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released November 28.2025<\/p>\n
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Released by Fundacja Ensemblage \/ Chopin University Press<\/p>\n
Link to label (CD Album): http:\/\/ensemblage.pl\/index.php\/label\/<\/a><\/p>\n Songlines<\/em> is the latest album by Andrzej Kara\u0142ow \u2013 a composer, pianist, and artist who moves freely between contemporary music, electronics, and improvisation. The album is a story about pathways: both the literal ones, inspired by nature and landscape, and the hidden, internal, sonic ones that guide the listener through a series of abstract micro-worlds saturated with detail.<\/p>\n The title refers to Aboriginal \u201csonglines\u201d \u2013 maps concealed within songs, which can be \u201clistened to like a landscape.\u201d Kara\u0142ow uses this metaphor to connect seemingly distant compositions: from the sonoristic, almost waterfall-like quartet Some whispers of mists and water above, hidden in the rocks<\/em>, through the repetitive and precisely crafted Timelapse Studies<\/em>, to the exceptionally intimate Silent rain<\/em> for solo accordion. Each piece becomes a point of orientation \u2013 a kind of stop along a sonic map where the perspective, rhythm, and dynamics of the narrative shift.<\/p>\n At the heart of the album is a cycle of four songs set to the poetry of Peter Gizzi. His texts \u2013 spacious, rich in impressions and sensuality \u2013 open up space for Kara\u0142ow to engage in a subtle interplay between word and sound. Completing the whole is Interweaving<\/em> for wooden flute and an 1842 historical piano \u2013 a composition of interlacing lines inspired by the shapes of glacial rivers. This is music that moves like nature itself: at times in a broad current, at others in an intimate, chamber-like flow.<\/p>\n The album was recorded in 2025 at Polish Radio\u2019s Studio S4, Studio Izabelin, and at Andrzej W\u0142odarczyk\u2019s Piano Workshop. The recordings feature outstanding musicians: Olivia Bujnowicz, Oriana Masternak, Mateusz Stankiewicz, Aleksander Rewi\u0144ski, Ania Karpowicz, Marcel Markowski, Naruhiko Kawaguchi, and Agnieszka Pod\u0142ucka. Sound engineering was provided by Igor Szyma\u0144ski, Ma\u0142gorzata Szyma\u0144ska, and Micha\u0142 Bereza. The project is a collaboration between Chopin University Press and the Ensemblage Foundation, and was made possible with the support of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1677585825569{padding-top: 5% !important;padding-right: 5% !important;padding-bottom: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}”][vc_column][vc_separator style=”shadow”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1752317855976{margin-right: 5% !important;margin-left: 5% !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”1559″ img_size=”300×300″ alignment=”center” onclick=”custom_link” link=”https:\/\/andrzejkaralow.bandcamp.com\/album\/livresse-transfigur-e-2025″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n released November 21.2025<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n The album features three sonatas for viola and piano by Andrzej Czajkowski, Pawe\u0142 Szyma\u0144ski, and Andrzej Kara\u0142ow. They were recorded by the virtuoso duo of Agnieszka Pod\u0142ucka (viola) and Andrzej Kara\u0142ow (piano), whose collaboration is founded not only on shared music-making but also on artistic reflection, which has resulted in a new, dedicated composition. The works presented here\u2014woven together by a remarkably engaging performance history\u2014display a wide range of characters. One can therefore hear classical form alongside freedom from notational rigor, a dialogue with the past and the search for new inspirations, as well as vivid, painterly soundscapes shaped by the instruments.<\/p>\n \u201cClosure, and at the same time a beginning: this is Agnieszka Pod\u0142ucka\u2019s phonographic debut, heralding further stories and\u2014perhaps\u2014future journeys through the realm of contemporary sonatas. On her album, three important works, connected by threads of form, inspiration, and history, solidify into a sonic photograph. Phonography, in turn, gains a recording that\u2014regardless of the concert life of the three sonatas\u2014will, I have no doubt, inspire future music lovers, performers, and composers.\u201d (Mariusz Gradowski)<\/p>\n The recordings were made in 2023 and 2024 in Warsaw, in the concert hall of the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music.<\/p>\n Sound direction, editing, mastering: Katarzyna Rakowiecka-Rojsza, Aleksandra Koniuch \u2013 collaboration [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1677585825569{padding-top: 5% !important;padding-right: 5% !important;padding-bottom: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}”][vc_column][vc_separator style=”shadow”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1752317855976{margin-right: 5% !important;margin-left: 5% !