Ewelina Grygier

Szplin

Release date: 24 December 2019
Catalogue number: CM 1029 | Format: CD | Box: digipack
Album type: studio | Genre: Ethnic
Publisher: CM Records
Total time: 56:12
EAN:
  5907996083725

 

Szplin is a solo album by Ewelina Grygier, a flutist known from groups such as Danar and Usłyszeć Taniec. It includes a collection of her own compositions inspired by traditional music, a combination of genuine acoustic sound with ethno jazz improvisation.

1. Fisela Jig / Lockenhaus no. 1
2. Midnight Tune / Sen Waldemara
3. Szplin (Zimowy dzik jig / Ton simple plinn)

4. Liesinger Waltz
5. Night Train / VPE Reel (Vita Pulchra Est)
6. Hasziwa habajta (The Homecoming)
7. Blue Jig / Trip to Pakistan
8. Szczurołap z Hameln (Pied Piper of Hamelin) 1
9. Szczurołap z Hameln (Pied Piper of Hamelin) 2
10. Loar
11. Azulejos / Shakti Reel
Bonus track: Dans De L'ours

Musicians:

Ewelina Grygier – Wooden traverso flute (D, Eb), tin whistle (D), kalimbas

Jan Kłoczko acoustic guitar, double bass, Irish bouzouki, piano, arrangements

Wiktor Bartczak – banjo, mandolin

Patrycja Betley – frame drum, small percussions

Tomasz Biela – electric guitar

Wojtek Braszak – tenor saxophone

Paul Dangl – violin

Patryk Hołoga - bodhrán, bongos, djembe, cajón, udu, small percussions

Maja Kłoczko – cornet

Wiosna Kłoczko – tuba

Damian Marat – trumpet

Małgorzata Mycek – vox

Cornelia Tin Whistle Group - Łukasz Bobiński, Wojciech Brzustowski, Justyna Brzustowska, Jan Kociszewski, Maja Kunkowska, Zuzanna Mateńczuk, Tymoteusz Piechowiak, Eryk Ryński, Hanna Solecka, Marta Szabelska, Wiktoria Wielanek.

 

About the artist:

Ewelina Grygier (born in 1985, Poznań) – flutist, ethnomusicologist, engaged in diverse musical activities. Professionally, Ewelina digitalises archival recordings of Polish traditional music for the Phonographic Collection of the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences. As a journalist and a critic she cooperates among others with magazines “Ruch Muzyczny”, “Pismo Folkowe” as well as the Institute of Music and Dance, for which she runs a blog about musical traditions (blog.tradycjemuzyczne.imit.org.pl). Between 2012 and 2016 she taught simple-system wooden flute in Trad Music Workshop in Austria. Ewelina works as a lecturer on world music in Jazz and Stage Music Department of F. Chopin Music University in Warsaw, she also teaches the tin whistle in Cornelia Tin Whistle Group operating on behalf of the Education for Security Foundation. As an instrumentalist, Ewelina have cooperated with numerous individual artists and groups e.g. Danar, GreenWood, Macalla Trio, Warsaw Gamelan Group, Halina Mlynkova. She currently tours with a dance-and-music project Usłyszeć Taniec. Ewelina plays Gilles Lèhart flutes and tin whistles from Goldfinch Whistles.