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World Orchestra "Live in Gdansk" - Trailer Music, www.worldorchestra.org

Grzech Piotrowski "Spring" - from album Six Seasons
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GRZECH PIOTROWSKI WORLD ORCHESTRA 
LIVE IN GDAŃSK 

New DVD/CD available from 26th november 
Label : Universal Music

Grzech Piotrowski’s World Orchestra reaches to the roots of the music. To the world music, the ancient improvisation from the times when the sheet music was nonexistent.

When the fathers passed their fathers’ knowledge on to their sons, continuing musical traditions of many generations. Despite civilization development the music is the only universal language on the planet. It’s the language of soul that we all know subconsciously. Its beauty is able to move each and everyone, irrespectively of age, religion, continent or wealth.

The instruments used by the World Orchestra as such are unique.
The musicians play the long forgotten instruments. Sound of the symphonic orchestra gets ornamented with: Armenian duduk, Bulgarian kaval, Moldavian tsymbaly, kurai played by Bashkir people, lyre, harp, Finnish kantele, zither, and Tunisian oud or udu. Vocal techniques used by e.g. Ruth
Wilhelmine Meyer, Bulgarian Voices Angelite, Sainkho Namtchylak or Sinikka Langeland reach for vocal traditions used by the ancient singers from Bulgaria (open-throat singing), Lapland (joik), Tuva, Mongolia, Japan, Norway (throat singing).

The world scale curiosity are instruments of a Norwegian drummer, Terje Isungset, who is famous for playing instruments made of ice (ice-music). IN the World Orchestra Isungset plays the hand-made percussion instruments, made of wood and stones. In the orchestra even a popular saxophone (played by Grzech Piotrowski) is a rarely seen “twisted” soprano from 1918…

World Orchestra is much more than just a modernly arranged Project, using rare instruments: it is a musical journey, full of space, subtle emotions and magic; it’s a consistent cooperation of rich personalities and pulsating temperaments, a dialogue between tradition and modernity; between musical cultures of the world and the XXI century commonness, energy and contemplation.
The biggest asset of the project is the undisputable virtuosity of the artists, and a joy of playing music that is still alive despite many years of stage experience.


Few words from Grzech Piotrowski about World Orchestra :

" The idea was very brave and came to live in high-school times. It was a dream of gathering virtuosos, sound alchemists, representing different cultures and playing rare instruments on one stage; of going back to the music of the world, ancient improvisation from the times when there was no sheet music, when fathers used to pass their knowledge on to their sons.  
 
It was a dream of improvising together with singers from Tuva, Mongolia, Scandinavia, with those living behind the Polar Circle or in Bulgaria; of colliding roots of the music of the world with jazz, impressionism and film music; of finally discovering today masters of such instruments as kaval, duduk, kurai, Moldavian dulcimer, harp or Finish kantele.   

Preparation of the World Orchestra took me 18 years. In that time I played concerts all over the world, met outstanding artists from distant countries, my knowledge was growing rich, I collected new contacts and skills in order to be able to rise to this challenge. I established several music bands, such as Alchemik, Oxen, Emotronica, Archipelago, Dekonstrukcja Jazzu and Freedom Nation, which helped me find my own music path. I worked as a music producer (concerts for TVP2, TVP2, CD'S for EMI,SONY,UNIVERSAL,Polish Radio, TV Shows for TVN) and publisher (Alchemic Records). I am also quite a popular sideman and I participated in more than hundred artistic and commercial projects.  

Celebrations of the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Grunwald in 2010 and the concert played in the Olsztyn Cathedral gave me an impulse to establish the World Orchestra. All the contacts collected throughout the years came in handy. In the summer 2010, 6 months of work on music, concerts and logistics fructified in the first tour in Poland and Russia. In 2011 the World Orchestra played for 5000 people during the “Cracow jazz night” festival and performed in Ljubljana in Slovenia on the occasion of the Polish EU presidency.

However, the biggest challenge was participation of the World Orchestra in the Solidarity of
Arts 2011 festival in Gdansk. The project culminated gathering on one stage 80 artists from Poland, Norway, Russia, Bulgaria, Bashkiria, Holland, Siberia and Moldova.   

The World Orchestra evades frames and standards. It is a music journey full of space, subtle emotions and magic. Its music is described by critics and listeners as “the language of a soul that we all subconsciously know, the beauty of which is able to move everyone irrespectively of age, religion, continent or wealth.”


