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Critique of Swing in Two Parts

by Pianohooligan

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Marcin Ochel
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  • Record/Vinyl

    - 180g black LP
    - reverse outer sleeve printing
    - black inner sleeve & insert

    Includes digital pre-order of Critique of Swing in Two Parts. The moment the album is released you’ll get unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    digital album releases April 25, 2024
    item ships out on or around May 3, 2024
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      €40 EUR or more 

     

  • Compact Disc (CD)

    - CD in 4 panel gatefold wallet
    - 8 panel fold out poster

    Includes digital pre-order of Critique of Swing in Two Parts. The moment the album is released you’ll get unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    shipping out on or around April 25, 2024
    Purchasable with gift card

      €15 EUR

     

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    Pre-order of Critique of Swing in Two Parts. The moment the album is released you’ll get unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card
    releases April 25, 2024

      €10 EUR  or more

     

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about

More than six years since the release of his piano trilogy for Decca Classics ("Experiment: Penderecki", "15 Studies for the Oberek", and "24 Preludes & Improvisations)", Piotr Orzechowski returns with an eminently enigmatic album. Though the two long tracks on Critique of Swing consistently continue the artist’s series of unique musical ‘manifestos’, they surprise the ear with an economy of form and their highly personal, intriguing sound.

Pianohooligan’s new, fourth solo album is a simultaneously warm-hearted and analytic take on swing, which as a musical phenomenon constitutes one of the pillars of the artist’s creative thought. Swing is both a foundation of jazz and an inherent element of ‘primitive’ cultures. Through the variational form of his diptych, Orzechowski asks questions concerning the role and the elusive nature of swing, challenging its earlier, common interpretations.

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releases April 25, 2024

Piotr Orzechowski - piano
Music by Piotr Orzechowski

The album has been coproduced with the National Centre for Culture Poland

Recorded in January 2021 on Yamaha CFX piano at the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra Concert Hall in Katowice

Sound engineer: Ewa Guziołek-Tubelewicz
Vinyl mastering: Paweł Ładniak

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Pianohooligan Warsaw, Poland

Piotr Orzechowski – Polish jazz pianist and composer, known as Pianohooligan

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