First of all - there are two CDs released that I was working on: Perpetual Motion by Amine and Hamza M'Raihi and Concept Art Orchestra Live in Prague.
Perpetual Motion is a lovechild of M'Raihis' great oud kanun and composing skills and my weird taste in writing for a string quartet. While arranging i was unaware that there aren't many (if any) examples of superimposing an active quartet over a decent arabic-rooted smoking-hot virtuosos. There are signs that it spoke to some people to an extent that the recording is nominated to some prestigious prizes and fares well in the world music charts.
The Concept Art Orchestra CD was released in Czech Republic by the Czech Radio, and it was a lot of fun to record, because it was a live concert in a great place: Jazz Dock is literally floating on the water in Prague. The second aspect of fun is that the recording features my composition that deals with big band overtones. That might have been the loudest composition i had pleasure to perform!

Chord Nation suite for a jazz orchestra with string quartet and electronics commissioned by Wrocław Philharmonic and Jazztopad Festival is being recorded - it premiered in november in Wrocław, and now we're in the middle of mixing it after an extensive recording session in Polish Radio. As soon as i will have a little bit of free time i will link some photos, reviews and video from the recording session. It may deserve its own page, eventually.
This is a great place to thank all the people involved in the process, and there were so many that it would be somewhat embarassing to omit somebody (what i fear).
Big thank You to
Witold Kołodziejczyk, Aga Kiepuszewska, Mateusz Pliniewicz, Gosia Warszawska, Błażej Domański, Karolina Skrzyńska, Janek Pawlak, Tomasz Tamborski, Jacek Dyrda, Piotr Damasiewicz, Piotr Turkiewicz, Adrian Podgórny, Ewelina Serafin, Benny Brown, Erwin żebro, Oskar Torök, štepanka Balcárova, Marcin Wołowiec, Mateusz Mendyka, Mateusz łysoń, Paweł Niewiadomski, Szymon Kamykowski, Dawid Główczewski, Marek Pospieszalski, Przemysław Florczak, Mariusz Pędziałek, Grzegorz Grzeszczyk, Maciej Szczyciński, Michał Bryndal, Piotr Wronka, VIP Catering, Katering Katowice, Polskie Radio Katowice, Academy of Music in Katowice and many more.

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