The concert dedicated to Niemen will be filled with songs written over the years and featured on albums such as: „Terra Deflorata” or „Spodchmurykapelusza”. It is also probably the first attempt to translate these outstanding compositions and arrangements into the language of the ensemble of instrumentalists that Natalia has formed. From the 1980s onwards, Czesław Niemen was a self-sufficient multi-instrumentalist, and he employed, as he called it, a robotestra – an advanced digital-analogue „machinery” of instruments to create and perform his music. The concert will also feature some of Czesław Niemen’s greatest „hits”: „Jednego serca”, „Dziwny jest ten świat” or „Płonąca stodoła”. Natalia Niemen invited Krzysztof Zalewski and Wojciech Waglewski to perform during Soundedit.
Before the concert, Piotr Metz will host a talk on Niemen’s life and works. Natalia, Krzysztof and Wojciech will be joined by Małgorzata Niemen. Czesław Niemen will also be (posthumously) honoured with the Soundedit Festival’s „Man with a Golden Ear” award in recognition of his „visionary and pioneering solutions in music production”. This year’s festival will also be accompanied by an exhibition of photographs by Małgorzata Niemen: „Czesław Niemen in the lens of his wife”, which will be on display at the Gallery of the Łódź Photographic Society (ul. Piotrkowska 102).
In 2022, Matylda Damięcka and Radek Łukasiewicz tackled the theme of transience, death and mourning on the Polskie Znaki’s album. Matylda lent her visual (music videos) and vocal skills. Radek is known for his bands Pustki or Bisz/Radex, but also for writing for others including: Brodka, Artur Rojek, Piotr Zioła. Now they continue to work together, have an album ready and will perform at Soundedit. „Together we reflect on how women and men live in a modern world full of expectations and social pressures. Ordinary life, extraordinary form,” they say of their collaboration.
The project „Niemen – known and less known” and the duo Matylda/Łukasiewicz will perform on the stage of Klub Wytwórnia (Łódź, ul. Łąkowa 29) on 25 October (Friday) during the 16th edition of the Soundedit International Festival of Music Producers and Sound Designers. Tickets are PLN 149 and are available at: tickets24.pl, going.com, ticketmaster.pl, empikbilety.pl, wytwornia.pl and at the club’s box office.
Photos: organiser’s press materials