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Motion Trio
Pictures from the Street (Asphalt Tango)
$17.99
Musicians:
Janusz Wojtarowicz - lead accordion
Marcin Galazyn - accordion
Pawel Baranek - accordion
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The record label says: Innovative Polish accordion trio founded in 1996, has worked hard to change the image of their instrument. Their sound collages range somewhere between minimalism, jazz and rock. They create soundscapes that totally redefine the musical and expressive range of the accordion and bring its sound firmly into a modern context. Everything is strictly acoustic - neither samplers nor additional effects are used. In 2000, Motion Trio won first prize at the fourth annual Krzysztof Penderecki International Competition of Contemporary Music in Krakow
The trio says:
More info from the record label:
"Other instruments like the violin, guitar and piano have already been exhausted in their own ways, and at this point not much new can really be done with them. It's entirely different with the accordion, which is only just now being gradually discovered and played experimentally. Accordion traditionalists have run out of ideas, and it is our goal to extract notes from the accordion which have never been heard before, to develop completely new sounds and forms, and transfer them onto CD as well as of course to present them live." Janusz Wojtarowicz
In 2000 Motion won 1st prize in the category 'Trio' and the 'Grand Prix' at the 4th Krzysztof Penderecki International Competition of Contemporary Music in Krakow. The same year the Polish Media voted them 'Best Debut Act of the year'. The CD "PICTURES" published in Poland in 2000 swept the critics of their feet: 'PICTURES' was awarded with the Grand Prix of the Polish music industry and voted CD of the Year 2000.
Despite their youthful age Motion Trio has worked with artists such as Bobby McFerrin, Tomasz Stanko and Michal Urbaniak.
Janusz Wojtarowicz, founder and leader of Motion Trio, began studying piano and accordion under his father Eugeniusz at the age of seven. After completing his studies at the National Music College Krakow, he went on to study accordion at the Music Academy Krakow. He has won numerous prizes at many chamber competitions in Poland and abroad, and also composes music for theatre.
At the age of seven Marcin Galazyn began studying the accordion under Professor Eugeniusz Ajdamach. After completing a 2nd degree at the National Music School Bialystok, he went on to study accordion at the Music Academy Krakow. He has won prizes at many all-Polish accordion competitions.
Pawel Baranek began studying accordion and organ under Professor Wieslaw Kusion at the age of nine, and later finished his studies at the National Music College Tarnow. He has won several accordion competitions in Germany, Italy and Poland. Currently he is studying at the Music Academy Krakow.
Motion Trio about Motion Trio:
"The simple idea of playing the accordion, acoustic playing without additional effects, that is us. We don't use samplers and electronics. Do we need samplers when we have wonderful instruments - 'acoustic samplers'? The accordion has these sounds inside itself. The accordion covers the range of a chamber orchestra! How many hands we have! How many possibilities of harmonic playing!"
"First and foremost we are people, then musicians, then accordionists. We take what life brings. At the moment we feel that everything that comes out of us is a matter of the Motion team. We choose our image, we choose our own sound and we write the music we play by ourselves. We strive to find acceptance for our way of thinking about music. There can't be another way, because Motion plays its own music - this is our first and only commandment."
"We draw inspiration from contemporary, classical and baroque music, from jazz, rock, metal, techno, house and disco polo. When we pick up the accordion and the sound flows we do not know where it's coming from."
"We got to know music in ways other than academic. We played for many years on the corner of Florianska Street and the market in Krakow. This is a very crowded place. Professors from the Music Academy passed by and dropped money in our hats. Many familiar faces looked at us sitting on the ground with our accordions on our knees - embarrassing. With such experience behind us nothing surprises us nowadays. First and foremost we are people, then musicians, then accordionists. We take what life brings. The simple idea of playing the accordion, acoustic playing without additional effects, that is us. We don't use samplers and electronics. Do we need samplers when we have wonderful instruments - 'acoustic samplers'? The accordion has these sounds inside itself. The accordion covers the range of a chamber orchestra! How many hands we have! How many possibilities of harmonic playing..."
This innovative Polish accordion trio founded in 1996 has managed to change the face of their instrument, the accordion, already. Six hands create timbres that really catch and even more surprise. Most of the music played by this 'Trio Infernal' so masterly is written by Janusz Wojtarowicz. The vanguard sound collages range somewhere between minimal music, jazz and rock and meet the Notion of Motion: to redefine the accordion and explore soundscapes far beyond what one associates and experienced with this instrument so far. The three energetic musicians do this on a strictly acoustic basis, neither samplers nor additional effects are part of their concept.
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