Marcin Olak Quartet at New Jewish Music Festival at Muzeum Polin

..." It has all begun with music of Bessarabian Jews - BTW. Bessarabia is a historical region in Eastern Europe, it used to be between Dniestr and Prut rivers, where Moldova an Ukraine are now. Bessarabia is gone, and so is its music - I had to look for it in old scores and recordings. Found tunes were incorporated in modern compositions - it's jazz, mixed with contemporary improvised music. I started writing that suite in December 2015, finished in January 2016. Everything was recorded live - no editing, overdubs or studio magic of any kind was used - on March 3rd, in NInA (Warsaw, PL) and mixed by Michał Kupicz. We worked under big pressure, we wanted to have album ready for the festival... I've finally managed to relax a bit at the end of March, when I receiver mixes. Now our album is beeing released by Fundacja Słuchaj....

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..." It has all begun with music of Bessarabian Jews - BTW. Bessarabia is a historical region in Eastern Europe, it used to be between Dniestr and Prut rivers, where Moldova an Ukraine are now. Bessarabia is gone, and so is its music - I had to look for it in old scores and recordings. Found tunes were incorporated in modern compositions - it's jazz, mixed with contemporary improvised music. I started writing that suite in December 2015, finished in January 2016. Everything was recorded live - no editing, overdubs or studio magic of any kind was used - on March 3rd, in NInA (Warsaw, PL) and mixed by Michał Kupicz. We worked under big pressure, we wanted to have album ready for the festival... I've finally managed to relax a bit at the end of March, when I receiver mixes. Now our album is beeing released by Fundacja Słuchaj.

I so happy about this album, and I can't wait to play it live! Our premiere performance will take place in Polin Museum, Warsaw, PL, on April 14th."

Marcin Olak Quartet are:

Marcin Olak - guitars
Maciek Szczyciński - bass
Krzysztof Szmańda - drums
Patryk Zakrocki - viola

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