(...) the newest album of Olo Walicki requires the listener to get involved, as this is not an album you simply listen to – you participate.  

"Trauma Theater – Theater der Liebe" is some kind of contemplation based on great contrast. We hear characters who driven by the emotion of the moment throw heavy words, and all that is accompanied by soothing music (...), also, seemingly idyllic atmosphere is confronted with rather disturbing sounds (...). This ambiguity of good and bad shown in all those levels of affecting the listener is the greatest value of this album.

The concert promoting the newest work of Olo Walicki "Trauma Theater – Theater der Liebe" has shown that he truly is an extraordinary artist. He managed to combine musical and theatrical sensitivity and in this way create a whole new artistic quality.

It was created mostly by great playing of Walicki's new excellent group – especially with the drummer, Christian Lillinger's double role: musical and theatrical, as well as with Maciej Szupica's lighting design. 

(...) Olo Walicki astounds again. In my humble perception this artist has acquired an  extremely valuable skill to handle art on formal levels that soar above the content.

Rafal Ksiezyk / Dziennik

One of the most interesting Polish jazz musicians of the young generation, Olo Walicki recorded a great album "Kaszebe". That album with its sublime pop ballads sung in a disappearing language is a world's sensation.

Played with jazzy feel, produced with a claw of experiment and the lightness of pop narration – that's the recipe for "Kaszebe" (...)

Daniel Wyszogrodzki / Zwierciadlo

From the very first bass riff and from the first vocal phrases it becomes clear that we're listening to extraordinary music. And suddenly a recitation in a strange language begins... (...)

Olo Walicki proved that a region's folklore doesn't have to be archaic. In Wdzydze there's a heritage park, but on his album the music is contemporary through and through, with electronic clubby sounds, alternative rock enriched with the exposed bass and vocal parts. In our music market – collapsing and overwhelmed with "oratorios", the project "Kaszebe" strikes with its freshness. And joins the world's trend to reach for the cultural roots without pathos and falling into ethnography. 

Michal Padkowski / Portal Lodzki

It's an important and exceptional album. Olo Walicki is a musician whose talent grows in an exemplary way and his musical search puts him among the leaders of european jazz.  

(...) It is important for the audience to discover the musical culture of Kaszuby. So far this source of inspiration has not been explored as much as this region's traditions deserve. Olo Walicki blazes this trail and does it in a total way. 

(...) The music that has been created is one of the kind, beyond genres, unveiling the little known areas of Polish culture. It is a great artistic success. 

Janusz Jablonski / Tygodnik Powszechny

Olo Walicki has earned a position of one of the most solid bassists in Polish jazz, but he is also a fabulous composer and author of very original musical marriages. 

(...) I've been listening to "Kaszebe" for two weeks now, and after several times I still don't have enough of it, as a matter of fact, I am already putting it in the top spot in my private chart for album of the year.

Piotr Lewandowski / PopUp Magazine

(...) "Kaszebe" appears as a marvel, unique in the national, or maybe even world scale, but it's definitely not a folk project per se. 

(...) Along with his septet Walicki created music that is neither a re-interpretation of the Kaszubian tradition nor placing its fruit in a new context – it is a thoughtful, enchanting and a totally contemporary creation. 

Just the use alone of the open, improvised jazz forms in the intriguing song-like composition deserves recognition, just as much as the modern approach to jazzy sound and ethereal combination of acoustic instruments with the electric Chicago-like flavour – a method that is used, but hardly ever with such taste. 

"Kaszebe" is an album so beautiful, that one should perceive and appreciate it not through the contrast with archaic traditional culture, but for its independent value itself. Although it's hard to imagine this album without the Kaszubian context, it is essential how that background and inspiration have led to creating contemporary and sensitive music.