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aranżacja: Grekow.Chołołowicz
oprócz 3 i 8 - kompozycja Grekow.Chołołowicz

Jacek Grekow: Akordeon, tarambuka.
Piotr Chołołowicz: Akordeon, tarambuka.
Nadja Klinčarova: śpiew

I recently received this very interesting and unique CD to review. I'll try to describe ist musical content in brief: Macedonian, Bulgarian, Polish, Russian and Gypsy folk motives and themes are arranged and performed on tzo button (chromatic) accordions. Some other folk instruments are used too (tarambuka, bagpipes) as well as vocals. Rhythms are typically Balcan and South Slavic rhythms: 9/8; 7/8; 6/8. South Slavic motives and rhythms are something I have grown up with, but on this recording they are brought up to a level of very fine art. Technically, all the pieces are performed with great ease along with amazing tone and bellows control. Stylistically, Piotr and Jacek play with a lot of feeling and sensibility, their phrases „breath" and „sing" and are so refined that it touches you emotionally. One cannot be critical of their performances. In general Balcan folk music needs a very strong bass pulse and a colourful variety of different rhythms (often Poly-Rhythms). In the pieces where vocals appear it gives them very special feeling of deepness and melancholy. I would even dare to say Slavic melancholy! The vocals are also excellent! At one point these fine musicians used the theme from the last movement of Zolotariev's Sonata No 3, which they do so with tastefulness and style. An absolutely brilliant CD!
Tania Lukić Marx (Australien) im Internet (5. Juni 1998) http://www.accordions.com/index/art/cd_98_06_05.shtml


Grekow teams up with accordionist Piotr Chololwicz to present arrangements and original compositions. The two collaborated to create Kyrillikata I and Kyrillikata II-- clearly the most exciting and complex pieces on this CD. Kyrillikata I alternates between chorale-like sections and energetic, percussive dance-like sections. The wordless vocals of Nadja Klincarova are introduced in a sustained chorale section. Nadja's voice has a theremin quality that is haunting. Toward the end of the piece, Grekows puts do.......
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CD KYRILLIKATA - projekt muzyki bałkańskiej zaaranżowanej i skomponowanej na dwa koncertowe akordeony. Zrealizowany w Wiedniu w latach 1996-1998. Projekt wsparty finansowo przez KulturKontakt Austria i Wiener Intergrationsfond.

Zespół Kyrillikata, koncertował wielokrotnie w Austrii, Polsce i Niemczech, a muzyka z płyty CD Kyrillikata znalazła uznanie w Wiedeńskim radiu OE1 gdzie była wielokrotnie prezentowana.

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I recently received this very interesting and unique CD to review. I'll try to describe ist musical content in brief: Macedonian, Bulgarian, Polish, Russian and Gypsy folk motives and themes are arranged and performed on tzo button (chromatic) accordions. Some other folk instruments are used too (tarambuka, bagpipes) as well as vocals. Rhythms are typically Balcan and South Slavic rhythms: 9/8; 7/8; 6/8. South Slavic motives and rhythms are something I have grown up with, but on this recording they are brought up to a level of very fine art. Technically, all the pieces are performed with great ease along with amazing tone and bellows control. Stylistically, Piotr and Jacek play with a lot of feeling and sensibility, their phrases „breath" and „sing" and are so refined that it touches you emotionally. One cannot be critical of their performances. In general Balcan folk music needs a very strong bass pulse and a colourful variety of different rhythms (often Poly-Rhythms). In the pieces where vocals appear it gives them very special feeling of deepness and melancholy. I would even dare to say Slavic melancholy! The vocals are also excellent! At one point these fine musicians used the theme from the last movement of Zolotariev's Sonata No 3, which they do so with tastefulness and style. An absolutely brilliant CD!
Tania Lukić Marx (Australien) im Internet (5. Juni 1998) http://www.accordions.com/index/art/cd_98_06_05.shtml


Grekow teams up with accordionist Piotr Chololwicz.......
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