Phœnix
Natalia Kiës
Tracklist
- Crystalline (3:13)
- Moja własna cisza (3:56)
- I am gone (3:34)
- Fall asleep (4:03)
- Piksel i Pigment (3:44)
- Traces (4:05)
- Edda (4:14)
- Świetlik (3:16)
- Kropelka (3:42)
- Snowtrain (3:06)
- Mówić przez sen (3:40)
produced by
Natalia Kiës
Executive producer
Philipp van Endert & André Nendza
Musicians
Natalia Kiës – vocals
Keita Ogawa – percussion
Moto Fukushima – bass
About the album
In many ways, Phœnix defies description since there’s no true way to define brilliance. Just reading the lyrics (some in translation) reveals a poetic soul come to life. And if jazz is a musical language, this brings new levels of nuance to any pre-conceived notions of how to speak that language. Indeed, everything in this album reflects Natalia Kiës’ personal path of life…not straight-lined, but intertwined with detours and stops in various musical countries. Her unique flavor of experimental jazzpop-songwriting is in concert with techniques such as »musique concrète« and the musical exploration of her roots – touching upon traces, paths and consequences of origin. Henceforward she brings Polish to a new polish as the »foreign« lyrics to some of her songs speak a true universal language revealing a whole new world of distinctive soundscapes. With Percussionist and Grammy Award-Winner Keita Ogawa (New York), Moto Fukushima (New York) on bass and Manuel Schlindwein (Cologne) as Producer and Audio Engineer, Kiës presents 11 unique and timeless compositions which culminate in Phœnix, a breathtaking album full of depth and both musical and emotional twists and turns.