Janusz Muniak - Contemplation (2015)

Janusz Muniak released his last original album in 2002 (CD "Annie") and since then, fans of his work keep asking about another studio recording of his musical activity. The answer is the album "Contemplation".

The album presents a mature, joint project of outstanding musicians. Joachim Mencel playing with Janusz Muniak? piano romantic, one of the most versatile Polish pianists; Willem von Hombracht? an outstanding double bassist from Saint Louis, and Harry Tanschek, an extremely active and musically experienced drummer from Vienna. Although the album is marked with four names, there is no doubt that the central figure and the person who had the greatest influence on the selection of songs is Janusz Muniak? a legend of Polish jazz, a great musician, winner of the Golden Fryderyk Award for lifetime achievement (2015).

The album will include standards and one composition by Janusz Muniak. ?Contemplation? is the most classic jazz sound recorded in Poland in recent years. Is it the taste of music that slowly delivers its content? This is the beauty of ballads that tell their story through the musical creation of true, deepest emotions. It is the vitality and energy of jazz, built on the basis of the acoustic timbre of the instruments in a recording recorded with the greatest care and attention to the natural, analog sound. This is a treat for all jazz fans, including audiophiles. The entire recording was recorded and mixed by the late Wojtek Przybylski, a great sound engineer who created the sound of many iconic albums. In ?Contemplation? To obtain a classic jazz sound, he used studio recording techniques used in the 1960s.