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Malczewski
Malczewski jest wydawnictwem, na które czekało wielu fanów SBB. Poszukiwania materiału trwały kilka lat, a pojawiające się tu i ówdzie fragmenty oryginalnych sesji potwierdzały, że warto. W 2008 r. udało się dotrzeć do Jerzego Leszczyńskiego, pomysłodawcy spektaklu „Malczewski”, założyciela Teatru Wizji i Ruchu. Przekazał nam archiwalne taśmy, nad którymi mieliśmy dalej pracować. Współpracę przerwała jednak niespodziewana śmierć Leszczyńskiego w listopadzie 2008 r. Udało nam się z zachowanych nagrań zrekonstruować całość, odnaleźliśmy także taśmy-matki z występu SBB z Teatrem Wizji i Ruchu w belgijskim Knokke. To wszystko złożyło się na trzypłytowy album Malczewski, dedykowany pamięci Jerzego Leszczyńskiego.
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Józef Skrzek was born into a miner’s family in the town of Michalkowice in the Upper Silesia. He has played and sung since he was child as he was inspired by the spirit of the arts: playing music, making art, and dancing. He also enjoyed sports. Józef obtained a degree in the piano class from the famous Karlowicz School in Katowice. Next he started studying in the Music Academy located also in Katowice. His father’s death in 1970 was such a difficult event that Skrzek interrupted his education and went to the professional stage to support his family.
He made his debut as a bass player and pianist in one of the best Polish rock group BREAKOUT. In 1971 he set up his favourite band SBB, which started PROGRESSIVE ROCK in Polish music and maybe, in the world as a whole. Inviting the son of a Greek settler in Poland, Apostolis Antymos (guitar) and Jerzy Piotrowski (drum) who worked in cooperation with Józef Skrzek, a multi instrumentalist and a composer, they showed the world a new formula of universal music with both a Slavic romanticism and a rebellious dynamism of rock. In the first nine years (until 1980) they recorded a dozen albums and sold millions of them in many countries such as West and East Germany, Austria, Sweden, Denmark, Hungary, Holland, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, and Finland overthrowing all market conventions.
Today SBB is an important band with deep roots. They released two new CDs which were recorded with a new American drummer from Chicago – Paul Wertico (formerly PAT METHENY GROUP). Recently they worked on a new album in Poland and are making preparation for special events in 2005. The music will take them to Silesian Oratorio and multiple art presentations in the Silesian Planetarium. There will be another tour in Europe and special performance in St. Petersburg, in Russia which will be announced.
Józef Skrzek composes and appears in other different constellations. He has performed many times as a solo pianist and an organist. Since 1980, and especially after the martial law in Poland, he performed in many churches all over Poland and recorded his CD with piano and organ music. He has composed music for films and theatrical events, and also has designed spatial screenplays for acoustic and vivid presentations of his music in very interesting locations. Some of these special places include the mountains, lakeshores, lighthouses, castles, planetarium and mines. The blend of location and music excites the audience and reveals A Slavic romanticism powered by rock dynamism!
SPECIAL PERFORMANCES
THE MOUNTAINS
· Stecowka with ethnic music, the Carpathians 1997
THE MAZURY (Masuria Lakes Region)
· Music at sunrise on the lake, 1996-200
· Mazurian festival, 2000
· Festival of electronic music, Pisz 1996 – 2000
CHURCHES
· The pipe-sacristan organs with synthesizers presented in the Cathedrals in Gdansk-Oliwa – 1996, Gniezno - 1999 – 2000, Warsaw - 2000, Katowice - 1986 – 1990, “Vartislavia Cantans” Festival, Wroclaw - 1995 – 2000
· Music at Calvarias and other cult places as Piekary Slaskie
1983 – 2000, the Basilica of Our Lady in Czestochowa 1983 – 1985,
The St. Anna Mountain 2000, the Holy Cross Church in Warsaw
2000, Wuppertaler Orgel Tage Festival, Nuremberg, Munich
(Germany), Paris (France), Manchester (Great Britain)
OTHER PLACES
· Historic Mine in Tarnowskie Gory – 1995
· Ravine of Silver Mine in Repty - 1995
· Lighthouse in Kolobrzeg – midsummer night - 2000
· Castle in Bedzin – 2000
· The Silesian Planetarium 1983 – 2000 - the permanent studio in Silesia – many concerts for children and wide audiences.
