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2002 studio album by Anna Maria Jopek and Friends with Pat Metheny
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Upojenie (English: Ecstasy ) is a 2002 collaboration between singer Anna Maria Jopek and guitarist Pat Metheny , recorded in Warsaw, Poland. It features Jopek's compositions and traditional folk song arrangements, as well as some of Metheny's well-known tracks, such as "Are You Going with Me?" and "Follow Me". Finally, there is "Polskie drogi" ("Polish Paths") – a cover of a main theme for a film series of the same title by Andrzej Kurylewicz .
In 2008 an international edition of the album was released by Nonesuch Records . The running order of the selections is different and three additional songs are included.
Track listing
Title Writer(s) 1. "Cichy zapada zmrok" Traditional 3:28 2. "Przypływ, odpływ, oddech czasu" (Tell Her You Saw Me) Metheny, Polish lyrics by Magda Czapińska 4:52 3. "Tam, gdzie nie sięga wzrok" (Follow Me) Metheny, Lyle Mays , Polish lyrics by Czapińska 3:52 4. "Biel" Marcin Kydryński 3:24 5. "Czarne słowa" Jopek 5:15 6. "Letter from Home" Metheny 2:50 7. "Are You Going with Me?" Metheny, Mays 8:34 8. "Zupełnie inna ja" (Always and Forever) Metheny, Polish lyrics by Kydryński 4:00 9. "Mania mienia" (So May It Secretly Begin) Metheny, Polish lyrics by Andrzej Poniedzielski 3:41 10. "By on był tu" (Farmer's Trust) Metheny, Polish lyrics by Poniedzielski 6:58 11. "Upojenie" Jopek, Stanisław Grochowiak 4:52 12. "Piosenka dla Stasia" Kydryński 3:54 13. "Me jedyne niebo" (Another Life) Metheny, Polish lyrics by Kydryński 3:16 14. "Polskie drogi" Andrzej Kurylewicz 2:33
2008 International Edition Title English Title 1. "Cichy zapada zmrok" Here Comes the Silent Dusk 3:26 2. "Mania mienia" So May It Secretly Begin 3:41 3. "Biel" Whiteness 3:22 4. "Przypływ, odpływ, oddech czasu..." High Tide, Low Tide, The Breath of Time... 4:45 5. "Are You Going with Me?" 8:35 6. "Czarne słowa" Black Words 5:13 7. "Lulajźe Jezuniu" Polish Christmas Carol 5:14 8. "Upojenie" Ecstasy 4:46 9. "Zupełnie inna ja" The Different Me 3:56 10. "Piosenka dla Stasia" A Song for Stas 3:48 11. "Letter from Home" 2:49 12. "Me jedyne niebo" My Only Heaven 3:18 13. "By on był tu" Let It Stay 6:56 14. "Polskie drogi" Polish Paths 2:50 15. "Tam, gdzie nie sięga wzrok" Further Than the Eye Can See 3:51 16. "Na całej połaci Śnieg" The Snow Falls All Over the Place 1:47 17. "Szepty i łzy" Whispers and Tears 4:47
Tracks 7, 16, and 17 are only on the international edition (2008).
Personnel
Anna Maria Jopek – vocals (tracks 1-10, 12, 13, 15-17), “soap opera” vocals (track 5), backing vocals (tracks 6, 8, 12, 15), Fender Rhodes (track 6)
Pat Metheny – 42-string Pikasso guitar (tracks 1, 6), electric guitar (tracks 2, 8), baritone guitar (tracks 3, 9), classical guitar (tracks 3, 7, 13), soprano guitar (tracks 4, 14), guitar synthesizer (tracks 5, 6, 12, 16, 17), keyboards (tracks 5, 10), acoustic guitar (tracks 6, 10, 15), soprano acoustic guitar (tracks 16, 17)
Leszek Mozdzer – piano (tracks 2, 4-8, 11, 13, 15-17)
Pawel Bzim Zarecki – keyboards (tracks 2, 4-6, 8, 12, 15-17), percussion (track 4), loops (tracks 4, 5), keyboard programming (track 10)
Bernard Maseli – vibraphone (track 2)
Darek Oleszkiewicz – acoustic bass (tracks 2, 4, 7, 8, 10, 12-14)
Cezary Konrad – drums (tracks 2, 4-8, 10, 12, 13, 15-17)
Piotr Nazaruk – backing vocals (track 2), recorder (track 2), flutes (tracks 4-6, 15), additional shaker (track 4), hammered dulcimer (track 5)
Wojciech Kowalewski – shaker (tracks 2, 4-6, 15), temple blocks (tracks 2, 6), timpani (track 4), crotales (tracks 4, 6, 12), bongos (tracks 4, 6), tambourine (track 5), bells (track 5), vibraslap (tracks 5, 12), claves (track 6)
Mateusz Pospieszalski – keyboard (track 2), loops (tracks 2, 12), orchestral chart (tracks 2, 12), conductor (tracks 2, 12)
Marek Pospieszalski – turntables (track 2)
Marcin Pospieszalski – Fender jazz bass (tracks 5, 6, 15), loops (track 15)
Marek Napiorkowski – classical guitar (track 8), strumming guitar (tracks 16, 17)
Henryk Miskiewicz – soprano saxophone (tracks 8, 9)
Mino Cinelu – udu drum (track 8), triangle (track 8), shakers (tracks 8, 12), crotales (tracks 8), conga (track 12), wavedrum (track 12), percussion (tracks 16, 17)
Robert Kubiszyn – double bass (tracks 16, 17)
Barney – “alien voices” (track 5)
Orchestra Conducted by Mateusz Pospieszalski (tracks 2, 12)
Krzysztof Bzówka, Józef Kolinek, Patrycja Jopek, Katarzyna Gilewska-Zagrodzińska, Artur Gadzała,
Robert Dąbrowski – violins
Włodzimierz Żurawski, Dariusz Kisieliński – violas
Jerzy Muranty, Janusz Olechwoski – cellos
Technical
Marcin Kydryński and Pat Metheny – producer
Anna Maria Jopek and Paweł Bzim Zarecki – co-producers
Pat Metheny, Anna Maria Jopek, Mateusz Pospieszalski, Marcin Kydrynski, Pawel Bzim Zarecki, Leszek Mozdzer, Henryk Miskiewicz and Marcin Pospieszalski – arrangers
Jacek Zurawski – executive producer
Tadeusz Mieczkowski, Paweł Bzim Zarecki, Marcin Pospieszalski and Mateusz Pospieszalski – recording
Tadeusz Mieczkowski, Andrzej Karp (tracks 5, 12, 15), Joanna Popowicz (tracks 16, 17) – mixing
Kasia Mrozewska – design
Jacek Poremba – photography
Piotr Dumala – artwork
Charts and certifications
Weekly charts
Certifications
References
External links
Group albums
As leader
As group member/side man
Solo albums Collaborations
As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls (1981, Mays )
Song X (1986, Coleman )
Electric Counterpoint (1989)
I Can See Your House from Here (1994, Scofield )
Beyond the Missouri Sky (Short Stories) (1997, Haden )
Jim Hall & Pat Metheny (1999, Hall )
Upojenie (2002, Jopek )
Metheny Mehldau (2006, Mehldau )
Metheny Mehldau Quartet (2007, Mehldau)
Tap:John Zorn's Book of Angels Vol. 20 (2013, Zorn )
Cuong Vu Trio Meets Pat Metheny (2016, Vu )