Grzegorz Karnas - Karnas

Grzegorz Karnas
Karnas

Label: Fonografika, 2011
Catalogue No: 
Format: CD

Tracks:

1. zima
2. słodka
3. langue d’amour
4. passe ton tour
5. spytaj milicjanta
6. langue d’amour 2
7. summertime doubts
8. langue d’amour 3
9. commuting obsessions
10. roxanne
11. słodka – reprise
12. what do you say and why?
13. fin d'été
14. on a heal-out
15. langue d’amour 4
16. black crow
17. język miłości
18. trois visages
19. zima - reprise
20. bonus tracks 
21. the well (bonus track on 2LP edition)
22. you can’t be telling lies (bonus track on 2LP edition)

Line up:

Grzegorz Karnas – vocal, voices
Michał Tokaj - piano
Adam Oleś - cello
Michał Jaros - bass
Sebastian Frankiewicz – drums

About:

Vocalist Grzegorz Karnas's latest album, titled “Karnas”, is a one-of-a-kind mixture of 'borrowed songs' and original compositions by this outstanding alternative performer, whose creativity draws from a broad range of musical genres which, by virtue of his tremendous expressiveness, unique lyrics and exquisite playing on the part of the band, are fused into a single, coherent, jazz-based whole.
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It’s been more than fourteen years since Grzegorz Karnas started his own bands. His project in concert is either a quartet or a quintet, and though its instrumental line-up (drums, acoustic bass, piano, cello and vocal) could portend somewhat of a mainstream adventure, it is far removed from the classical paradigm, although Karnas loves to perform jazz standards. The group like drawing on the trance -like nature of ostinatos and the abstraction of modal playing, developed on the basis of simple and catchy melodic themes. A brief, general outline of Grzegorz Karnas’s Vocal Cello Quintet in concert would be: energy-filled, groovy, acoustic music-making with a hefty dose of improvisation, at times almost bordering on musical nonchalance.