“Epitaph of souls” – cosmic concert with invited guests artists – 1997
MUSIC FOR FILMS
· “Golem”, “The War of Worlds” together with Piotr Szulkin
· “Hands up!” together with Jerzy Skolimowski
· “Adolescence” together with Mieczyslaw Waskowski
· Music for documentary and televisions uses
· Jozef Skrzek in cooperation with Lech Majewski composed modern opera “The peace of deer”. This duo is making a film “Angelus” now
THEATRE MUSIC
· “Othello” 1981 – Polish TV award
· “Caligula” Dramatyczny Theatre – Warsaw 1982
· “Medea” Powszechny Theatre – Warsaw 1984
· „Terrorists” Dramatyczny Theatre – Czestochowa 1985
· „The Storm” The Silesian Theatre – Katowice 1989
· “Evening of the Three Kings” The Theatre of Zaglebie Sosnowiec
- Sosnowiec 1992
· “The Night in Opera” Polski Theatre – Bielsko-Biala 1995
VIDEO ART PRODUCTION
· Hamburg (Germany) – film music 1986 – 1989
PINK NOISE STUDIO
· Aachen (Germany) – CD records, mastering live, film music, Welcome Project Group
IN CORPORE
· Forest’s Lodge, Silesia – 1993 - 1998. Multi group: ballet – vocalists – an instrumental. The club that integrated the art and the Silesian artist (1982 – 1991). Jozef Skrzek was elected as a boss of the club and he has been supporting the progressive Silesian art, especially blues, rock and jazz
OTHERS ACHIEVMENTS
· The first place at Festival in Knokke (Belgium) “Follow My
Dream” – the first Eurovision Award
· Ballet with Adam Hanuszkiewicz and Ewa Wycichowska “Karlowicz – Interpretation “ in Lodz, Moscow; with a great success in Europe – 1987- 1990
Contact: jozef@skrzek.com
A Silesian Family-the source of love and faith.
A mother, the most tender creature for her children. A mother, her hands always full of domestic chores, always looking for harmony, purity and cosiness of her home. A mother and a wife, always faithful to her marriage vows, fighting like a tiger for the safety of generations.
A father, working without end, at home and at work. A husband, full of confidence in his wife. A father, giving it all for his family, full of faith and always ready to carry his cross. A father, a creative warrior, noble and responsible, loving deeply his family, with the heart thorn apart between his home and his job, a respectful Christian.
A respect to the traditions, to the ancestors, to the generations, a love towards the land, sincerity and confidence, all those are the basic features of Silesian Families, the true ones. Now, when everything is changing, the importance of consolidate the main family values is a priority. The Silesian Family is the realization of human values. You have to admit it when you see the poverty, unemployment, falsehood and deceit. When you see how humanity is lost for money’s sake. But at the end of the day, the power of faith and solid traditions win. Solid traditions-firmly rooted in the hearts of the Silesians for centuries.
We meet at Piekary Sanctuary, the heart of religious life of the Upper Silesia, we meet at our Holy Mother’s place to give testimony to our belonging to Poland. Despite the separation of many families by the German emigration, we maintain the force of generations to love humanity.
The love of music, dancing, Silesian jokes, folk orchestras…in every Silesian family somebody plays an instrument, sings…whole families play and sing, Silesian artists wander around the world-very often with their families.
Nowadays, Silesia creates a new family model. The husbands come from different regions and the wives arrive to our dirty but precious land from afar. The children travel all around the world but come back to the parents’ nests with joy. They meet in the cemeteries, where they search for signs of human dignity enchanted in stones. Those who lie there have fought for us to live, for us to be able to maintain with honour their names, their blood, our Silesian tongue. The Silesian tongue, for centuries smacked and smashed by invaders and enemies. Our Silesian land and our Silesian tongue saved by our hero soldiers, those known and those unknown, from Silesian families.
Our beautiful Silesian Family, let it stand in unity like the Holy Mother of God with her Son, like the Holy Mother of Justice and Solidarity with her Son.
Alina Karina Luiza Elżbieta Maria Józef
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