celticmusic – Paweł Biliński

Mixing sessions for the new album

2024-03-12

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As I already announced, this year will see the premiere of harpist Amelia Tokarska’s debut album, of which I am the producer, arranger and art director. After completing all the recording sessions – several at the The Cavatina Hall in Bielsko-Biała and a few in Studio S2 of the Polish Radio, it was time for the mixing sessions. Together with the amazing Tadeusz Mieczkowski, we are working intensively on the sound quality in his Mastersound studio – stereo and Dolby Atmos™ mixes. Setup made for recording harps, including few pairs of top-quality microphones (DPA, Neumann, Shoeps, Royer, Coles) gave incredible possibilites to make harps, percussion and whistles sound natural, wide and without cutting any important details. The fantastic experience of one of Europe’s top sound engineers gives me confidence that the album will be of the highest audio quality.

Mixing with Tadeusz Mieczkowski at Mastersound studio — Mastersound Tadeusz Mieczkowski Studio

P.S: We already know under which label the album will be published, but you’ll have to be patient for a while yet! It’s going to be a truly amazing adventure.

Stay tuned, we’re getting closer in this project but it’s not the only one I’m working on.

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Tadeusz Mieczkowski – is a graduate of the Faculty of Sound Direction at the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw – diploma in 1989 with the specialisation in phonographic recordings. During his studies he took up a job at the Directorate of Music Recordings of the Polish Radio in Warsaw. He realizes radio and television broadcasts of concerts of great world stars, e.g. Natalie Cole, Tori Amos, and others. Natalie Cole, Tori Amos, Genesis or Gordon Haskel. He records film music, pop, folk and folk music. Most of his recordings have been made in the recording studios of the Polish Radio. In 2007, he set up his own company, Master Sound, making excellent recordings and mastering while continuing to work with Polish Radio.

He works with the biggest stars of the Polish music market, both in the field of classical and pop music, including Edyta Górniak, Anna Maria Jopek, Henryk Miśkiewicz, Krzesimir Dębski, Ewa Małas-Godlewska, Zbigniew Preisner, Leszek Możdżer, Sławomir Jaskułke, Tomasz Stańko, Adam Makowicz, Michał Lorenc, Piotr Damasiewicz, Robert Balzar and many others.

He also collaborates with leading film music composers and film directors. He has to his credit many recordings of music for outstanding Polish films and hundreds of albums. His recordings are released in many countries and have very good reviews. He has been nominated for the Fryderyk award in the Sound Director category several times, and in 2003 he received this award for co-producing Anna Maria Jopek’s album with Pat Metheny.

Marcin Rumiński, Paweł Biliński, Tadeusz Mieczkowski at Polish Radio S2 studio during recording sessions

Sessions in Polish Radio for upcoming album

2023-10-30

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In October, I had the opportunity to organise additional recording sessions for Amelia Tokarska’s upcoming harp album with my adaptations of Celtic music. As part of the session, whistles and pipes were recorded with the participation of virtuoso Marcin Rumiński from the band SHANNON, known for his collaborations with such artists as Zbigniew Namysłowski, Grzegorz Turnau, Michał Urbaniak and many others. The incredible Tadeusz Mieczkowski was in charge of mixing and mastering of the entire upcoming album. Several types of whistles and pipes were included as a complementary element in the album, an important part of the adaptation of more and less known Celtic music harp themes. The recordings were made in the S2 studio of Polish Radio and are ready for release also in Dolby Atmos™ standard. The session was a great pleasure for me as a producer, arranger and art-director of this project. There was a profound understanding between me, Marcin and Tadeusz in terms of (not only) the musical aspects.

Stay tuned, more news is coming soon!

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Marcin Rumiński – multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger, session musician, singer, storyteller, dubbing actor. Leader and founder of the bands: SHANNON (since 1994), HOBOUD (founded 2008) and KRIVE (since 2021). He specialises in playing folk instruments: wind, string and percussion. As a composer and arranger, he often goes back to his folk roots to combine modern music and ethnic music influences from around the world. In addition to the work contained in the band’s activities, he realises himself as a music producer, recording artist and creator of musical settings for films, theatre plays, radio plays, podcasts, performance readings and cultural and corporate events. In 2014, he was awarded the Prize of the Marshal of the Warmińsko-Mazurskie Voivodeship in the field of culture and from the Minister of Culture and National Heritage – “Meritorious for Culture”.

Paweł Biliiński arrangements during album recording in Cavatina Hall with Amelia Tokarska

Let the dance begin!

2023-05-11

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“Let the dance begin” – as ending lyrics from Genesis “Dance on a volcano” said. Last year, I started to work intensively on a few musical projects in a variety of roles – as an arranger, composer, producer and keyboard player. This website will guide all the people that are interested in my work, including some spicy details on my work. To be precise from the very beginning (since I don’t like making only communication noise at all): I am currently running four projects that vary in terms of the degree of progress – different by genre, approach and people I cooperate with.

Shortly: harp album including Celtic and Scottish themes played by a fantastic harpist Amelia Tokarska, piano&violin project (truly: very tough to categorize, but something between ambient, contemporary music with improvisation elements) with Krzysztof Maciejowski and…some other two I will show you soon – emotions guaranteed.

So many exciting musical moments with beautiful and hopefully inspiring stories behind them. Finally what’s the most important: at least one of those projects will be released as an album in a few months this year.

Stay tuned!

P.S: Photo from the Cavatina Hall in Bielsko-Biała during harp album recording sessions. Every
post will include some photos from my work, I hope you’ll enjoy.

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