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 [ edit ] 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 [ edit ] Anna Maria Jopek – vocals, electric piano Pat Metheny – guitars, guitar synthesizer, 42-string guitar, synthesizers (tracks 1–5 and 7–14) Cezary Konrad – drums (tracks 2, 3, 5, 7, and 9–13) Leszek Możdżer – piano (tracks 2, 3, 5, 6, and 9–11) Pawel Bzim Zarecki – synthesizers, organ, percussion (tracks 2, 3, 5, 7, 9, and 11–13) Darek Oleszkiewicz – double bass (tracks 2 and 9–14) Wojciech Kowalewski – percussion (tracks 2, 3, 5, 7, and 13) Piotr Nazaruk – flute, recorder, hammered dulcimer, banjo, vocals, percussion (tracks 2, 5, and 7) Marcin Pospieszalski – bass guitar (tracks 3, 5, and 7) Henryk Miśkiewicz – soprano saxophone (tracks 8 and 11) Mateusz Pospieszalski – synthesizer (tracks 9 and 13) Mino Cinelu – percussion (tracks 11 and 13) Orchestra conducted by Mateusz Pospieszalski (tracks 9 and 13) Bernard Maseli – vibraphone (track 9) Marek Napiórkowski – guitar (track 11) Barney – alien vocals (track 7) Charts and certifications [ edit ] Weekly charts [ edit ] Certifications [ edit ] References [ edit ] External links [ edit ]
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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 )