Marek Pospieszalski

DIGIPACK EDITION

Marek Pospieszalski continues the project dedicated to the twentieth-century Polish school of composition, this time focusing on the works of women. Starting from the String Quartet No. 1 by Grazyna Bacewicz, to the first compositions by Agata Zubel. Just like on the well-received first album, here too the octet does not use scores, the main emphasis is on collective improvisation. Original compositions are a pretext to create impressions on the basis of great works that tell about the current times, as evidenced by the use of means from the world of sound design, noise and electronic music.

This time the forms of the works are concise, but full of sudden twists, multicolored, and sometimes radical like the work of Polish female composers. It is a great opportunity to present eleven outstanding artists, e.g. Barbara Buczek, Elzbieta Sikora, Grazyna Pstrokonska-Nawratil and Marta Ptaszynska. The title of the new album was taken from „A Song on the End of the World", a composition by Agata Zubel to words by Czeslaw Milosz, and it seems to resonate strongly today.

PERSONNEL:

• Marek Pospieszalski - (soprano, alto & tenor saxophone, clarinet)
• Piotr Checki - (tenor & baritone saxophone)
• Tomasz Dabrowski - (trumpet)
• Tomasz Sroczynski - (viola)
• Szymon Mika - (electric & acoustic guitar)
• Grzegorz Tarwid - (piano)
• Max Mucha - (double bass)
• Qba Janicki - (drums & soundboard)

TRACKS:

• 01) Sikora (Variations on a theme by Elzbieta Sikora „Rappel III")
• 02) Matuszczak (Variations on a theme by Bernadetta Matuszczak „Libera Me")
• 03) Dlugoszewski (inspired on „Angel of the Inmost Heaven” by Lucia Dlugoszewski)
• 04) Bacewicz (Variations on a theme by Grazyna Bacewicz „Tema con Variazioni” from 1st string Quartet)
• 05) Buczkówna (Variations on a theme by Barbara Buczek „Les Sons Esoteriques")
• 06) Kulenty (Variations on a theme by Hanna Kulenty „Breathe")
• 07) Moszumanska-Nazar (Variations on a theme by Krystyna Moszumanska-Nazar „Rapsod II")
• 08) Pstrokonska-Nawratil (Variations on a theme by Grazyna Pstrokonska-Nawratil „El Condor”)
• 09) Ptaszynska (Variations on a theme by Marta Ptaszynska „A Winter’s Tale")
• 10) Zubel/No other end of the world will there be (Variations on a theme by Agata Zubel „Piosenka O Koncu Swiata”)