Agata Pisko, Werner Radzik - Polish Touch (2015)

Tracklist

01. All I Want
02. Chelsea Bridge
03. So Reminding Me
04. Kochaj Tylko Mnie
05. Time Economy
06. Then I'll Be Tired of You
07. Czy to Jest Milosc
08. Throw It Away
09. Midnight Sun
10. Flor de lis
11. Wasted



„Polish Touch“ – a chic collection of jazz songs with Werner Radzik – piano, Agata Pisko – voice, and two special guests: Axel Mayer – trumpet and flugehorn, and Bernhard Wimmer – cajon.

Songs of singers and piano players such as Joni Mitchell, Keith Jarrett, Radka Toneff, Billy Strayhorn, Djavan, Johnny Mercer, Emanuel Schlechter have inspired Agata Pisko and Werner Radzik to create an elegant and intimate project of piano and voice. Agata’s delicate and flexible voice has a unique fancy flavor of a European singer who sings lyrics from the Great American Songbook. With no doubt, however, you can hear the influence of the jazz masters Agata had a chance to study with, such as Mark Murphy, Sheila Jordan, Madeline Eastman, Rebecca Parris.

Inspired by sound and structure of jazz vocal music, Agata has begun to compose music and write clever lyrics on her own. On this record, you are going to find two compositions of hers: a jazz waltz with a Polish lyric and a touch of Polish folk music “Czy to jest milosc?’, and a boogaloo ‘Time Economy’.

Werner Radzik is with no doubt a first class jazz instrumentalist, a highly sought after pianist and arranger. On this CD you will get to know him as being a careful accompanist and a brilliant soloist.

To make the music more intense, Agata and Werner invited some of the finest Austrian musicians to be featured in a few songs. You will hear fabulous Axel Mayer on trumpet and flugelhorn in the ballad “Then I’ll Be Tired Of You” and “Time Economy”, and expressive Bernhard Wimmer on cajon in “Time Economy” and in the jazz waltz “Czy to jest milosc?“.

“Polish Touch” is a fresh project of two experienced musicians with Polish roots: Agata originally comes from Krakow and has lived in Austria since the beginning of her studies at Kunst Uni Graz in 1999; Werner, an Austrian musician, on the other hand, has had Polish ancestors – his grandmother came from Warsaw.

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