Biographies

Michał Górczyński

Bass Clarinet, Looper, Composer, Founder

He is a trained clarinet player. Last year he graduated the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music. In 1998 together with “Michal Górczynski Trio” he was awarded a prize at the first folk music festival “Nowa Tradycja” and had the opportunity to make recordings for the archives of Polish Radio. He also recorded a radio programme for Polish Radio 2. In these years he cooperated with many persons involved in the theatre world (Pawel Mykietyn, Lech Jankowski, Magdalena Smalara, Artur Lis and his “Teatr Plastyczny Makata”, Marcin Wrona) and the world of classical music (performance at Warsaw Autumn conducted by Jacek Kasprzyk, peformance with Polish Radio orchestra conducted by Jerzy Maksymiuk, performances with many conductors cooperating with Warsaw Academy of Music Orchestra). He cooperated with persons involved in vanguard music and performance art (Mikolaj Trzaska, Peter Kowald, Andrzej Izdebski, Michal Gos, Zdzislaw Piernik, Marek “Rogulus” Rogulski, Marek Zygmunt, Janusz Smyk, Mariusz Maciejewski, Janusz Baldyga, Pola Dwurnik, Anna Baumgard). He have recorded three albums: Boys Band Trio “Curvatura Grande”, 2000; Pink Freud “Zawijasy”, 2000; Górczynski / Piernik, 2001. With Boys Band Trio, in which he plays tenor saxophone and do performance, I twice toured Russia in 2001 and 2002 (tours were organised by Sacha Cheparuchin, the manager of Hun Huur Tu). He played in yaroslav, Petersburg and Moscow. Since 1998 he has developed the idea of “survival performance” based on the “Energistic Manifest”. I implement this idea by my activity as a performer (festivals: Gdynia Summer Jazz Days, “Zadlo”, galleries “Spiz 7”, “Eufemia”, Dom Plastyka”, “Kotlownia”) and an author of educational projects (he graduated the intercollegiate Pedagogical College, he teach, he attend musicotherapy training). He works on the developmnet of his theories (publications in “Heksis”, “Cogito”, Utforum”). Currently he is writing music to texts by Itzig Manger a Jewish poet writing in yiddish. He will also continue his cooperation with folk musicians (music to kurpian poetry for an ensemble of bass clarinet, violin, bagpipe).

Tomasz Wiracki

Piano

Tomasz Wiracki - composer and pianist born in Krakow, author of music to several films. He creates soundtracks for theaters, museums and mappings around the world. An active pianist, he performs solo as well as with many ensembles of outstanding musicians.

He currently lives and works in Warsaw.

Sean Palmer

Vocals

He met Michał in 2013 playing together in a wedding band (All Stars Dancing Band) that never played a wedding. It was obvious that their energies were destined to unite at some point.

Sean trained in theatre and arts in Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.

He has been a part of the Warsaw theatre and performance scene since 2000 traversing night clubs to national museums, Ancient Greek musical reconstruction to Broken Beat MC, fringe experiments to opera, solo shows and television, classical concerts to vocal improvisation, avant-garde to mainstream. He is an active creator, collaborator and educator.

He began his own experimental choir in 2010 (GRE BADANIE) exploring the boundaries of sound and energy as a carrier of meaning. Touring shows to the UK and PL.

2014-2019 he was the resident artistic director/conductor of the POLIN museum community choir which performed two original performative concerts yearly. Sean is not a trained musician, however, has found himself composing for theatre and choirs as well as singing and recording in multifarious settings.

Since 2015 he has been the front man of the White Kites (psyche rock group “Missing” 2014 and “Devillusion” 2020).

Apart from all the above ‘arty stuff’, he’s also a big kid, a dad and a husband, has two children, two cats, loves running and doesn’t eat animals.