Artur Olender

Snu cień [Shadow of Dream]

2012 r.

13th of December 2010, having sailed over a thousand nautical mile from the Horn to Antarctica and back, in a storm whose scale surpassed 220 km/h, there sank on the shores of the land of Fire, struck by a wave of tens of metres the Polish yacht, “Nashachata”. In the catastrophe died my friend – the captain, and his brother. The wreck was flung onto the reef of Slogett Bay, which constituted the refuge for the remains of the exhausted crew, rescued the next day by a boat of the Argentine Navy.

This album is my personal account of the trip, about the night and the dawn which I survived in the wreck of the yacht and, finally, about the emotions therein aroused that remain with me to this very day.

This album is my tale of life and death.

1. snu cień I [Shadow of Dream I]
2. don’t go
3. carpe diem
4. living God
5. biały wiersz [Blank Verse]
6. snu cień II [Shadow of Dream II]
7. rejs piekło-niebo [The Hell-Heaven Voyage]
8. na wieczny czas [For Time Eternal]
9. ostatnie tango [The Last tango]
10. Mama [Mum]
11. ballada o psie [Ballad about a Dog]
12. cud [Miracle]
13. testament

Lyrics and music: Artur Olender
No. 8 – lyrics, music: Szymon Zych

Band:

Artur Olender – vocals
Piotr Grodecki – guitars
Krzysztof Cyran – acoustic guitar (7,10)
Dawid Rudnicki – keyboard instruments (1,10)
Witalij Iwanow – saxophones
Paweł Solecki – bassoon, melodica
Michał Braszak – bass guitar (2,5,6,11,12,13), loops
Wojciech Famielec – bass guitar (1,3,4,7,10)
Gertruda Szymańska – percussion instruments
Grzegorz Fieber – percussion

Guest appearances:

Paulina Kujawska – vocals, backing vocals (1,2,6,10,12)
Jacek Dewódzki – vocals, backing vocals (1,3)
Łukasz „Wiśnia” Wiśniewski – harmonica (1,5,11)
Dominik Wania – keyboard instruments (1,2,3,6,9,10,12,13)
Szymon Zych – vocals, piano (8)

Musical direction: Krzysztof Cyran

Production: Aleksander Wilk, STUDIO 2002, January 2011– May 2012

Photos: Marek Radwański, Piotr Majcherkiewicz and Wacław Wantuch

Graphic design: Adam Borkowski