Ale to wchodzi w ucho! Świetna rzecz. Brawo!

Встреча С Дадой Саданандой 07.02.21

“There was I, there was I, knee-deep in heaven, 
but it was for you, my dear, that I did return”

There exist many heavens: “the starry heavens above”, “heavenly taste”, “seventh heaven”. There are “sometime-somewhere” heavens and “here-and-now” heavens; and occasionally (quite by chance) you can fall in and find yourself ankle-deep, knee-deep, ear-deep in heaven.

Can you experience heaven if you do not believe in its existence? It seems to me that the symbolic space of heaven has disappeared from dinner table discussions, from the media, from the public discourse; it has been superseded by notions of “success” and “pleasure”. And because nature abhors a vacuum, the void left by heaven has been replaced with sadness. Those who lack an appetite for life do not know – perhaps because they have not experienced it, or because nobody showed them the way or told them about it – that it is possible to end up knee-deep in heaven.

I hope the these tiny, imperfect reflections of heaven will inspire you to take rhythmic steps on the ground and, at the same time, take a bold look to the skies. 

Janusz Prusinowski

Knee-Deep In Heaven / Po Kolana W Niebie NEW ALBUM

Un jour en Normandie


Produced and mixed by Martin Bowes (Attrition).

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Rise Of A Future Generator

Kaja i Janusz Prusinowscy
Wstały dusze - pieśń o wędrówce dusz. Nagranie na zamówienie Muzeum Mazowieckiego w Płocku -2015

Wstały Dusze zapłakały

La Machine
extraits de l'album "Il est encore temps"
AEPEM, 2007

Mazurka gazaouie

Rondeau inspired by the wonderful place and people at Sol Ribaldo, home of the Zap Fest. Thank you, my friends! Cover photo by Rossella Francesconi

Ribaldeau (Rondeau en chaine)

Melodie tradycyjne z repertuaru Kapeli Sowów z Piątkowej.
Mateusz Niwiński - skrzypce I, śpiew
Iga Wasilewska - skrzypce II
Jacek Mielcarek - klarnet, śpiew
Agnieszka Niwińska - baraban
Jakub Mielcarek - kontrabas

Sowy

Recorded by an ORTF setup (Schoeps CCM4x2) on a Sound Devices Mixpre6
Original recording in Wave, 96k, 24bit
GPS: -22.392431,-44.553263
Sound Ref:  BR-190812-07
Recorded during the Interativos 2019 organized by Silo
Download on Freesound here https://freesound.org/people/felix.blume/sounds/479286/

Toads during the night in a pound, in Serrinha do Alambri (Brazil)

Nagranie z koncertu w Polskim Radio.

Fot. G. Śledź/Polskie Radio (fragment)

Wiwat Pan Jezus / Kaja Prusinowska & Janusz Prusinowski Kompania

Gaal Gaa Ngi Rëbbi

Janusz Prusinowski Kompania (formerly: Janusz Prusinowski Trio) is a group of musicians who follow in traditions of village masters they have learned from: Jan Lewandowski, Kazimierz Meto, Józef Zaraś, Piotr and Jan Gaca, Tadeusz Kubiak and many others – but they are also an avant-garde band with their own characteristic sound and language of improvisation. They combine music with dance and the archaic with the modern.

The Kompania’s unique style is the result of their attempt to find new ways of interpreting the most important elements of village music from central Poland. It brings together mazurkas – sung, played, danced to, improvised live – and modern man. What new quality can be given to archaic and seemingly simple melodies and rhythms without resorting to trendy sample mixing? It turns out that traditional music of Polish villages can be a reference point for a variety of genres: reminiscent of Chopin in its melodic pattern and the use of rubato, sharing a love of improvisation with blues and jazz, evocative of contemporary music in its tone, and possessing the expressiveness of rock music.

Between 2008 and 2012 the band performed in most of European countries, Asia, Canada, the USA (including Carnegie Hall and Chicago Symphony Center) – and of course Poland. Besides playing concerts with traditional Polish music the band prepared a special programme of performances “The village roots of Frédéric Chopin’s music” with pianist Janusz Olejniczak. In 2012 Kompania begun a unique project "Kujawy” with three masters of Polish music: Tadeusz Kubiak, Tomasz Stańko, Janusz Olejniczak, and a group of singers led by Ewa Grochowska.The group also performed with Michał Urbaniak, Artur Dutkiewicz and Alim Qasimov. Apart of concerts, Kompania’s music can be heard at the parties of village and urban Dance Clubs or theatrical performances at the Polish National Theatre and the Polish Radio Theatre. They also run musical and dance workshops. In 2008 the band released “Mazurkas”, an album which received rave reviews. This was followed in 2010 by their second album “Heart”. 

In October 2012 Janusz Prusinowski Kompania performed at the prestigious world music fair – WOMEX 2012 in Thessaloniki. In 2013 they spent a full month in USA with close to 30 concerts, and having seduced American audience with mazurek, they reached for Germany, France, Benelux, Great Britain, Croatia and a couple of other countries, everywhere leaving dedicated lovers of wild Polish melodies behind. They’ve also returned to Womex (Cardiff 2013) with the „Wild Music of the Heart of Poland” project, created to present Polish traditional music to the international audience. In 2014 Kompania is involved in various events of Oskar Kolberg’s Year. Currently promoting also their new album, named - and putting the listener - "Knee-deep in Heaven”. 

At present the band members include:

Janusz Prusinowski – fiddle, voice, dulcimer, Polish accordion 
Piotr Piszczatowski – baraban drum, frame drum
Michał Żak – wooden flutes, shawm, clarinet
Piotr Zgorzelski – folk bass, dancing
Szczepan Pospieszalski – trumpet
 

"I learned my first kujawiak from my father. After that it was blues and the electric guitar, and then in an Andrzej Bieńkowski film I heard the Józef Kędzierski band. It was a revelation: the authenticity, intensity and ease that I had been looking for throughout the world existed right here, beside me – in my own language and the musical phrases belonging to it. I started visiting village musicians and became fascinated with mazureks, getting to know a whole world around them. It turned out that almost every musician puts his fingers in different places, which means playing different sounds, in different scales. Of course there are lines and schools of musicians, but human life is long enough for a unique style to evolve, especially if someone plays at three weddings per week".
Janusz Prusinowski

Wiwat Pan Jezus / Kaja Prusinowska & Janusz Prusinowski Kompania

Prusinowski Kompania

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