{"product_id":"kinga-glyk_real-life_2024_war_1","title":"Real Life","description":"Kinga Glyk returns with 'Real Life' on January 26, 2024!The bassist-composer unveils her new album produced by Kinga Glyk and co-produced by Michael League (Snarky Puppy, David Crosby), five-time Grammy Award winner. An extraordinary bassist, a sensitive and groovy album to the core!On this album, she is notably accompanied by wind player Casey Benjamin, drummer Robert \"Sput\" Searight, and keyboardists Caleb McCampbell, Julian Pollack, Nicholas Semrad, and Brett Williams. Michael League, also a bassist, also played keyboards, electric sitar, and fretless baritone electric guitar. Michael League, the co-producer, helped highlight Glyk's qualities as a composer, her virtuoso bass playing forming the ideal foundation for the band's momentum and spatial interaction.\"Real Life\" is not only Glyk's first album in over four years, but also her most distinctive to date. The signature of this generational talent has never been heard as clearly as here. The songs were created in the winter of 2022 at the Ligues Estudi Vint in Catalonia, Spain, and Grammy winner Nic Hard (Snarky Puppy, Charlie Hunter) was involved in the recordings as a sound engineer.\"During my first conversation with Michael, he asked me what I wanted to say with the music,\" reports Kinga Glyk. \"My answer was: I want to lead with the bass, but I don't want people to think it's just 'a bass album.' It's more about creating beautiful songs. Even without lyrics, music can be interesting and powerful enough to touch your heart. I love expressing my feelings through music and creating beautiful songs that touch the hearts of others. Were they made by a bassist? That's not what matters in the end. What matters is that you tell a story with the music.\"The 26-year-old Pole - who first generated millions of YouTube views with her viral bass covers of Eric Clapton, Bruno Mars, Vulfpeck, and others - is far from having reached the end of her development. And yet, she wanted to create something that could only come from her. Instrumental songs inspired by jazz and funk but also very contemporary, unique in their arrangement and aesthetic approach.To work together on her new songs, Glyk teamed up with like-minded musicians, such as wind player Casey Benjamin (Robert Glasper Experiment, Stefon Harris), drummer Robert \"Sput\" Searight (Snarky Puppy, Kirk Franklin, Ghost-Note), a number of keyboard wizards like Caleb McCampbell (Beyoncé, Michael Bublé), Julian Pollack (Marcus Miller, David Sanborn, Joe Lovano), Nicholas Semrad (Ms. Lauryn Hill, Talib Kweli, Bootsy Collins), and their long-time creative partner Brett Williams (Marcus Miller, Mumford and Sons, Stevie Wonder). Michael League, as Glyk's bassist, contributes additional keyboards as well as electric guitar, electric sitar, and baritone electric guitar. As co-producer, League helps give Glyk's compositional talent the space it deserves, while her virtuoso bass playing forms the sonic fixed point from which spatial interactions with the band emanate and drive them forward. Even purely instrumental tracks can thus be deeply captivating and emotional, like \"Unfollower\" or the lively \"Swimming In The Sky,\" each based on deeply personal storytelling. Kinga Glyk forms an almost symbiotic unity with her instrument, setting the tone between lead and rhythm, supported by memorable melodies and a springy groove.","brand":"Kinga Glyk","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57531512324440,"sku":null,"price":20240126.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/vinyles.com\/en\/products\/kinga-glyk_real-life_2024_war_1","provider":"Vinyles.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}