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Gadt, Anna / Marta Grzywacz / Natalia Kordiak / Gosia Zagajewska: VoiceAct (Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!))

Recorded at Przeswit in Warsaw, Poland, Voiceact brings together Polish vocalists Anna Gadt, Natalia Kordiak, Marta Grzywacz, and Gosia Zagajewska in an avant exploration of the art of the voice, blending ancient music, contemporary classics, and folk influences across eleven improvised pieces that showcase a captivating range of vocal styles and possibilities.
 

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Anna Gadt-vocal

Marta Grzywacz-vocal

Natalia Kordiak-vocal

Gosia Zagajewska


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UPC: 5904441617627

Label: Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!)
Catalog ID: 11/2024
Squidco Product Code: 34871

Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2024
Country: Poland
Packaging: Cardboard Gatefold
Recorded at Przeswit in Warsaw, Poland, on August 31st, 2022, by Michal Kupicz.

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"In the beginning, was the voice, before there were instruments even the oldest ones - percussion! The voice has always been there, and when voices resound in a musical space, in a pure improvised creative act then extraordinary things happen! Such was the case when four outstanding vocalists Anna Gadt, Natalia Kordiak, Marta Grzywacz and Gosia Zagajewska met in the Warsaw space "Przeswit" to improvise a new unique sound world. Did they succeed? We think it succeeded more than great!!!!!!!!"-Fundacja Sluchaj



"Four individualities of Polish vocalism met to record an album devoted to the art of the voice.

Anna Gadt, Natalia Kordiak, Marta Grzywacz and Gosia Zagajewska tried to create in the recordings a new sound world. They told that story in eleven parts, and the whole album is three quarters of an hour long (with a small cover).

What is the result of this spontaneous process of creation ? Definitely (in a positive sense) the experience and versatility of all four artists who we know from stylistically diverse projects has paid off here.

"Voiceact", which is music of the vocal avant-garde, hides many layers, revealing references and inspirations that accompanied the vocalists during the recording of the material. Although this may just be an unmasking of the paths that the listener's imagination follows. For - without the slightest doubts - this album definitely stimulates

We move here from ancient music to modern contemporary classics. We look into folk. We follow a showcase of vocal styles and possibilities. A performance about Voice, and not just with the Voice in the lead role. A vocal act that is unusual and fascinating.

Four individualities of Polish vocalism met to record an album devoted to the art of the voice. Voiceact, which is music of the vocal avant-garde, hides many layers, revealing references and inspirations that accompanied the vocalists during the recording of the material. Although this may just be an unmasking of the paths that the listener's imagination follows. We move here from ancient music to modern contemporary classics. We look into folk. We follow a showcase of vocal styles and possibilities. A performance about Voice, and not just with the Voice in the lead role. A vocal act that is unusual and fascinating."-Jazz Suite


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Artist Biographies

"Anna Gadt, chanteuse, improviser, composer. A representative of the European jazz stage who combines free improvisation, classical music and contemporary jazz. She has recorded 5 original albums. In 2018 she has been nominated for the prestigious Polish Fryderyk Award for the best artist.The Grand Prix at Jazz Struggle, the international competition for singing musicians and the acclaim of Billy Harper, the head of jury, determined a breakthrough in her artistic work. She toured in France, Germany, Switzerland, Latvia, Slovakia, Poland. She participated in Polish Stage at Jazz European Conference. Apart from singing comprehended in traditional way, she seeks for the unusual sounds and techniques of performance. Her concept refers to the improvised music, in which there is no division into the accompanying band and the leader. Such a unity highlights the wealth of differences between the musicians and the value of mutual complementarity. The search for the common idea, the daring and spontaneous creation happening "here and now," become the aim."

-Anna Gadt Website (https://www.annagadt.pl/bio)
12/16/2024

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"Marta Grzywacz (1980) - mezzo: Improviser (voice, piano, movement). Graduate and a lecturer at Fryderyk Chopin University of Music. She perfected her performance and creative skills under the guidance of i.a. Szábolcs Esztény and Teresa Manasterska (improvisation, piano), at Anto Petts piano improvisation class and Anne Lis-Poll vocal improvisation class in Estonia as well as at the Jaques-Dalcroz Institute in Geneva. She won the 2nd Prize and the title of Instant Composer at the Transatlantic Festival for improvising composers in Poznań (2012). Since 2013 she is a member of Hashtag Ensemble, with which she recorded two albums "Visegrad Songs" (2015, Requiem Records) and "Witkacy" (2018). She recorded an album "Shahmat" with Tadeusz Sudnik and Andrzej Rejman in 2014 and she appeared as an improvising pianist and vocalist on The Intuition Orchestra's "Case of surprise" album in 2015. In 2017 she co-created and performed a piece by Wojciech Błażejczyk "Wytrącone z równowagi". In the same year she performed together with double-bassist Joëlle Léandr during Ad Libitum festival. She participated in Abner Preis performative project "Duch drzew". She sung vocal parts in the works of i.a. George Crumb, Ryszard Borkowski, Alejandro Iglesias Rossi, Wojciech Błażejczyk, Dariusz Przybylski, Agnieszka Stulgińska, Ignacy Zalewski. She performed at Warsaw Music Encounters, Musica Electronica Nova festival, Warsaw Autumn and Nowe Epifanie Festival."

