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Michał Bryndal, Joanna Duda, Max Mucha; photo - Maria Jarzyna
joanna duda trio
Joanna Duda Trio embodies a fusion of jazz, preparations, groove, ambient, minimalism, with hints of baroque, romanticism, and humor. Natural and synthetic sounds coalesce in a robust and surprising form. Joanna Duda opts for creating "music" rather than just showcasing "pianism," and the FUMITSUKE album represents a cohesive entity guided by sound as a collectively generated quality. Virtuosity serves as a crucial element, binding the polyphony of flavors together, while the electronics exhibit an organic and osmotic character. The band was established in late 2017. The subsequent year proved to be a significant one for Joanna Duda Trio. The current lineup, featuring Joanna Duda on piano and electronics, Maksymilian Mucha on double bass with effects, and Michał Bryndal on drums and electronics, was solidified at the close of 2018.
The inaugural album of Joanna Duda Trio, titled FUMITSUKE was released under the Echo Production label. The album premiered in November 2021 during the London Jazz Festival, and the FUMITSUKE tour gained momentum in 2022. By the conclusion of 2023, Joanna Duda Trio has already become recognized within the jazz scenes of the UK, Poland, France, Finland, Italy, the US, Canada, Germany, Slovenia, Hungary, and Austria. The band has graced prestigious venues such as London's Ronnie Scott’s, Lyon's Le Periscope, NY Dizzy’s Jazz Club, Vienna’s Porgy & Bess, Katowice’s NOSPR, and notable festivals including Berlin JazzFest, Alto Adige Sudtirol Festival, London Jazz Festival, Leipziger Jazztage, and Vancouver’s International Jazz Festival.
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Keen album cover; photo - Partycja Planik; design - Kasia Michalkiewicz - Hansen
keen
In 2019 Joanna Duda released her first solo album KEEN. The album contains electro-acoustic work; you can hear there piano sounds which are direct and prepared in long process; Joanna uses also synths, all types of sampling and weird beat divisions. She is planting and growing her sounds into multiplied layers consist of one organic, living texture.
She found an alternative idea for album that would be expected from her, mainly recognized as a pianist. Few years ago she started to perform solo with computer, constructing instruments out of samples she collected, together with analogue synths and other objects (as dictaphone for example), which led her into new interesting fields of constructing sounds. Another part of developing her sound language was the experience of performing live with the physical dance/butoh theatre. On album KEEN she included that substance together with brilliant classical and jazz piano skills, extracting the spirit of contemporary acoustic/electronic music as a main layer and intelligence dance music implicitly there.