Alice Zawadzki
“She is a genuine original” – John Fordham, The Guardian
Singer, violinist, and composer Alice Zawadzki was born in 1985 to an English linguist mother, and Polish historian father, and is one of six children. “Loosely connected to the world of jazz, but realistically inhabiting her own realm” (Clash Magazine), her creative output is an intricate tapestry of influences and exploration, finding home in the peripheries of the contemporary classical, jazz, art-pop, and folk worlds – “all propelled with a voice of velvet suppleness and gutsy emotional intensity” (The Arts Desk).
Za Górami (2024) is Alice’s debut album for ECM, together with long-term collaborators Fred Thomas (piano, drums, vielle) and Misha Mullov Abbado (double bass). Reviewing their live show in 2023, London Jazz News called the trio “a ‘supergroup’ trio of mesmerising intensity" – and [...]
“She is a genuine original” – John Fordham, The Guardian
Singer, violinist, and composer Alice Zawadzki was born in 1985 to an English linguist mother, and Polish historian father, and is one of six children. “Loosely connected to the world of jazz, but realistically inhabiting her own realm” (Clash Magazine), her creative output is an intricate tapestry of influences and exploration, finding home in the peripheries of the contemporary classical, jazz, art-pop, and folk worlds – “all propelled with a voice of velvet suppleness and gutsy emotional intensity” (The Arts Desk).
Za Górami (2024) is Alice’s debut album for ECM, together with long-term collaborators Fred Thomas (piano, drums, vielle) and Misha Mullov Abbado (double bass). Reviewing their live show in 2023, London Jazz News called the trio “a ‘supergroup’ trio of mesmerising intensity" – and on their debut recording, they present a rare alchemy, fusing folk idioms from a multitude of sources with free-flowing interplay and fluid structures. Recorded at Lugano’s Radio Stelio Molo and produced by Manfred Eicher, Za Górami encompasses folk song, chamber music, improvisation and jazz, combining the full span of the trio’s reach in a mesmerizing whole.
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