Tales Of The Forest

Artist : Anka Koziel

Release Date : March 24, 2009
Label : OAP Records
Format : CD

Recorded and produced by Barry Olthof at The Fieldwork Studio, Schoten, Belgium on 2009.

Mixed and mastered at O.A.P. Studio, The Hague, The Netherlands.

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What is possible in jazz can be heard in Tales Of The Forest, Anka Koziel’s debut album. The young Polish singer goes back to the songs she grew up with. Her jazz versions of two songs of compatriot Chopin with texts by the poet S.Witwicki, three Polish folksongs, her own ‘Spring Night’ inspired by Fauré’s ‘Clair de lune’ and her ‘Forest tale’, with its instrumental suggestion of mysterious sounds of woods, fit together wonderfully.

Romantic with pep; as well wild and high-spirited as dreamily enjoying the poetry: The force of spring, a very earthy ‘Red berry blues’ (Czerwone jagody) up to the funnily jumpy ‘Goldfish’ (Zlota rybka). ‘The face I love’, the only standard (M.Valle and R.Gilbert) fits like a glove with its first line ‘Just think of things like daffodils and peaceful sheep on clovered hills’. Koziels well-wrought arrangements guarantee the harmonious marriage of all these elements. Her international trio (Brice Soniano, bass, Oriol Roca, drums, Michal Vanoucek, piano) gets ample room for perfect counteraction with a beautiful role for the Slovak pianist.

• Anka Koziel: vocals, elctronics
• Michal Vanouceck: piano
• Brice Soniano: double bass
• Oriol Roca: drums

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