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Motion Trio

'Play-Station'

(CDATR0705)

Musicians
Janusz Wojtarowicz - lead accordion
Pawel Baranek - accordion
Marcin Galazyn - accordion

Label - Asphalt Tango, Germany
Released 2005

Polish accordion band with attitude.

From record label:
"Motion Trio Reclaim the sounds!
This innovative Polish trio founded in 1996 has already successfully changed the face of their instrument: The accordion.
Most of the music played by this ‘Trio Infernal’ so masterly is written by Janusz Wojtarowicz. The vanguard sound collages range somewhere between minimal music, jazz and disco polo - and meet the Notion of Motion: to redefine the accordion and explore soundscapes far beyond what has been experienced and associated with this instrument to date.
On their album “Play-Station” the three musicians from Cracow concentrate their efforts on reclaiming sounds from the digital world. Six hands pick up electrically generated notes and turn them into acoustic anthems on their instrument of choice: the accordion. All of a sudden a 'playstation' offers more than 100 buttons!"

"Other instruments like the violin, guitar and piano have already been exhausted in their own ways, and at this point not much new can really be done with them. It's entirely different with the accordion, which is only just now being gradually discovered and played experimentally. Accordion traditionalists have run out of ideas, and it is our goal to extract notes from the accordion which have never been heard before, to develop completely new sounds and forms, and transfer them onto CD as well as of course to present them live."
Janusz Wojtarowicz
Motion Trio

Despite their youthful age Motion Trio has worked with artists such as Bobby McFerrin, Tomasz Stanko and Michal Urbaniak.

USD 16.99

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Motion Trio

' Play-Station'

(CDATR0705)

This symbol  indicates an mp3 sound clip for that track. Click on the symbol and wait for the clip to start. For more information click here. Tracks

1. Ufo (5'37")  2. You dance (4'23") 3. Tranceaccordion (4'45") 4. Helicopter (5'27") 5. Chinatown (3'16") 6. Tilt (2'07") 7. Fly (1'03") 8. Yellow Trabant (4'29") 9. Carrousel (5'12") 10. Stars (6'38") 11. Game over (3'54") 12. You dance (techno version) (4'10") Duration (51'07")

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