-Hashtag Ensemble (http://hashtag-ensemble.org/marta-grzywacz-2/)
12/16/2024

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"Natalia Kordiak has been nominated for the "FRYDERYK 2020" award of the Polish Phonographic Academy in the PHONOGRAPHIC DEBUT OF THE YEAR - JAZZ category. Leader of her own band, who she has been working since 2019 (Natalia Kordiak Quintet "Bajka", Hevhetia, 2019) and co-founder of the TANŌK band, which she co-created with the Ukrainian jazz pianist Kateryna Ziabliuk. In music, she values ​​the authenticity of dialogue, being present and creating a space where the line between reason and madness blurs, and reality becomes an abstraction."

-Women in Jazz Media (https://womeninjazzmedia.com/new-releases/2023-02-25-natalia-kordiak-ytinamuh/)
12/16/2024

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"Gosia Zagajewska (born in 1987) Poet, vocalist.

She has received an honourable mention in competitions such as 14th Połów by Biuro Literackie, the 25th and 26th Jacek Bierezin Polish Poetry Competition, and in the 2nd Polish Literary Competition "Nowy Dokument Tekstowy". She has been published in biBLioteka, KONTENT, Drobiazgi, Tlen Literacki, Strona Czynna and in the "Głód" anthology published by the Institute of Literature. Her debut poetry collection was published in 2023.

She is active in the improvised music scene. She explores the use of the voice as an instrument in compositions created in real time. Considering the voice as the most primal and natural tool for creating sound, she tries not to limit herself to one vocal technique, but to diversify and expand forms of expression. She is a member of several bands, such as: Tuleje, Figa, Szpety, Casting Lots, Fantastic Swimmers, Warsaw Improvisers Orchestra, Word-Sound-Pool. The band Tuleje, which has been recently formed on her initiative, features double bassist Ksawery Wójciński and percussionist Wojciech Kurek. It is an intriguing new project exploring traditional music, improvisation and poetry, creating minimalist arrangements based on folk melodies from eastern Wielkopolska and contemporary lyrics. In 2022, the band's debut album was released by Gusstaff Records and gained an honourable mention in the Turniej Muzyków Prawdziwych Tournament.

She has appeared on many albums. She has performed at festivals such as Krakow Jazz Autumn, Warsaw Sound Sanatorium, Fortalicje, ECLAT Festival and Spontaneous Music Festival, as well as in Germany and the UK, including the legendary London club Cafe OTO. She has collaborated with artists such as Paulina Owczarek, Antonina Nowacka, Anna Jędrzejewska, Katarzyna Smoluk-Moczydłowska, Ray Dickaty, Emilio Gordoa, Piotr Dąbrowski and Alexey Vorsoba. She has collaborated with Ksawery Wójciński on a number of occasions, including his original series "Muzyczne DNA mojego domu. Trasa koncertowa do wewnątrz."(Musical DNA of my house. A tour inwards), and a joint composition "28" based on Prelude in E minor by Frédéric Chopin.

In 2022, she was awarded a scholarship by the Marshal of the Wielkopolska region and as a result led a series of original voice improvisation workshops 'Głosowanie'. During the classes, participants improvised on graphic scores and with her own simple gesture system.

For some time, she was associated with the Powszechny Theatre and the Strefa Wolnosłowa. As part of the multicultural project Atlas, she performed in the play "Narysowałam więcej, niż tu widać" (I drew more than you can see here), directed by Alicja Borkowska and staged on the small stage of the Powszechny Theatre, as well as at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin. She has translated scripts for French theatre groups. She founded the ephemeral multicultural collective Andakali Goveyu, which prepared the performance "Człowiek podstawowy"(Elementary man), as well as several improvised performances in the public space of Warsaw."

-Gosia Zagajewska Website (http://gosiazagajewska.pl/bio/)
12/16/2024

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Track Listing:



1. Part I 3:16

2. Part II 4:28

3. Part III 4:17

4. Part IV 7:15

5. Part V 2:40

6. Part VI 3:01

7. Part VII 5:02

8. Part VIII 5:27

9. Part IX 3:48

10. Part X 4:11

11. Part XI 4:20

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