisier, Q. Janicki, F. Frith , T. Kondo, T. Gwinciński, J. Buhl, K. Staszewski, J. Zdunek, M. Zieliński, Ł. Jędrzejczak, A. Maćkowiak, Z. Piernik.
Roomet Jakapi is a free improv vocalist. His collaboration partners in the field of improvisational music include Rieko Okuda, Antti Virtaranta, Guilherme Rodrigues, Emilio Gordoa, Kris Kuldkepp, Louise Dam Eckardt Jensen, Tom Blancarte, Chris Pitsiokos, Fred Frith, Jerzy Mazzoll, Sławek Janicki, Roman Stolyar, Elo Masing, Mart Soo, Taavi Kerikmäe, Niels Præstholm, Theodore Parker, Jukka Kääriäinen, Jonas Van den Bossche, Ilia Belorukov, and many others. The British magazine Jazzwise has called him a "highly alternative Bobby McFerrin being." Roomet is also an Associate Professor of History of Philosophy at the University of Tartu.