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”1498″ img_size=”300×300″ alignment=”center” onclick=”custom_link” link=”https:\/\/andrzejkaralow.bandcamp.com\/album\/livresse-transfigur-e-2025″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n released May 29, 2025<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n This LP is published by Crossroads Centre.<\/p>\n It is available to purchase here: rozdroza.com\/en\/sklep\/<\/a><\/p>\n Listen here on Bandcamp<\/a><\/p>\n This duo, Andrzej Karalow and J\u00e9r\u00f4me Noetinger, is the brainchild of Grzegorz Paluch, who had the idea of bringing together the piano, the subtle phrasing and harmonic interplay of the former with the magnetic and electronic tentacles of the latter. The piano metamorphoses in the cogs of the tape recorder, multiplying and playing with its distorted mirror. It’s a journey through imaginary landscapes haunted by a ghostly presence.<\/p>\n J\u00e9r\u00f4me Noetinger \u2013 Revox B77, electronics<\/strong><\/p>\n Andrzej Kara\u0142ow \u2013 piano, Roland space echo<\/strong><\/p>\n Recorded at Andrzej Kara\u0142ow\u2019s home studio, May 2024.<\/p>\n Recording, mix, and mastering by Igor Szyma\u0144ski.<\/p><\/div>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1677585825569{padding-top: 5% !important;padding-right: 5% !important;padding-bottom: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}”][vc_column][vc_separator style=”shadow”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1752317865595{margin-right: 5% !important;margin-left: 5% !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”1508″ img_size=”300×300″ alignment=”center” onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” link=”https:\/\/ensemblage.pl\/index.php\/label\/”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n released March 21, 2025<\/p>\n by Ensemblage Foundation<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n Double bassist Jo\u00eblle L\u00e9andre and pianist Andrzej Kara\u0142ow and, two exceptional improvisers, introduce FLINT – an album born from raw, spontaneous expression. Like the flint it is named after, it ignites moments of warmth, intensity, and transformation. Their interplay, both subtle and explosive, allows sound to organically unfold in real time. FLINT is an open invitation to experience music at its most elemental.<\/p>\n The album was recorded in S4 Studio of Polish Radio in Warsaw, Poland.<\/p>\n Jo\u00eblle L\u00e9andre \u2013\u00a0double bass<\/strong><\/p>\n Andrzej Kara\u0142ow \u2013 piano<\/strong><\/p>\n Igor Szyma\u0144ski \u2013 recording,\u00a0editing, mix, master<\/p>\n Listen [Streaming]: https:\/\/distrokid.com\/hyperfollow\/jollelandreandrzejkaraow\/flint<\/a><\/p>\n Link to label (CD Album): http:\/\/ensemblage.pl\/index.php\/label\/<\/a><\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1677585825569{padding-top: 5% !important;padding-right: 5% !important;padding-bottom: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}”][vc_column][vc_separator style=”shadow”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1752317872881{margin-right: 5% !important;margin-left: 5% !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”1331″ img_size=”300×300″ alignment=”center” onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” link=”https:\/\/lnk.fuga.com\/magorzatawasiucionekpoteraandrzejkaraow_lifebeyond?fbclid=IwAR37fLkBLz7dzdH4yp5pmIevoqJYdWv9ciVGroLeAr5kkaw0p0pRwAPI3gI”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n released December 1, 2023<\/p>\n by DUX Recording Producers<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n Chamber recital with music by W. Lutos\u0142awski, G. Crumb, B. Bart\u00f3k, O. Messiaen<\/strong><\/p>\n Ma\u0142gorzata Wasiucionek-Potera \u2013 violin<\/strong><\/p>\n Andrzej Kara\u0142ow \u2013 piano<\/strong><\/p>\n The music we hear on this album, very consciously structured into a sensitive story (as evidenced by specific pieces and names), <\/span>is \u2018natural in its hunger\u2019: it is simply life. When thinking about the (re)creative process of performance, we often forget that the score is a secondary record of music<\/span>\u2014<\/span>it is not that music is its epilogue. Music was first, and Wasiucionek and Kara\u0142ow remind us of this fact. Their performance is organic, \u2018testing gravity\u2019, as far as the virtuosity, interpretation, tone colours, and energy are concerned. However, whenever we deal with a living organism, there is, like its colourful halo, a glowing rim<\/span>\u2014<\/span>the mystery of what is \u2018beyond\u2019. <\/span><\/p>\n Available on streaming services<\/a><\/div>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1677585825569{padding-top: 5% !important;padding-right: 5% !important;padding-bottom: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}”][vc_column][vc_separator style=”shadow”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1752317881444{margin-right: 5% !important;margin-left: 5% !