14/12/08: "Reflections on 2008 and upcoming 2009 Projects" I have to say that 2008 was a truly great year and a milestone in my own career and musical development. I managed to connect with so many great musicians, put together a few bands, played many great gigs, finished my debut album, composed a lot of new music and hopefully became a better person and musician. The New Year is approaching and next year I will continue to work with my Trio. I am currently in the process of booking shows, so stay tuned for those, I will post them on the website as soon as I have everything confirmed. I will also continue to work with Lyveden Project, playing few times a month at our regular spot Jazz After Dark in Soho and other venues as well. What a good fun this band is, playing with Phil, Pierre, Kate and Susana and other people. I will also be doing a Coffee House tour around the UK playing acoustic guitar with a great artist Sylvia Powell who is promoting her new album. I will also be doing solo guitar performances and duo gigs with percussion promoting my solo record. There will be some more recordings with the Trio and currently you can enjoy three tracks from our Demo. Thanks to Dado and Jerell for their support and contribution to this project! If that wasn't enough I can tell you that there are number of other projects in the pipeline as well..:) It's going to be a busy year. I have big plans for this coming year and I can feel it's going to be really good one. A piece of advice for everybody out there: don't worry about what people are telling you about credit crunch and that things are going to be bad, etc. Remember, you create your own reality and with positive attitude you can stay away from all the stuff:) Be positive and listen to your heart!
Best,
Maciek
24/09/08: The CD is finally ready! It is a compilation of 10 tunes I wrote over the last couple of years, recorded mainly at my home studio. The music is instrumental and acoustic and I think it represents a good mix of all my different influences. Most of tunes feature myself on one or two guitars(not at the same time!:) and I play Cajon on one tune. My friend Rysiek Graca plays nylon string classical guitar in the tune called 'Under the Sky' which we wrote together earlier in the year. The CD will be mainly available for sale at my concerts but you can email me if you are interested in receiving a copy. Special thanks to Dirk Bertelmann who is now also my official manager for designing the CD and helping me release it, a truly great guy and fantastic friend!
16/09/08: Hi all, Just wanted to let you know that I am now being featured at a great website called Dectatoma run by my friend Lean Rodrigues. Lean has conducted many very good interviews with some great muscians and it's an honour for me to be part of his great work. Please visit www.Dectatoma.eu and direct link to biography is http://www.Dectatoma.eu/bio_maciek_pysz_en.htm