BIO :

Grzech is one of the more interesting personages in the Polish music world. It’s a figure difficult to be taken into specific frames as he is a saxophone player, musical producer, arranger, publisher (Alchemic Records), and the owner of “Mała i czarna" Warsaw jazz club in one.
Winner of many prestigious awards (for example-Grand Prix Hoilaart Jazz Festival 1998), a very prolific musician, balancing on the edge of jazz, folk, new impressionism and film music. His open stage personality attracts people and his music finds its way directly to their soul.
The characteristic features of Grzech’s formations are energy, lyrics, nostalgia, musical metaphor and meditation. At the same time they are full of humor and musical distance. The artist stresses out that his music is deeply rooted in the Polish tradition, Eastern and Balkan folk and in classical music.
Grzech cooperates with, among others: Eivind Aarset, Ruth Wilhelmine Meyer, Terje Isungset, Sainkho Namtchylak, Arild Andersen, Jon Christensen, Jorn Simen Overli, Theodosii Spassov, Bulgarian Voices Angelite, Siergiej Starostin, Taisa Krasnopevtseva, Lars Andreas Haug, Espen Leite Skarpengland, Mohammad Reza Mortazavi, Taner Akyol, Wu Wei, Azat Bikchurin, Sinikka Langeland, Marcin Wasilewski, Vladiswar Nadishana, Bram Stadhouders, Marcel Comendant and with other bands, such as: Grzech Piotrowski World Orchestra, Akku, Karuzela Group, Nor Pol, Alchemik, Oxen.

 


H I S T O R Y:
In 1997, together with Robert Luty and Marcin Murawski Grzech established Alchemic band that in an instant turned out to be a real revelation on the Polish jazz scene. The effect of their cooperation were concerts in the whole Europe and numerous awards received at jazz festivals in Poland(Jazz nad Odrą-Grand Prix, Jazz Juniors in Krakow, Pomorska Jesień Jazzowa-Grand Prix), and the most important one - Grand Prix at the Jazz Hoeilaart 1997 festival in Belgium.
The formation released three albums: Acoustic Jazz Sextet (1998), Sfera?szeptów (2001), Dracula in Bucharest (2004).
In 2000 another highly original formation is born. It is called Oxen and plays M-Basic music, releasing its first album Nexo (2002). In 2007 the formation grows to the size of a Big Band and takes up the name Big Oxen Band.
Further musical steps taken by Grzech are his solo albums: "Sin" (2005) and?"Emotronica" (2009) that were received with very good reviews and proved that he is a musician following his unique and original path.
In 2007 the artist won Grand Prix at the Two Theatres Festival in Sopot for the original music for the Scvorecki’s theatrical play “Bass Saxophone". The award was the crowning of Piotrowski's many year cooperation with the Polish Radio Theatre.
Turn of 2009-2010 brought the artist new challenges in the form of several European project, such as:

GRZECH PIOTROWSKI QUARTET - ARCHIPELAGO
Poland / Holand (emotronic, lyrical, electronic free)
    •    Grzech Piotrowski-sax,duduk
    •    Bram Stadhouders-git,synth git,laptop
    •    Onno Govaert-drums
    •    Michal Baranski-bass


GRZECH PIOTROWSKI WORLD ORCHESTRA

(jazz, trad, ethno, world, new impresionism)


Special guests : Jon Christensen - drums (Norway) Arild Andersen - bass (Norway) Sinikka Langeland - kantela, voc (Norway)

    •    Grzech Piotrowski-ss,ts,duduk (Poland)
    •    Ruth Wilhelmine Meyer-voc (Norway)
    •    Siergiej Starostin (Russia)
    •    Taisa Krasnopevtseva (Russia)
    •    Sainkho Namtchylak-voc (Tuva)
    •    Theodosii Spassov-kaval (Bulgaria)
    •    Espen Leite Skarpengland-acc (Norway)
    •    Lars Andreas Haug-tuba (Norway)
    •    Rahul Pophali-tabla (Indie)
    •    Terje Isungset-percussion,drums (Norway)
    •    Marcin Wasilewski-piano (Poland)
    •    Azat Bikchurin-kurai (Bashkiria,Ural)
    •    Vladiswar Nadishana-multiinstr (Syberia)
    •    Bram Stadhouders-guitar,lyra (Holand)
    •    Marcel Comendant-tsymbals (Moldavia)
    •    Sandra Kopijkowska-harfa (Poland)
    •    Michał Barański-bass (Poland)
    •    Robert Luty-drums (Poland)
    •   Jan Pilch-percussion (Poland)
    •    Alchemik String Orchestra (Poland)
        

AKKU - Norway
    •    Ruth Wilhelmine Meyer-voc
    •    Elfi Sverdrup-voc
    •    Lars Andreas Haug-tuba
    •    Grzech Piotrowski-sax,duduk
    •    Knut Aalefjaer-drums

KARUZELA GROUP  ,  Norway / Poland?(utwory A.Osieckiej po Norwesku i Polsku)
    •    Tora Augestad-voc
    •    Jorn Simen Overli-voc
    •    Joanna Lewandowska-voc
    •    Espen Leite Skarpengland-accordeon
    •    Grzech Piotrowski-saxes,duduk
    •    Sebastian Wypych-bass
    •    Paal Hausken-dr
    •    Cikada String Quartet

NOR-POL Bridge ,  Norway / Poland
    •    Arild Andersen-bass
    •    Jon Christensen-dr
    •    Marcin Wasilewski-piano
    •    Grzech Piotrowski-sax
    •    Frode Barth-guit

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