Michał Wierba Doppelganger Project: Orange Sky

Modern Jazz
premiera polska: 2015-04-15
kontynent: Europa
kraj: Polska
opakowanie: plastikowe etui
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Michal Wierba Doppelganger Project is a New band formed by Michal Wierba, who is constantly following his own artistic path seeking individual sound and perfecting his musical workshop.

Michal Wierba: "It has been six years since my hard-bop odyssey started – I have released 5 albums which were highly valued by the critics, I have given lots of gigs – and then there was this moment when I said to myself – ‘That’s it! Enough. I don’t wanna do things I am used to anymore.’ I’ve gotten bored with what I had been doing until that point and so, I decided to regroup this time however involving guys from different music worlds… a sort of experiment."

After a few years of playing in Wierba&Schmidt Quintet, the pianist and composer Michal Wierba forms a new group with the piano as the leading instrument and the extended percussion section so unusual a mix on the Polish jazz music scene. While working on their first album, Patrycja Zarychta – a vocalist known for her stints with Leszek Mozdzer and Wojtek Pilichowski – joins the band. There’s also Arek Skolik – a legendary jazz drummer regarded by many as the king of swing and Lukasz Kurzydlo – one of the best drummers of the young generation, with particular interest in Latin American and Balkan music plus Kuba Dworak – a bassist bound up with both hip-hop and jazz music scene.

Michal Wierba: "Arek is a great drummer, a genuine jazz cat. The moment we first met I knew that, musically speaking, we were on the same wavelenght. We have both devoted loads of time to explore the roots of jazz to make reference to. Lukasz gives the music colour and precision, he deserves the credit for the band’s unique sound. Kuba is an incredibly mature bassist – he knows his role in the group – it’s a rare gift! Patti brings this unique lightness and fleeting beauty into it – great talent!."

Michal Wierba Doppelganger Project – Orange Sky – a debut album features eleven original compositions. Wierba makes an attempt to deconstruct jazz standards. This new approach gives us songs, fragmented interludes, quasi-romantic forms. All this falls into line with Wierba’s intention to create a truly unique and astonishing work which explores the fusion of jazz and world music.

Michal Wierba: "Orange Sky breaks with everything I’ve been doing so far. It’s an eclectic album and it might seem incoherent. I even thought… it’s like shuffle mode. I left my impress on every single piece but they all still differ. It was amazing to see how a de facto group meets in the recording studio to finish work within only one four-hour session."

Michal Wierba’s Doppelganger Project’s music can be described as a fusion between world music and jazz. One can find here fun quotes, convention, ties to tradition… but under this perfunctory layer the real beauty is hidden.


Michal Wierba (born February 13th, 1986 in Krakow, Poland) – piano, keyboards, composer and producer. In 2011 he graduated from the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music with Honours Degree while Wierba&Schmidt Quintet was nominated for Gwaracje Kultury Award in 2010. In 2013 Michal Wierba Doppelganger Project is formed, with which he is currently working on his sixth studio album for the Multi Kulti label.

Patrycja Zarychta - a performer, a vocalist, a 3rd year student of vocal jazz at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice. Patrycja has worked with Wojtek Pilichowski (Pi Electro Step, Pilichowski Band), Leszek Mozdzer, Leszek Cichonski, Nikola Kolodziejczyk, Kamil Baranski, Konrad Bilinski, Pareslow to mention just a few. As a guest vocalist, she joined Pilichowski Band in making Live in Kliczkow 2012 DVD. She trained her vocal under the watchful eyes of outstanding teachers such as Ela Zapendowska, Justyna Motylska, Beata Przybytek, Grzegorz Karnas, Ola Tabiszewska. She won number of festival and national contest awards.

Kuba Dworak - a 3rd year student of double bass under the supervision of Adam Kowalski at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice. He has taken part in a number of projects which led to associations with a variety of hip-hop, jazz and world music artists. He has worked with Benjamin Drazen Quartet, Mango Collective, PGR and Wierba&Schmidt Quintet.

Lukasz Kurzydlo - a qualified cellist and percussionist. He represented Poland at EXPO International Fair in Singapore in 2008. As a session musician he has performed with a number of bands playing jazz and world music. For the past few years he has been working closely with theatres in Krakow. He gained experience playing with Marek Balata, Gary Guthman, Tadeusz Lesniak, Rudi Shubert, Que Passa band and Renata Przemyk. Co-founder of Sokol Orkestar band and Tempero.

Arek Skolik - belongs to the circle of artists who do not try to be novel at all costs but would rather bow their heads to decades of tradition and weave their musical temperaments into it. Arek worked and performed with an impressive number of industry stars like Lee Konitz, Janusz Muniak, Tomasz Gwicinski, Leszek Mozdzer, Maciek Sikala, Tomasz Szukalski, Piotr Braon, Piotr Wojtasik, Krzysztof Popek, Jerzy Millan, John Zorn, Steve Logan, Urszula Dudziak, Michal Urbanik, Zbigniew Namyslowski, Tymon Tymanski, Jan Ptaszyn Wroblewski, Jacek Niedziela, Wojciech Niedziela, Shakin Dudi, Jaroslaw Smietana, Nigel Kennedy, Wojciech Karolak, Piotr Cieslikowski, Stanislaw Soyka and many others.

muzycy:
Michał Wierba – fortepiano, Fender Rhodes
Kuba Dworak - kontrabas
Łukasz Kurzydło - instr. klawiszowe
Patrycja Zarychta - śpiew (1, 4, 9)

utwory:
1. Wiosna
2. It’s Always Night (or We Wouldn’t Need Light)
3. Kora
4. Orange Sky
5. Yessenia
6. Summertime
7. The Peacocks
8. Sarcastic Fringehead
9. Do widzenia, do jutra
10. St. James Infirmary

wydano: 2015-04-15
more info2: michalwierba.org