{"id":55,"date":"2026-05-10T20:01:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T20:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/budynosmakumickiewicza.pl\/?page_id=55"},"modified":"2026-05-10T20:01:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T20:01:15","slug":"behind-the-scenes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/budynosmakumickiewicza.pl\/index.php\/behind-the-scenes\/","title":{"rendered":"Behind the scenes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Budy\u0144 o smaku Mickiewicza - making of | Nikola Ko\u0142odziejczyk Orchestra\" width=\"920\" height=\"518\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gMuoY9ZGgxk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Adam Mickiewicz Institute has commissioned my newest composition based on Adam Mickiewicz poetry \u2014 Budy\u0144 o smaku Mickiewicza.<br>This concert is the final one in this year\u2019s tour, we played in Serbia, now we are playing in Budapest, where we are recording the album.<br>The Budapest itself inspires the trip down the memory lane, just as we are time-travelling. The atmosphere of the city allows us to absorb this feeling.<br>\u201eDo you reckon this would be the baseline take? Which one would be better for you?\u201d \u201eI don\u2019t know, I suppose I sang best on the first take\u201d \u201eThat one was good, definitely\u201d<br>\u201eThis is very art of high degree of sophistication &#8211; what Nikola and musicians are performing.\u201d<br>\u201eI\u2019m learning every day listening to this music, but this is also another motivation to work on myself.\u201d<br>\u201eTechnically this music is the peak hardcore difficulty for vocalists and instrumentalists alike.\u201d<br>\u201eI need falsetto for this\u201d<br>\u201eWe just need to hear that\u201d<br>\u201eIt is great fun, privilege also, in confronting challenging but also beautiful song, so I am out of the proverbial comfort zone to make something completely new.\u201d<br>\u201eIt\u2019s a very eclectic material that could be very interesting for people interested in storytelling in music, and this story informs all of the music \u2014 the music is subjugated to the narrative.\u201d<br>\u201eI have invited Jacek Szymkiewicz Budy\u0144 to reinterpret the poetry. He had done it masterfully and in his own personal style.\u201d<br>\u201eJacek Budy\u0144 Szymkiewicz &#8211; sadly not with us anymore &#8211; used the broadest possible spectrum of colors to paint the emotions and stories, and it shows as being extremely captivating.\u201d<br>\u201eThose stories are crafted in a way as we would talk about people we know\u201d<br>\u201eJacek translated the Ballads into today\u2019s language, but it is still poetry \u2014 it is one of a kind way of expression, absolutely unique to him \u2014 his language.\u201d<br>\u201eIt is large ensemble instrumental jazz, with added songs on top of\u2026\u201d<br>\u201e\u2026so it is something between songwriting and instrumental concept album &#8211; joined into one.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nikola Ko\u0142odziejczyk Orchestra<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nikola Ko\u0142odziejczyk piano, conductor<br>Natalia Grosiak voc<br>Tomasz Organek voc<br>Maciej Starnawski voc, acoustic guitar<br>Agnieszka Kiepuszewska voc, piano<br>Jan Krzeszowiec flute, alto flute<br>Robert Wypasek soprano &amp; tenor saxophone<br>Tomasz \u017bym\u0142a bas clarinet<br>Adam J\u0119drysik el. guitar<br>Andrzej Kowalski el. guitar<br>Cyprian Baszy\u0144ski trumpet<br>Mateusz Feli\u0144ski french horn<br>Mateusz Mendyka bass trombone<br>Bartek Pieszka vibraphone<br>Maciej Szczyci\u0144ski double bass<br>Mi\u0142osz Berdzik drums<br>Micha\u0142 P\u0119kosz percussion, handpans<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mateusz So\u0142tysik soundegineer<br>Weronika Wendrowska<br>IAM representative<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Mickiewicz Institute has commissioned my newest composition based on Adam Mickiewicz poetry \u2014 Budy\u0144 o smaku Mickiewicza.This concert is<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/budynosmakumickiewicza.pl\/index.php\/behind-the-scenes\/\" class=\"readmore\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Behind the scenes<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-55","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/budynosmakumickiewicza.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/budynosmakumickiewicza.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/budynosmakumickiewicza.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/budynosmakumickiewicza.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/budynosmakumickiewicza.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/budynosmakumickiewicza.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56,"href":"https:\/\/budynosmakumickiewicza.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/55\/revisions\/56"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/budynosmakumickiewicza.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}