Music is created for many different reasons. Sometimes the composers wish to express their joy or find consolation for their suffering in sounds. Some works are commissioned, while others are written in response to a sudden impulse and the music rises up on the winds of inspiration.

Some are merely composed as a mirror for the artist’s vanity, others - for purely commercial reasons, to the rhythm of jingling coins that drown out all the more subtle sounds.

High Definition Quartet’s Forefathers’ Eve is perhaps the ensemble’s most original project so far, and can serve as proof that fresh starts are still possible in music. The author of the project’s concept, pianist and composer Piotr Orzechowski (b. 1990), has developed great skill in combining the worlds of jazz, classical, folk music, and others. A Berklee College of Music graduate and first prize winner in the Montreux Jazz Solo Piano Competition, Orzechowski has already recorded albums that are daring attempts at reinterpreting Johann Sebastian Bach, Krzysztof Penderecki, but also a familiar Polish folk dance – the oberek.

In Forefathers’ Eve, the intention has been to bring together jazz, electronic and ambient music in order to represent our familiar contemporary humanphysical world’s glimpse into the mysterious other world of spirits, phantoms, and legends.

Tracks:
1. The Living Dead
2. Preparations
3. Little Angels
4. Vodka-Pot
5. The Lord and Nocturnal Birds
6. The Wreath
7. The Maiden
8. Closure
9. The Spectre
10. Epilogue

High Definition Quartet:
- Mateusz Śliwa (tenor saxophone)
- Piotr Orzechowski ‘Pianohooligan’ (piano)
- Alan Wykpisz (double bass)
- Grzegorz Pałka (drums)