ADELA KONOP - vocal
GRZEGORZ PLESZYNSKI - plastic tube trumpets, keyboard, samplers & lyrics

Tomasz Licak (sax) and Maciej Wróbel (dr) they made a guest appearance in song " Is Delirium a Plane " ( Intuition).

Album was recorded et Electric Eye Studio - Szubin 2018- 2020
Kuba Kapsa - sound engineering and mastering
Aleksandra Żelazna - translation of Pleszynski lyrics

ANTIDEPRESSIVE RECORDS 2021- Antidepressant Art Foundation

The album has been released thanks to the courtesy of Tadeusz Pająk- The Honorary Consul of Finland Republic in Toruń.

Realized thanks to the financial support of the City of Bydgoszcz.

FINLAND album
with a message of freedom and love ..... to lakes ..... forests ...... high mountains .... animals ..... joy of life ..... inspired by the symphonic poem "Finlandia" Jean Sibelius .....


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Adela Konop - singer, educator, graduate of jazz vocal studies at the Faculty of Jazz and Stage Music at the Academy of Music. Feliks Nowowiejski in Bydgoszcz, WINNER of the GRAND PRIX - LADIES JAZZ FESTIVAL, Gdynia ,2018

Grzegorz Pleszynski combines sounds with colors and visual forms. The author says that his flowing paint lasts in time like sound and often the images become a score for musical compositions ... and vice versa. Sounds are extracted from two trumpets, constructed of fuel hoses, a funnel and mouthpieces. In his game you can find the voices of wild animals. He is also inspired by the sounds of anchor vessels in the bays, night steelworks and busy intersections. He often uses images and video to create sound.
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Adela Konop - wokalistka, pedagog, absolwentka wokalistyki jazzowej na Wydziale Jazzu i Muzyki Estradowej AKADEMII MUZYCZNEJ im. Feliksa Nowowiejskiego w Bydgoszczy. Laureatka nagrody GRAND PRIX LADIES JAZZ FESTIVAL, GDYNIA 2018

Grzegorz Pleszynski - artysta zajmujący się łączeniem sztuki wizualnej z dżwiękiem......łączy dźwięki z kolorami i wizualnymi formami.... mówi, że jego spływająca farba trwa w czasie jak dźwięk i często obrazy stają się partyturą dla muzycznych kompozycji....i odwrotnie.
Dźwięki wydobywa z dwóch trąbek, skonstruowanych z węży paliwowych, lejka kuchennego i ustników. W jego grze doszukać się można głosów dzikich zwierząt. Inspirują go także odgłosy okrętów kotwiczących w zatokach, nocne stalownie oraz ruchliwe skrzyżowania. Posługuje się często obrazami i video aby tworzyć dźwięk.Laureatka LADIES JAZZ FESTIVAL, Gdynia, 2018- Adela Konop, śpiewa teksty Grzegorza Pleszynskiego, jednym z najpiekniejszych głosów na świecie....
Album FINLANDIA
z przesłaniem wolności i miłości.....do jezior.....lasów......wysokich gór....zwierząt..... radosci życia ..... inspirowany poematem symfonicznym "Finlandia" Jean Sibeliusa.....

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www.facebook.com/118621111623551/posts/adela-konop-grzegorz-pleszynski-finlandiathis-is-the-debut-album-by-the-polish-a/1888699967948981/Adela Konop / Grzegorz Pleszynski – “Finlandia”

Adam Baruch:
This is the debut album by the Polish Avant-Garde Jazz duo comprising of vocalist Adela Konop and multi-instrumentalist / composer / lyricist Grzegorz Pleszynski, a representative of the Bydgoszcz scene, which has been the most creative Avant-Garde environment on the Polish scene. Saxophonist Tomasz Licak and drummer Maciej Wrobel guest on the final track. The album presents eight original compositions / improvisations, not credited on the album’s artwork and assumed to be co-created.
The music is a completely unique amalgam of human voice and layers of electronic sound vistas with some additional sounds like plastic trumpet and keyboards. Shocking with its forwardness at first, the music soon becomes flowing and penetrating the listener’s consciousness, trans-like and overwhelming, but constantly changing and offering an intrinsic tension, which keeps the listener mesmerized. Pleszynski proves again to be a class by himself as far as crossing musical borders and completely shunning stereotypes.
The focus of the music is obviously concentrating on the vocal parts, and Konop stands up bravely to the challenge, as nothing could have prepared for what she is required to do here. She wonderfully utilizes the entire known and expands into the unknown scope of vocal vocabulary, which includes everything from straightforward melody to completely wild vocalese, multi-tracking vocal effects, and other wonders that don’t have a name for it yet. She is absolutely sensational from the first note she utters to the last second while the music is playing.
Pleszynski wisely steps back supporting the vocals with his instrumental work reduced mostly to creative background, showing a beautifully minimalist approach. His sensitivity and imagination are also brilliant and complete the vocal parts most amicably. The music created by the duo is a perfect example of the result being way more than just the sum of the ingredients.
I don’t precisely know why, but the music sounds deeply sacral to me, without any specific religious references. The sound resonance and echo used during the recording create an atmosphere of a great cave / huge cathedral space, and the trumpet often sounds like church organs. This is completely subjective of course, but it made a powerful impact on me while listening to the music.
Overall this is a phenomenal album, surely one of the most innovative and impressive vocal recording I happened to come across in many years. An absolute must hear to all followers of Jazz / Avant-Garde vocals and all lovers of beautiful weird music the world over. An eye (well, ear) opener like few others.
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