Our self-titled debut album “Groovosophers” has received a warm and thoughtful review from the Belgian jazz magazine Jazz’halo, written by Olivier Verhelst.
The reviewer is honest about the record’s boldest gesture — the synth-shaped guitar distortion with which guitarist and co-composer Filip Wyrwa opens the album — but notes that any initial resistance “melts away like snow in the sun” once “In Your Footprints”, dedicated to Wayne Shorter, begins.
Impossible to Put in One Box
Jazz’halo highlights what makes Groovosophers stand apart: a band that enjoys keeping the listener on the wrong foot and refuses to fit neatly into a single category. The review points to the “particularly solid and elaborate compositions” carried by the sometimes dominant bass of Marcin Essen, the discreet drums of Grzegorz Bauer and the Hammond organ of Grzegorz Madej, with Filip Wyrwa, saxophonist and co-composer Tomasz Karaszewski, and Satish Robertson on trumpet taking the lead.
Verhelst walks through the album track by track — from the virtuosity of Karaszewski on “BAA BAA”, through the album’s only slow piece “For All Those Who Have Passed”, to the wake-up punch of “Fury” and the cinematic closer “No Place To Hyde”. As he writes, the record “even grows as the needle or laser eye moves along, and that is no small feat.”
A Discovery
The review ends with high praise. Verhelst reserves the word “discovery” for only a handful of artists each year — and places Groovosophers among them, alongside names such as Kaito Winse, Theon Cross and Jovin Webb. His closing words: “Let them come back by all means!”
You can read the full review (in Dutch) here: Groovosophers – “Groovosophers” on Jazz’halo.
The debut album is available on CD in our online store and on all major streaming platforms.
— Groovosophers
October 30, 2026