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Kinga Głyk | “Real Life”

Kinga Głyk returns with Real Life

Groundbreaking bassist/composer unveils

genre-defying new album



Produced by Kinga Głyk & co-produced by 5x GRAMMY® Award-winner Michael League (Snarky Puppy, David Crosby)

Available Now via Warner Music

Stream the single “Who Cares” here

Głyk is on the cover of Amazon’s playlist “The Pocket”


Groundbreaking bassist/composer Kinga Głyk has announced the release of her eagerly anticipated new album, Real Life, arriving via Warner Music on Friday, Jan 26th.

Recorded with GRAMMY® Award-winning engineer/mixer Nic Hard (Snarky Puppy, Charlie Hunter, Ute Lemper) in multiple sessions during winter 2022-23 at Michael League’s Estudi Vint in Catalonia, Spain, Real Life marks Kinga Głyk’s first new album in more than four years as well as the most distinctive work of her still-evolving career. The 26-year-old, Poland/France-based musician – who affirmed herself as a generational talent with international live performances along with millions of YouTube views for viral bass covers of Eric Clapton, Bruno Mars, Vulfpeck, and more – endeavored to create something utterly her own, a one of-a-kind strain of contemporary instrumental songcraft inspired by jazz and funk but uniquely original in arrangement and aesthetic approach.

“In my first conversation with Michael, he asked me what I wanted to say through the music,” Kinga Glyk says. “I told him, I want to lead with the bass but I don’t want people to think this is just a bassist’s album. The idea was creating beautiful songs. Music can be interesting and strong enough itself to touch your heart even if there are no lyrics. I love to use music to describe my feelings and to make beautiful songs that can touch someone’s heart. You don’t necessarily think, oh, it must be a bass player who made this. It’s more about telling stories through music.”

Głyk is joined by such like-minded musicians as aerophonist Casey Benjamin (Robert Glasper Experiment, Stefon Harris) and drummer Robert “Sput” Searight (Snarky Puppy, Kirk Franklin, Ghost-Note), as well as a cadre of crack keyboardists including Caleb McCampbell (Beyoncé, Michael Bublé), Julian Pollack (Marcus Miller, David Sanborn, Joe Lovano), Nicholas Semrad (Miss Lauryn Hill, Talib Kweli, Bootsy Collins), and longtime collaborator Brett Williams (Marcus Miller, Mumford and Sons, Stevie Wonder). League, a fellow bassist, contributes additional keyboards, plus electric guitar, electric sitar, and fretless baritone electric guitar. As co-producer, League helped place Glyk’s compositional gifts at the forefront, her virtuoso bass playing providing an ideal foundation for the group’s spatial interaction and forward motion. Though wordless, tracks like “Unfollower” and the vibrant “Swimming In The Sky” are fueled by deeply personal storytelling and exceedingly focused conceptual ideas, her emotionally charged approach to her instrument remarkable in its idiosyncratic movement between lead and rhythm, indelible melody, and elastic groove.

CD: tracks 01 – 12

Digital: tracks 01 – 12

Vinyl: tracks 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 07, 08, 09, 11

01. Fast Life 

Written by Kinga Głyk, Michael League, Brett Williams, Casey Benjamin, Robert “Sput” Searight

Kinga Głyk – electric bass & vocals

Casey Benjamin – aerophone (solo)

Brett Williams – keyboards (solo)

Julian Pollack – keyboards

Nicholas Semrad – keyboards

Michael League – keyboards

Robert “Sput” Searight – drum set

02. Unfollower

Written by Kinga Głyk, Michael League

Kinga Głyk – electric bass

Casey Benjamin – aerophone

Brett Williams – keyboards

Julian Pollack – keyboards

Nicholas Semrad – keyboards

Michael League – keyboards & fretless baritone electric guitar

Robert “Sput” Searight – drum set

03. Who Cares

Written by Kinga Głyk, Michael League

Kinga Głyk – electric bass (solo)

Casey Benjamin – aerophone

Brett Williams – keyboards

Julian Pollack – keyboards

Nicholas Semrad – keyboards (solo)

Michael League – electric sitar

Robert “Sput” Searight – drum set

04. Island

Written by Kinga Głyk, Michael League, Brett Williams

Kinga Głyk – electric bass

Casey Benjamin – aerophone

Brett Williams – keyboards

Julian Pollack – keyboards

Michael League – keyboards & electric guitar

Robert “Sput” Searight – drum set (solo)

05. Not Real

Written by Kinga Głyk

Kinga Głyk – electric bass (solo)

Casey Benjamin – aerophone

Brett Williams – keyboards

Robert “Sput” Searight – drum set

06. Unseen Bruises

Written by Kinga Głyk

Kinga Głyk – electric bass

Casey Benjamin – aerophone

Brett Williams – keyboards

Robert “Sput” Searight – drums

07. Swimming in the Sky

Written by Kinga Głyk, Michael League

Kinga Głyk – electric bass

Caleb McCampbell – keyboards (solo)

Casey Benjamin – aerophone (solo)

Brett Williams – keyboards

Julian Pollack – keyboards

Robert “Sput” Searight – drum set

08. The Friend You Call

Written by Kinga Głyk, Michael League

Kinga Głyk – electric bass

Caleb McCampbell – keyboards (solo)

Casey Benjamin – aerophone

Brett Williams – keyboards

Nicholas Semrad – keyboards (solo)

Robert “Sput” Searight – drum set

09. That Right There

Written by Michael League

Kinga Głyk – electric bass

Casey Benjamin – aerophone

Brett Williams – keyboards

Julian Pollack – keyboards (even solos)

Nicholas Semrad – keyboards (odd solos)

Robert “Sput” Searight – drum set

10. Funny Bunny

Written by Kinga Głyk

Kinga Głyk – electric bass, vocals

11. Sadness Does Not Last Forever

Written by Kinga Głyk, Michael League

Kinga Głyk – electric bass

Casey Benjamin – aerophone (solo)

Brett Williams – keyboards

Julian Pollack – keyboards (solo)

Nicholas Semrad – keyboards

Robert “Sput” Searight – drum set

12. Opinions

Written by Kinga Głyk, Michael League

Kinga Głyk – electric bass (solo)

Casey Benjamin – aerophone

Brett Williams – keyboards

Julian Pollack – keyboards

Nicholas Semrad – keyboards

Michael League – keyboards

Robert “Sput” Searight – drums

Produced by Kinga Głyk

Co-produced by Michael League

Engineered and mixed by Nic Hard at Estudi Vint in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Mastered by Dave McNair in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, USA


Photo by Peter Hönnemann


Kinga Glyk · Real Life

Warner Music · Release Date: January 26, 2024



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