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”1306″ img_size=”300×300″ alignment=”center” onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” link=”https:\/\/id.ffm.to\/chopin_university_press_andrzej_karalow”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n released November 2023<\/p>\n by Chopin University Press<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text]Monographic album with works for mixed ensembles<\/strong><\/p>\n Messages Quartet \/ proMODERN vocal sextet \/ Chromatophonic Trio \/ Agnieszka Pod\u0142ucka \/ Chopin University Chamber Orchestra \/ Rafa\u0142 Janiak<\/strong><\/p>\n Inspired by the phenomenon of landscapes, I try to discover my own musical language through penetrating and fathoming visual, multi-layered sceneries. By connecting music with synesthesia, I want to reach a unique connection of sound, its colour, and time. The best link-symbol to observe the paradox of variability and permanency of landscapes is journey. Earth, physical land, tectonic layers, colours \u2013 all of these elements connect with spiritual aspect of steadiness and unpredictability. Improvisation \u2013 which is also important for me in the context of musical creation \u2013\u00a0as musical element and technique, symbolizes in my music a wandering through internal sound landscapes, merging everything into a single, organic whole.<\/p>\n Landscape, space, colour, sound, light, shadow \u2013 these are the elements that inspire my imagination. The complexity of landscape \u2013 often understood symbolically or abstractly \u2013 triggers many factors related to the shaping of sound material and its colour and of the sound structure itself. The phenomenon of landscape and its dynamic variability inspires me with its unpredictability and diverse layers.<\/p>\n Listen on streamings\u00a0<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1677585825569{padding-top: 5% !important;padding-right: 5% !important;padding-bottom: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}”][vc_column][vc_separator style=”shadow”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1752317888474{margin-right: 5% !important;margin-left: 5% !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”1504″ img_size=”300×300″ alignment=”center” onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” link=”https:\/\/antennanongrata.bandcamp.com\/album\/tse-tr-jmiejska-scena-elektroakustyczna-double-acts-5-6?fbclid=IwY2xjawLSc-RleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETBvR0FtM0FiOU1SNjZaa0JnAR6ai7pUI-bgqgFySi0Wb-jYJQDcglSCYRn_wNgK7j40HvkgoxpbPsy1Q3EFjw_aem_l9VMjjxw5_EhkU1Nj_olNw”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n released June 2025<\/p>\n by Antenna Non Grata<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n TSE – Tr\u00f3jmiejska Scena Elektroakustyczna<\/p>\n Double Acts 5: Double Acts 6 Nagrano 17.01 i 21.02.2025 w Inaczej Ni\u017c w Raju *TSE Double Acts w Inaczej Ni\u017c w Raju to cykl spotka\u0144 muzycznych w formule improwizuj\u0105cych duet\u00f3w, z\u0142o\u017conych z artyst\u00f3w i artystek reprezentuj\u0105cych Tr\u00f3jmiejsk\u0105 Scen\u0119 Elektroakustyczn\u0105<\/p>\n * Tr\u00f3jmiejska Scena Elektroakustyczna (TSE) to grupa tw\u00f3rc\u00f3w i tw\u00f3rczy\u0144 Listen on Bandcamp<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1677585825569{padding-top: 5% !important;padding-right: 5% !important;padding-bottom: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}”][vc_column][vc_separator style=”shadow”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1752317888474{margin-right: 5% !important;margin-left: 5% !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”336″ img_size=”300×300″ alignment=”center” onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” link=”https:\/\/andrzejkaralow.bandcamp.com\/album\/stone-music”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n released April 7, 2023<\/p>\n by Fundacja Bocian<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n Andrzej Kara\u0142ow \u2013 STONE MUSIC<\/p>\n It’s my first piano solo album dedicated to contemporary music. All of the four works are shaping a meditative atmosphere, each in its own way. “Stone Music” by Zygmunt Krauze and “Zerstreutes Hinausschauen” by Tomasz Sikorski were the underlying inspirations for works from the vinyl’s other side: “Stratum” by \u017baneta Rydzewska and “There are forgotten bells above the crawling cloud” written me. Two sides of this LP album, set up like a mirror, use the sound of the piano in conventional as well as sonoristic, extended way. From reverberating sound structures, long e-bowed notes to dynamic and repetitive music as well as buzzing and lingering soundscapes created by rocking stones on piano’s strings.<\/p>\n Listen on Bandcamp \/ buy vinyl album<\/a><\/p>\n Listen on streamings<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1677585825569{padding-top: 5% !important;padding-right: 5% !important;padding-bottom: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}”][vc_column][vc_separator style=”shadow”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1752317888474{margin-right: 5% !important;margin-left: 5% !