Album Pictures from the street
Year: 2004
Style: Accordeon, jazz, ethno
Country: Poland
Size: 61,5 MB
Tracklist:
1. Train to Heaven
2. Café Paris
3. Balkan Dance
4. Little Story
5. Tango
6. It's O.K.
7. Scotsman
8. Pageant
9. Asfalt Tango
10. Aide Jano
Album Play-station
Year: 2005
Style: Accordeon, jazz, ethno
Country: Poland
Size: 72,5 MB
Tracklist:
1. UFO
2. You Dance
3. Tranceaccordion
4. Helicopter
5. Chinatown
6. Tilt
7. Fly (To Janusz Pater)
8. Yellow Trabant
9. Carrousel
10. Stars
11. Game Over
12. You Dance [Techno Version]
Pictures from the street
“We are peasants somehow…we grew up in small towns,” writes Janusz Wojtarowicz in the liner notes of Pictures from the Street, the Motion Trio’s debut CD. Don’t be fooled. These three squeeze-box Bachs are all conservatory trained virtuosos who are going boldly where no accordionists have gone before. Playing custom-built, extended range Piginis—“the Rolls-Royce of accordions,” according to founder/leader/principal composer Wojtarowicz—this genre-bending group employs innovative writing and unorthodox techniques to achieve an effect that is utterly unique.
Drawing on Balkan folkdances, minimalist compositional approaches, movie soundtrack, rave, trance, house, tango, Celtic and jazz musics, Wojtarowicz (keyboard accordionist) and his cohorts Marcin Galazyn and Pawel Baranek (button accordionists) create monster dance tracks on their acoustic instruments. These throbbing, complexly layered beats unfold and evolve through intricate textures and subtle mood swings. The cultural heritage of Eastern Europe is evident in the preponderance of minor key melodies—including natural and harmonic minors, Phrygian and the poignant “Gypsy minor” with its flatted second and major third degrees—and several numbers are based on folk dances in 5/4 and 7/4 time signatures. “Aide Jano” is a soulful lament played over a low drone that might remind some listeners of Miles Davis’ “Saeta” from Sketches of Spain, while the opener, “Train to Heaven,” is a programmatic piece imitating a locomotive, only this one sounds more like The Who’s “Baba O’Riley” than Duke Ellington’s “Daybreak Express.” (www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=19452)
Personnel:
Janusz Wojtarowicz: keyboard accordion
Marcin Galazyn: button accordion
Pawel Baranek: button accordion
Play station
Play-Station builds on elements the trio introduced in its previous album but extends them in daring new ways. “Game Over,” for example, depicts an action-packed video station, complete with buzzers, bonus points, and “Call to Post” bugling; “You Dance” is included in two versions, the second a techno remix; and the twisting timbres of “Chinatown” evoke a New Year’s street parade. The musicians coax an amazing arsenal of sounds from their axes, including the pesky buzzing of “Fly,” the industrial mixing board effects on “Tilt,” the throbbing rave-beat soundscapes of “Tranceaccordion,” and the space-age Doppler shifts of “UFO.”
This is accordion playing like you’ve never heard: bring your thinking caps and dancing shoes.
Personnel:
Janusz Wojtarowicz: keyboard accordion
Marcin Galazyn: button accordion
Pawel Baranek: button accordion
Additional personnel:
Tomas Sanchez (accordion)
Arek Skolik (drums)
Another article available at http://www.cdroots.com/hm-motion2.html
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