muzycy:
Grzech Piotrowski: saxophone, duduk
Bram Stadhouders: guitar, guitarsynth
Michal Baranski: bass
Onno Govaert: drums

Editor's info:
Grzech Piotrowski is with no doubt one of the most interesting personalities in the Polish music world. The figure, which is difficult to close in the concrete frame, because it is a saxophonist, record producer, arranger and publisher (Alchemist Studio). The winner of hearts and awards, a prolific creator and defiant, hailed as the hope of Polish jazz. Balancing on the edge of jazz, folk, new impressionism, film music, nu-jazz and emotronic. Its open stage personality makes the concerts attract people and the music goes directly to the interior. Feature of its formation is that exude power, lyricism, nostalgia, musical metaphor and reverie. At the same time are full of humor and musical distance. He strongly emphasizes that his music is deeply rooted in Polish tradition, Eastern and Balkan folklore and the classics. (source: nor-pol.net)

After listening to the music of Bram Stadhouders and Onno Govaert on myspace, Grzech Piotrowski invited the duo for a serie of 6 concerts in Poland. This was such a success that they recorded a lot of their own music in the studio, right after these concerts. The result can be heard on "EMOQ".


In 1997, along with Robert Luty and Marcin Murawski, Grzech founded the Alchemist, who immediately became a revelation on the Polish jazz scene. The result was the concerts in Europe and numerous awards at jazz festivals in Poland (Jazz on the Oder-Grand Prix, the Jazz Juniors in Krakow, Pomeranian Jazz Autumn-Grand Prix) and most important - the Grand Prix at the Festival Jazz Hoeilaart 1997 in Belgium. The band released three albums in succession: Acoustic Jazz Sextet (1998), Sphere whispers (2001), Dracula in Bucharest (2004). In 2000, also created a very original band, "Oxen" playing music in the style of M-Basic, resulting in the album "Nexo" (2002). This team grew in 2007 to the size of Big Band, and took the name of Big Oxen Band.

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Grzech Piotrowski, lider formacji Alchemik, utalentowany kompozytor, aranżer i saksofonista często bywa nazywany polskim Janem Garbarkiem. Płyta "Archipelago" wydana przez cenioną holenderską wytwornię jazzową Challenge Jazz, dla której wydają takie sławy jak Enrico Pieranunzi, John Abercrombie, Jim Hall, Lee Konitz, Marc Copland, Kenny Wheeler, Rick Margitza czy Toots Thielemans ma szansę wypromować Piotrowskiego poza granicami naszego kraju.

Grzech Piotrowski znany jest głównie jako lider i "mózg" grupy Alchemik. Ukończył AM w Katowicach, na wydziale Jazzu i Muzyki Rozrywkowej. Stworzył studio nagraniowe "Studio Alchemii" oraz wydawnictwo Studio Alchemik. Założył Kameralną Orkiestrę Smyczkową Alchemik.

Nagrany w międzynarodowym składzie album: Grzech Piotrowski-saksofon tenorowy i duduk, Bram Stadhouders-gitara elektryczna, Michał Barański-kontrabas, Onno Govaert-perkusja to najlepszy jak dotąd album tego muzyka, zawiera tyle, jakiegoś trudnego do określenia słowami, uroku, że trudno nie poddać się tej magii. Piękna płyta o delikatnie etnicznym charakterze, pełna jest niesamowitego liryzmu, melancholii i spokoju. Jeśli prawdą jest ta obiegowa opinia, że Piuotrowski jest polskim Janem Garbarkiem to ta płyta jest tego koronnym dowodem.


Editor's info:
Grzech Piotrowski is with no doubt one of the most interesting personalities in the Polish music world. The figure, which is difficult to close in the concrete frame, because it is a saxophonist, record producer, arranger and publisher (Alchemist Studio). The winner of hearts and awards, a prolific creator and defiant, hailed as the hope of Polish jazz. Balancing on the edge of jazz, folk, new impressionism, film music, nu-jazz and emotronic. Its open stage personality makes the concerts attract people and the music goes directly to the interior. Feature of its formation is that exude power, lyricism, nostalgia, musical metaphor and reverie. At the same time ar.......
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