Catalogue number: UKM 090
Release date: 14.01.2021
digital only
Info:
„I Do” Official Video: youtu.be/Q9K6Ma6I6mU
ŻYŃY, or Tomasz Woźniak is an extremely versatile artist. A graduate of the Jazz Department at the Academy of Music in Poznań (Poland) who also studied at Saint Louis College of Music in Rome. His crazy nickname comes from ZooYork NewYork cap he wears, and related anecdote. ŻYŃY is a multi-instrumentalist specialized in playing guitar and bass, a great turntablist, but most of all a producer, as proved by his latest album. He is inspired by many music genres, but consistently, for years, David Bowie has landed in his streaming top 5.
„Falling in Blue” album is not a debut, but the first album released under a professional music label. ŻYŃY played on most of the instruments (percussion played on MPC, guitar parts, bass, Hammonds, organ, synthesizers, and scratch), brass parts were played by Tomasz’s friends from the Academy of Music – Kacper Grzanka and Patryk Rynkiewicz trumpet, Kacper Krupa saxophone. The vocal is used in a quite unusual way, sampled, and treated as an equal instrument. „The vocal samples in most of the songs are short phrases, which I then modulated and on which the whole piece is usually based, therefore it is often one sentence or a few words, I like this procedure very much because a few words can give a lot of meaning”, Tomasz says.
The new ŻYŃY’s album, which also opens the second decade of U Know Me Records, is to be the beginning of a new chapter in the artist’s career. He constantly produces new material and tells very modestly, but boldly about his plans for the future.