Best Jazz Album & Top 5 Album of the Year
The Annual Latvian Music Recording Awards 2023/2024

Toms Rudzinskis - ABYSS

• 1.A Beginning
• 2.A Known Universe
• 3.Shadows Lurking
• 4.Captured
• 5.Into the Unknown
• 6.Into the Abyss
• 7.The Chaos of Being
• 8.The Darkest Night
• 9.Come with Me
• 10.Towards Light
• 11.Believe
• 12.Another Tomorrow
• 13.The End of the Beginning

Album Lineup

Toms Rudzinskis (Latvia), saxophone, compositions
Igor Osypov (Ukraine), electric guitar
Povel Widestrand (Sweden), keyboards
Tom Berkmann (Germany), electric bass
Fabian Rösch (Germany), drums
Mette Nadja Hansen (Denmark), voice

Reviews

5/5 ? “…saturated, multi-layered contemporary jazz looking into the spiritual and jazz-rock directions.. music that flows through consciousness letting one get carried away.. a conceptual work that attests to Rudzinskis’ new musical horizons.“ – Kaspars Zavileiskis, Music Sun

5/5 ? “ABYSS can be considered an elaborate large-scale jazz composition… where the ensemble’s cohesion and Rudzinska’s musically architectural vision can be fully appreciated. [..] The composer’s ability to step outside the traditional formal logic… is commendable and justifiable.” – Ēriks Miezis, JazzIn.lv

Toms Rudzinskis’ ABYSS spoke with creative imagination, emotional plasticity and intensity of the artistic dramaturgy. – Armands Znotiņš, The Latvian Grand Music Award juror in “Latvijas Avīze” newspaper