"Man Behind The Sun" Drake jazz-Graznya Auguscik
Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2013 4:54 am
Nick Drake covered by Polish jazz great, Graznya Auguscik. Check out his Nick Drake with a jazz twist!
Really... damn good!
Things Behind The Sun...pretty amazing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35LMN0Mx42U
"Man Behind The Sun" Nick Drake-Graznya Auguscik
Grazyna’s ideas for Nick Drake’s compositions are extraordinary. The fact that there have been very few attempts to take on his works over last forty years is a testimony to how complex the material is. Highly intimate on both the musical and lyrical level, his songs are also very much bound to a specific time and place and as such, despite exploring universally understood, timeless concepts, might be difficult to interpret by a different performer. Musically, they pose a challenge as well, the songs cannot be simply sung without being dissected, understood and reinterpreted so that they respond to who is singing them, even if that means altering the original emotion.
Nick Drake is considered by many to be the saddest poet of contemporary music. However, to be able to penetrate the listeners’ souls and move their hearts you have to resort to powerful means of expression. Nick Drake mastered this skill forty years ago and now Grazyna Auguscik is excelling at it. So much so that I keep wondering if the songs on Man Behind The Sun aren’t better than the original. What’s certain is that they are equally personal and overflowing with contagious emotions. The album delivers a true musical feat, which is a rare achievement in this ever-changing reality. Man Behind The Sun is highly-addictive so consider yourselves warned…
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Grazyna Auguscik (born 17 August 1955) is a Polish jazz vocalist, composer and arranger.[1][2] In her individualistic and international in character singing repertoire she frequently utilizes Polish folk music,[1] Latin American music and Klezmer music.
Studied guitar in her native S#322;upsk, Poland. Later studied vocal, graduating in 1992 from Berklee College of Music in Boston.[1]
Her singing debut took place in 1977 at a festival in Toru#324;. At the National Festival of Polish Song in Opole in 1979 she won in the category of first-time contestants. W 1981 won prizes at the Student Festival of Song in Kraków and at the Festival of Traditional Jazz "Z#322;ota Tarka" in Warsaw.
In 1988 moved to the United States, where she has performed with Micha#322; Urbaniak and Urszula Dudziak, and many other leading jazz musicians, including Jim Hall, Michael Brecker, Randy Brecker, John Medeski, Patricia Barber, Paul Wertico, Bobby Enriquez, Terry Callier, John McLean, Kurt Rosenwinkel and Robert Irving III.[1] Augu#347;cik lives and frequently performs in Chicago since 1994.[1] She has participated in the programs of the Jazz Institute of Chicago, bringing "traditional Eastern European music into the jazz idiom, providing a new link to the universality of the language of jazz".[3] In 2002, 2003, 2004 i 2006 r. she was declared Best Jazz Vocal by the European Jazz Forum Magazine.[2] Augu#347;cik has toured all over the world. Some of her albums have been highly acclaimed and popular with jazz audiences, and have consistently placed in Top 10 Charts (e.g. by the College Music Journal).[2]
Has recorded 15 albums, including two with Urszula Dudziak, her fellow top-ranking Polish female jazz vocalist.
Samples
River Man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRbRqYOsCUo
http://www.7digital.com/artist/grazyna- ... nick-drake
Really... damn good!
Things Behind The Sun...pretty amazing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35LMN0Mx42U
"Man Behind The Sun" Nick Drake-Graznya Auguscik
Grazyna’s ideas for Nick Drake’s compositions are extraordinary. The fact that there have been very few attempts to take on his works over last forty years is a testimony to how complex the material is. Highly intimate on both the musical and lyrical level, his songs are also very much bound to a specific time and place and as such, despite exploring universally understood, timeless concepts, might be difficult to interpret by a different performer. Musically, they pose a challenge as well, the songs cannot be simply sung without being dissected, understood and reinterpreted so that they respond to who is singing them, even if that means altering the original emotion.
Nick Drake is considered by many to be the saddest poet of contemporary music. However, to be able to penetrate the listeners’ souls and move their hearts you have to resort to powerful means of expression. Nick Drake mastered this skill forty years ago and now Grazyna Auguscik is excelling at it. So much so that I keep wondering if the songs on Man Behind The Sun aren’t better than the original. What’s certain is that they are equally personal and overflowing with contagious emotions. The album delivers a true musical feat, which is a rare achievement in this ever-changing reality. Man Behind The Sun is highly-addictive so consider yourselves warned…
-polish-jazz blogspot
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Grazyna Auguscik (born 17 August 1955) is a Polish jazz vocalist, composer and arranger.[1][2] In her individualistic and international in character singing repertoire she frequently utilizes Polish folk music,[1] Latin American music and Klezmer music.
Studied guitar in her native S#322;upsk, Poland. Later studied vocal, graduating in 1992 from Berklee College of Music in Boston.[1]
Her singing debut took place in 1977 at a festival in Toru#324;. At the National Festival of Polish Song in Opole in 1979 she won in the category of first-time contestants. W 1981 won prizes at the Student Festival of Song in Kraków and at the Festival of Traditional Jazz "Z#322;ota Tarka" in Warsaw.
In 1988 moved to the United States, where she has performed with Micha#322; Urbaniak and Urszula Dudziak, and many other leading jazz musicians, including Jim Hall, Michael Brecker, Randy Brecker, John Medeski, Patricia Barber, Paul Wertico, Bobby Enriquez, Terry Callier, John McLean, Kurt Rosenwinkel and Robert Irving III.[1] Augu#347;cik lives and frequently performs in Chicago since 1994.[1] She has participated in the programs of the Jazz Institute of Chicago, bringing "traditional Eastern European music into the jazz idiom, providing a new link to the universality of the language of jazz".[3] In 2002, 2003, 2004 i 2006 r. she was declared Best Jazz Vocal by the European Jazz Forum Magazine.[2] Augu#347;cik has toured all over the world. Some of her albums have been highly acclaimed and popular with jazz audiences, and have consistently placed in Top 10 Charts (e.g. by the College Music Journal).[2]
Has recorded 15 albums, including two with Urszula Dudziak, her fellow top-ranking Polish female jazz vocalist.
Samples
River Man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRbRqYOsCUo
http://www.7digital.com/artist/grazyna- ... nick-drake
