GAD stands for Great Audiovisual Discoveries. We rediscover the long-forgotten yet entrancing sounds of yore. We search through the dusty archives to bring you high-quality jazz, psychedelia, and rock.
NEWS (May 2012):
Jerzy Milian Fundraising Campaign!
One of our most recent findings is a unique set of recordings by Jerzy Milian, the legendary Polish jazz vibraphonist. During the 1970s this godfather of the groove recorded a huge number of great upbeat instrumentals, all of them worth being rediscovered. We believe you could help us fund this release. Be prepared for some superb music, autographs, and more! Join us on Indiegogo website.
RELEASES:
Jan Ptaszyn Wróblewski – „Sweet Beat”
Great easy listening! „This record is, above all, a showcase for Wróblewski’s arranging skill. As he, himself, admits, this kind of work suits him best. I can’t imagine life without strings and French horns, he says. An awareness of the fact that tgese instruments are a distinctive feature of „sweet music”, make us realize just how much this music means to Wróblewski the jazzman. He had wanted to make this record for a long time. However, the final concepction was born during the production of another album of „sweet music”: his friend Włodzimierz Nahorny’s „Her Portrait”, on wich Ptaszyn led the band, and to which he contributed some of his arrangements. „Sweet Beat” offers a similar music, although more aggressive rhythmically. ” (from liner notes by Jan Borkowski)
Klan – „Senne wędrówki”
Klan, one of Poland’s first truly genuine rock bands, became a legend almost instantly. They did not stoop to sing about love, however. Instead, they experimented with musical form, and were pioneers in using stroboscopic lights and artificial fog during gigs. The Warsaw-based group recorded their first SP in 1970. A year later the album “Mrowisko” surfaced, featuring music from the ballet show of the same title. Sadly, Klan were too subversive a group to be accepted by the authorities and thus be given opportunities for further development. By August 1971 the band was no longer. In February 1971 Klan were at the apex of their creative efforts. It was at that time that they recorded a dozen or so tracks intended as soundtrack to the Polish Film Chronicle, a newsreel shown in Polish cinemas. The band combined elements of jazz, rock, and the psychedelic with great ease. The recordings have survived in excellent quality. They have been transferred from original tapes and meticulously remastered by Andrzej Poniatowski, Klan’s original drummer and a superb sound engineer in his own right. The booklet comes replete with fantastic, hirtherto unpublished photos, and a lavish essay on the band’s history, explaining the behind-the-scenes of this truly unique session.
Jan Jarczyk / John Stetch – „Smoked Pianos”
Frenetic jazz for two pianos! „While planning a series of concerts for the year 2007 as a part of a celebration of my 60th birthday I asked John Stetch if he would like to play a two pianos concert and he enthusiastically responded to it. We agreed over the phone on the details how to approach it and rehearsed a bit when he got to Montreal, left a lot of things open… and during rehearsal we discovered – after 20 years of not playing in the same room – that our concept of understanding piano music – jazz and in general – is quite similar. John origins are of Ukraine form Edmonton (John Stechyshyn), mine polish from Krakow, meeting in Canada in Montreal..One could say – Long Live Slavic Soul! And that’s how in many respects this CD sounds like – while playing jazz.” (from liner notes by Jan Jarczyk)
Zbigniew Seifert Quartet – „Nora”
We are making up for the mistakes committed by the Polish music industry decades ago. The hitherto unpublished recordings of Zbigniew Seifert Quartet (1969-70) are finally released! The CD features a number of live recordings from the band’s festival appearances at Jazz nad Odrą (1969) and Jazz Jamboree (1969-70). The players rank among the cream of the crop in the world of Polish jazz: Janusz Stefański, Jan Jarczyk, Jan Gonciarczyk & Zbigniew Seifert.
All the tracks have been carefully remastered. The CD comes with a lavish booklet featuring a lengthy essay on the Quartet as well as some rare photographs of the band. Limited deluxe edition (111 hand-numbered copies) features a set of postcards and exclusive reprints of original scores.
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