From: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org (basia-digest) To: basia-digest@smoe.org Subject: basia-digest V13 #156 Reply-To: basia@smoe.org Sender: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "basia-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. basia-digest Monday, September 7 2009 Volume 13 : Number 156 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Basia small phone interview by Marek Niedzwiecki [j w Subject: Re: Basia small phone interview by Marek Niedzwiecki Great. Can't she just leave the samba in the damn samba songs? - ----- Original Message ---- From: Krysia Szurek To: Basia List Yahoo ; basia@smoe.org Sent: Saturday, September 5, 2009 7:46:54 AM Subject: Basia small phone interview by Marek Niedzwiecki - -> This tour will be sort of introduction for a longer tour next year, as Basia said - it will present interesting arrangements of the songs - e.g. samba like "Drunk on love" arrangement :-); they will have a great guitarrist that they have recently dicovered - Italian Giorgio Serci ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 06 Sep 2009 07:34:40 -0500 From: Bev Okin-Larkin Subject: Re: Basia small phone interview by Marek Niedzwiecki Krysia - thanks this is so exciting to have such an intimate musical experience with her, and to hear their new interpretations of her songs. Thanks for posting it for us! - -- Bev Okin-Larkin Krysia Szurek wrote: > Here are some tips from todays phone interview with Basia by Marek Niedzwiecki in Radio Zlote Przeboje: > > -> They are beggining the intensive rehersals before the tour and Basie feels she's in really good shape (vocally); > -> This tour will be sort of introduction for a longer tour next year, as Basia said - it will present interesting arrangements of the songs - e.g. samba like "Drunk on love" arrangement :-); they will have a great guitarrist that they have recently dicovered - Italian Giorgio Serci > -> THEY WANT TO RECORD THESE PERFORMANCES - cause this will be sth new (so I hope we can expect it on a CD sometime :-)) > -> 5 concerts in London are going to be sort of worming up for the tour - as Basia revealed - she never performed in such a small venue (about 100 people fitting in Pizza on teh Park), so it's gonna be a new experience, but as she said, she likes to se the faces of the audience. > -> They will tour than to Poland, Japan, Philippines adn end in the US > -> The US tour dates agreements are being finalized now - as she said - the promoter put the dates that way that they would have to travel in one day from one side to the other and that would be really exhausting - so right now their manager is trying to order that a bit - but she can feel the preassure from the US fans to perform there :-) > -> She is a bit nervous, cause last she performed live 4 years ago with MB, but than she performed as part of a band, and it will be her first solo tour in many years; she also can't wait to sing the new songs live :-) > -> If not now than when was actually an instrumental piece written by Kevin for a jazz band quite a while ago but Basia liked it so much that she asked him if she can write lyrics to it and put it on her new album > -> She has great memories from her last promo tour in Poland (very warm welcome; she met Anna Maria Jopek and Kayah thanks to Marek; she could notice that the Polish TV really developed in comparison to what she saw when she was on some interviews there over 10 years ago; MagicRecords - their Polsih label - as she says - is a great, young, very professional team) > -> Asked what would be the 3rd single, she says that it will probably differ in different places - she would really like it to be "I must" > -> Kevin really likes to come to Poland, especially they like to come by car; they have actually spent fev days here recently - going to Bieszczady mountains (Southeastern Poland - my home town is actually not very far from there) and Warsaw; Kevin speaks polish better and - as Basia laughed - he feels honorary Polish :-) > > Krysia > > > _________________________________________________________________ > More than messagescheck out the rest of the Windows Live. > http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/ > > - -- - -- Bev Okin-Larkin ------------------------------ End of basia-digest V13 #156 ****************************