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Grzegorz Karnas
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-Grand Prix - International Meeting of Jazz Vocalists Zamość 1998 -Grand Prix - Concours des Jeunes Chanteurs de Jazz de Bruxelles 2006 -Grand Prix - Concours des Chanteurs de Jazz Cest Jazz Vocal 2007
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Grzegorz Karnas conducts music workshops for people who would like to engage in music-making using the instrument which is the human voice. Since playing music with the voice is based not only on play, but also on becoming familiar with several seemingly self- evident aspects of it, the issues dealt with during these workshops include: breathing, articulation and transmission of one's voice based on its natural tone, in keeping with its primary function – conveying emotions. Among other things, group sessions consist of creating so- called “cyclic cantos”, the aim of which is to broaden rhythmic awareness by bringing one into contact with what are known as poly-rhythms. This is a way to quickly create a live improvisational choir based on a group of people who - once familiar with a given rhythmic element, onto which a successive rhythmic element that creates a simple counterpoint to the first is then superimposed – are able to create a percussive effect. Notes in simple arrangements of intervals are then superimposed onto this mixture of rhythms. The melodies change in the course of their being sung, and the choir follows the cues of a leader.
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Grzegorz Karnas: Audio Beads
by Angelo Leonardi
Il singolare talento del cantante Grzegorz Karnas incontra sempre più consensi in ambito internazionale, come dimostrano le positive accoglienze ottenute da questo disco, inciso dal vivo al Jazzforum Budapest Festival del 2011. Originario della Slesia, Karnas è attivo sulla scena musicale polacca da almeno un decennio e questo è il suo quinto album, inciso con un organico quanto mai anomalo che mette assieme uno strumento folk ungherese (il cimbalom), uno appartenente alla tradizione accademica (il violoncello) e ...
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Cezary L. Lerski
Vocalist Grzegorz Karnas's latest album, entitled Karnas, is a one-of-a-kind mixture of 'borrowed songs' and original compositions by this outstanding alternative performer, whose creativity draws from a broad range of musical genres which, by virtue of his tremendous expressiveness, unique lyrics and exquisite playing on the part of the band, are fused into a single, coherent, jazz-based whole. It's been more than fourteen years since Grzegorz Karnas led his own band. His project in concert is either a quartet or ...
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viewlondon.co.uk
Grzegorz Karnas: energy, sense of humor, sensitivity, audacity; polish singer Grzegorz Karnas has it all ! (...) A singer and group who will likely make promoters take notice.“
culturejazz.net France
"Karnas interprets standards with incredible inventiveness. He gleans each note from a melody, to subsequently bend and transform it, imbuing it with substance. It's been quite some time since such imagination has been seen in the jazz vocals genre."