Phœnix Natalia Kiës

• 1 Crystalline 03:10
• 2 Moja Własna Cisza 03:57
• 3 I Am Gone 03:35
• 4 Fall Asleep 04:04
• 5 Piksel I Pigment 03:45
• 6 Traces 04:06
• 7 Edda 04:15
• 8 Świetlik 03:17
• 9 Kropelka 03:43
• 10 Snowtrain 03:07
• 11 Mówić Przez Sen 03:41
• Total Runtime 40:40

Info for Phœnix

In many ways, Phoenix defies description. How to put something brilliant into words! Just reading the lyrics (or the translations from English and Polish) reveals a poetic soul brought to life. And if jazz is understood as a musical language, Phoenix offers new nuances to traditional notions of how that language should be spoken. In fact, everything in this album reflects Natalia Kië's personal life path.... not straightforward, but intricate, labyrinthine... with detours and stops in a wide variety of musical lands. Her unique flair for experimental jazz-pop songwriting is combined with the stylistic means of "musique concrète" and the musical exploration of her roots - a wandering along the paths, traces and consequences of origin. Thus her Polish side shines in a new brilliance, because the partly "foreign" lyrics speak a truly universal language in her compositions and reveal an unmistakable spectacle of sound, a sound-induced being somewhere else. Featuring percussionist and Grammy Award winner Keita Ogawa (New York), Moto Fukushima (New York) on bass, and Manuel Schlindwein (Cologne) as producer and audio engineer, Phoenix 11 compositions both distinctive and timeless culminate in a profound and breathtaking album full of musical and emotional twists and turns.

With Phoenix, Natalia Kiës has recognized herself. She is there. It's straight ahead. Very slow is the only way to go in this world. Who would have thought it?! In Snowtrain she travels from behind her into the future of experimental pop jazz. At the same time, the dream paths in Mówić przez sen are a useful orientation aid for navigating through the earthly tangle. At least until I Am Gone takes your breath away and incidentally reminds you that not all roads lead to Rome. Together with Kropelka, she strolls through the life of a dancing raindrop. Ever since she can remember, Edda's struggle with herself has been seeping out of every pore. But how much struggle is enough when you still want to look tenderly into each other's eyes? The great love rush between Piksel i Pigment remains absent, but the music delicately caresses our ears. In search of her own silence, Kiës finds a soul mate in Świetlik and a wacky sound spectacle in Moja własna cisza - amazing, this sound-induced elsewhere. With Traces she gets caught in the World-Wide-Web and calls out to it: Who is actually the parasite in our relationship here? She sings about the transparent citizen and says goodbye to all privacy with Crystalline: Have we lost our way again? How beautiful, that all belongs to straight ahead.

Natalia Kiës, piano, vocals
Keita Ogawa, percussion
Moto Fukushima, bass (tracks 1, 5, 6, 7)

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