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Pictures From The Street

by Motion Trio

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1.
Train to heaven 04:27
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2.
Café Paris 03:27
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3.
Balkan dance 04:32
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4.
Little story 04:22
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Tango 02:21
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It's O.K. 04:13
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Scotsman 04:08
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Pageant 03:36
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Asfalt Tango 04:21
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10.
Aide Jano 08:00
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Motion Trio about Motion Trio:
"We got to know music in ways other than academic. We played for many years on the corner of Florianska Street and the market in Krakow. This is a very crowded place. Professors from the Music Academy passed by and dropped money in our hats. Many familiar faces looked at us sitting on the ground with our accordions on our knees - embarrassing. With such experience behind us nothing surprises us nowadays. First and foremost we are people, then musicians, then accordionists. We take what life brings. The simple idea of playing the accordion, acoustic playing without additional effects, that is us. We don't use samplers and electronics. Do we need samplers when we have wonderful instruments - 'acoustic samplers'? The accordion has these sounds inside itself. The accordion covers the range of a chamber orchestra! How many hands we have! How many possibilities of harmonic playing..."

"Motion Trio". This innovative Polish accordion trio founded in 1996 has managed to change the face of their instrument, the accordion, already. Six hands create timbres that really catch and even more surprise. Most of the music played by this 'Trio Infernal' so masterly is written by Janusz Wojtarowicz. The vanguard sound collages range somewhere between minimal music, jazz and rock and meet the Notion of Motion: to redefine the accordion and explore soundscapes far beyond what one associates and experienced with this instrument so far. The three energetic musicians do this on a strictly acoustic basis, neither samplers nor additional effects are part of their concept.

Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik"Other instruments like the violin, guitar and piano have already been exhausted in their own ways, and at this point not much new can really be done with them. It's entirely different with the accordion, which is only just now being gradually discovered and played experimentally. Accordion traditionalists have run out of ideas, and it is our goal to extract notes from the accordion which have never been heard before, to develop completely new sounds and forms, and transfer them onto CD as well as of course to present them live." Janusz Wojtarowicz

In 2000 Motion won 1st prize in the category 'Trio' and the 'Grand Prix' at the 4th Krzysztof Penderecki International Competition of Contemporary Music in Krakow. The same year the Polish Media voted them 'Best Debut Act of the year'. The CD "PICTURES" published in Poland in 2000 swept the critics of their feet: 'PICTURES' was awarded with the Grand Prix of the Polish music industry and voted CD of the Year 2000.

Despite their youthful age Motion Trio has worked with artists such as Bobby McFerrin, Tomasz Stanko and Michal Urbaniak.

The Musicians:

Janusz Wojtarowicz (b. 1971)
Janusz Wojtarowicz, founder and leader of Motion Trio, began studying piano and accordion under his father Eugeniusz at the age of seven. After completing his studies at the National Music College Krakow, he went on to study accordion at the Music Academy Krakow. He has won numerous prizes at many chamber competitions in Poland and abroad, and also composes music for theatre.

Marcin Galazyn (b. 1975)
At the age of seven Marcin Galazyn began studying the accordion under Professor Eugeniusz Ajdamach. After completing a 2nd degree at the National Music School Bialystok, he went on to study accordion at the Music Academy Krakow. He has won prizes at many all-Polish accordion competitions.

Pawel Baranek (b. 1978)
Pawel Baranek began studying accordion and organ under Professor Wieslaw Kusion at the age of nine, and later finished his studies at the National Music College Tarnow. He has won several accordion competitions in Germany, Italy and Poland. Currently he is studying at the Music Academy Krakow.

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released October 25, 2004

Musicians

Janusz Wojtarowicz - lead accordion, Pawel Baranek - accordion, Marcin Galazyn - accordion

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