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”340″ img_size=”300×300″ alignment=”center” onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” link=”https:\/\/www.efryderyk.pl\/muzyka-wspolczesna\/447-andrzej-karalow-5906874951200.html”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n released June 2020<\/p>\n by Chopin University Press<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text]Andrzej Kara\u0142ow’s De invitatione mortis, set to Maciej Papierski’s poetic triptych, is a mystery play attempting to tame inexplicable phenomena such as death, transience, and fate. Kara\u0142ow’s meta-opera aims to demonstrate a different approach to the opera genre by combining various stylistic and technical influences from the borders of classical, improvised, and electronic music. Sound and lyrics create a new world based on synesthetic and abstract references. It is a type of a static opera, without stage action. The libretto and its “play of light” and symbols correlate with the sound color (gradually illuminated).<\/p>\n The work’s form is based on three acts, each containing three poem-images presented by three protagonists: the terminally ill, the Doctor, and Death (Euthanatos). The formal arrangement draws on the traditions of ancient theater: tripartite structure, the unity of time and place, and the influence of fate. Three singer-actors are contrasted with an instrumental octet and a chamber male vocal ensemble.<\/p>\n The individual parts of the Sick Woman, Euthanatos, and the Physician can be interpreted ambiguously: on the one hand, as a personal manifesto of a lonely person, their cry and desire to free themselves from inevitable fate, and on the other, as an attempt to rationally grasp the ultimate.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1677585825569{padding-top: 5% !important;padding-right: 5% !important;padding-bottom: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}”][vc_column][vc_separator style=”shadow”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1752317888474{margin-right: 5% !important;margin-left: 5% !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”335″ img_size=”300×300″ alignment=”center” onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” link=”https:\/\/www.efryderyk.pl\/muzyka-wspolczesna\/548-chromatophonic-roksana-kwasnikowska-agata-dobrzanska-andrzej-karalow-5906874951613.html”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n released November 2022<\/p>\n by Chopin University Press<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text]Light, shadow, color, sound \u2013 these elements comprise the core repertoire of the Chromatophonic Trio, an ensemble formed in 2020 and the only piano trio in Poland performing contemporary music. Another key goal of the Chromatophonic Trio is to promote and develop the latest piano trio repertoire within conceptually coherent concert and publishing projects. The band members\u2014Roksana Kwa\u015bnikowska (violin), Agata Dobrza\u0144ska (cello), and Andrzej Kara\u0142ow (piano)\u2014are renowned musicians professionally associated with both the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music and renowned orchestras such as the Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra.<\/p>\n “Drawn from the dictionary of visual arts, the pairs of oppositions: light and shadow, sharp and soft, warm and cold, are just some of the determinants that form the interpretive framework of this album. Its main motif is color” (Wioleta \u017bochowska). The album’s repertoire includes: Toshio Hosokawa’s Trio, dedicated to the band Beyond the Haze of Winter’s Edge by Welsh composer Ashley John Long; Florescence by the band’s founder and pianist Andrzej Kara\u0142ow; and the exuberant Trio II (Triptych) “The Mirror With Three Faces” by Lera Auerbach. The material was recorded at the Witold Lutos\u0142awski Concert Studio of Polish Radio. in Warsaw by Micha\u0142 Bereza, Katarzyna Rakowiecka-Rojsza, and Ewa Guzio\u0142ek-Tubelewicz.<\/p>\n The album Chromatophonic proves “that the classical piano trio is still an inspiring ensemble and there is still much to discover within it, especially in the field of sound color” (Wioleta \u017bochowska).<\/p>\n
Programme note: Mariusz Gradowski
Language editing: Jakub Jakubaszek
Text translation: \u017baneta Pniewska
Photography: Barbara Liro, Andrzej Kara\u0142ow
Graphic design and layout: Marta Dawidiuk
Publishing editor, executive producers: Ilona Jaworska, Emilia Dudkiewicz<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\nAndrzej Kara\u0142ow | Katarzyna Karpowicz<\/p>\n
\nMateusz Klimek | Dariusz Mazurowski<\/p>\n
\nMiks\/mastering: A. Puczy\u0144ski (DA 5), D. Mazurowski (DA 6 )
\nLogo TSE i typografia: Katarzyna Podpora<\/p>\n
\nzajmuj\u0105cych si\u0119 szeroko rozumian\u0105 muzyk\u0105 elektroakustyczn\u0105 i pokrewnymi dziedzinami, jak field recording czy instalacja d\u017awi\u0119kowa, rezyduj\u0105cych w Tr\u00f3jmie\u015bcie i okolicach.<\/p>\n