Real Life Kinga Glyk

• 1Fast Life03:58
• 2Unfollower03:48
• 3Who Cares03:41
• 4Island05:28
• 5Not Real05:50
• 6Unseen Bruises01:38
• 7Swimming in the Sky04:54
• 8The Friend You Call05:01
• 9That Right There05:01
• 10Funny Bunny00:35
• 11Sadness Does Not Last Forever05:02
• 12Opinions03:14
• Total Runtime48:10

Info for Real Life

Neo-Funk and thrilling Grooves: Groundbreaking bassist/composer Kinga Głyk has released of her eagerly anticipated new album, Real Life.

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.

Kinga Głyk, electric bass & vocals
Casey Benjamin, aerophone (solo)
Brett Williams, keyboards (solo)
Julian Pollack, keyboards
Nicholas Semrad, keyboards
Michael League, keyboards, fretless baritone electric guitar, electric sitar
Robert “Sput” Searight, drums

Engineered and mixed by Nic Hard at Estudi Vint in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Mastered by Dave McNair in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, USA
Co-produced by Michael League
Produced by Kinga Głyk

Kinga Glyk
is 20 years old. She’s said to be the best Polish bass player of the new generation and a rising star of the Jazz Blues music. She began her adventure with music at the age of 12 playing in a family band called Głyk P.I.K. TRIO. Despite her young age she has already given a lot of concerts not only in Poland but also in countries such as Indonesia, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Portugal, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Ukraine.

In March 2015 she released her debut album „Rejestracja”. The CD has received positive reviews from Trójka – Polskie Radio and magazines like „Jazz Forum” and „Twój Blues”.

In an annual survey called JAZZ TOP and BLUES TOP she’s been nominated in the following categories: NEW HOPE, BASS GUITAR and DISCOVERY OF THE YEAR.

In February 2016 Kinga recorded LIVE her second authorial album „Happy Birthday”.

In June 2016 a video of Kinga performing Eric Clapton’s „Tears in heaven” has been posted by BASS PLAYER UNITED on Facebook reaching the amount of 20 million views.

Until now Kinga has performed with: Tim Garland, Nitai Hershkovits, Greg Hutchinson, Jnr Robinson, Bernard Maseli, Ruth Waldron, Natalia Niemen, Apostolis Anthimos, Leszek Winder, Paweł Tomaszewski, Grzegorz Kapołka, Joachim Mencel, Arek Skolik, Mateusz Otremba (Mate.O), Marek Dykta and Piotr Wyleżoł.

In October 2017 the latest studio album „Dream” has been released. The CD has been recorded in the company of the world’s most famous musicians such as Greg Hutchinson (drums), Tim Garland (saxophone), Nitai Hershkovits (grand piano). The album has been launched by one of the world’s most renowned music publishing companies WARNER MUSIC GROUP COMPANY. Concerts promoting the newest album will take place in countries like USA, Canada, Norway, France and many others.

This album contains no booklet.