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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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