Aldona Nowowiejska
Songs of the
Slavic soul
http://aldona.trad.org
Polish
actress, singer and musician, Aldona sings a broad repertoire of poetry for
which she composed the music herself and of traditional songs from various
origins.
Guitars,
violin, domra and accordion accentuate every variation of her voice: sometimes
sweet as velvet, sometimes screaming, but always subtle. She loves to switch
between different registers, styles and atmospheres and she also loves to surprise
her public. Between sweetness and violence, between sadness and happiness, as
strong and as fragile as life, she moves the auditor by her vocal and musical
skills, by her presence on stage and her poetic aura, by the simple ways she
opens her soul. Telling one more anecdote, Aldona will bring him in her
universe, in Poland … or somewhere else?
"In
my songs I try to tell the world as I see it and as all I can say is beyond
words I express it through the music. The music finds the words by the poets,
these one know better what I want to say." (Aldona Nowowiejska)
After four years of concerts in
Parisian cafés, Aldona's show has been presented in Paris at the
"Satellit", "Entrepôt", at the festivals "Montmartre
en Europe", "nos Europes" at the second "cité des plumes
d'Oniropolis", twice at the "Printemps des Poètes" festival and
at the Polish institute in Paris. Aldona also toured to Dijon, to
"Jazzgot" in Warsaw, to the "Uroczysko" festival in Supraśl,
to the MDK in Zgierz (Poland), to "Rekstensamlingene" and to Bergen
International Culture Center (Norway). She won the coup de cœur prize from Anne Vanderlove at the "festival de la
chanson Française de La Planche" in 1999 and the first prize at the festival
of Polish song in Paris also in 1999.
During these concerts, Aldona
recorded a live CD containing her 22 composed poems. Another concert was
broadcast live on Télé Plaisance on august the 19th, 2000. Among her
appearances on the radio (on Aligre FM in Paris, radio Coloriage in Dijon and
Kystradioen in Bergen), she has been invited to present in a series of four
broadcast named "Trans-histoires" on Aligre FM the songs of her
childhood in Poland, of her teenage and of her parents.
Aldona plays regularly in the
musical cafés that have produced famous bands in Paris: "Attirail",
"chez Ariane", "Trois Chapeaux", "les Uns les
Autres", "Kibélé", "Chat Noir", "Connétable"
…
"Her music
transforms bodies into wisps of straw swaying under the wind of slavic plains."
from the press communiqué of la Grange de Noidan.
"Beautiful songs.
I love your shiny eyes and your crazy voice. Very powerful." Amy C.
"I have
thoroughly enjoyed listening to you play. Some of it was fascinating, some was
moving, some was amusing, altogether I have had a lovely evening." Sarah
C.
"The sound is
lovely and it surrounds. It creates a sense of nostalgia. I cannot understand
the words and this is unfortunate, but I can hear the voice and I can imagine
that the words are equally beautiful." Matt(eusz).
Contact : Aldona
Nowowiejska,
53 bd de
Belleville F-75011 Paris, France.
Tel.: +33 1 48 06 23 74. Mob.: +33 6 60 12 39 33 aldona@voila.fr