Meeting with ex
(16.12.2011) There were not many people at UrsynOFF last Sunday but two visitors were really special! Janusz Kossakowski, our ex-drummer, the STILO-member from "Szukaj!" album, with his daughter. Probably we saw Janusz last time in June 2005, on the occasion of recording tv programme "Anioł przychodzi wieczorem". Then Janusz went abroad, and till this Fall was outside Poland. .
Pictures from Podkowa #1
(25.01.2011) Wouldn't you like to secretly visit our rehearsal in Podkowa Leśna, near Warsaw, where we've been hard workin' on new material? It's simple - just click below. We promise you more in the future!
Zu takes Udaipur
(10.12.2010) Zuza has just came back from India, where she was living/traveling almost a month. - The culmination of my musical researches took place in Udaipur (Rajasthan), where I’ve decided to act. Delighted by live playin’ of mr. Naru on string instrument called ravanahttha, I wanted to play it by myself (which was not so easy). My performance caused big interest amongst Hindu →
(Polski) Zu & Goa
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Opowieści Kamieni Etno Tour 2010
(23.02.2010) New line-up. New formula of the band. Back on stage! It is our pleasure to announce that we have a new musician in the group - Adam Rozenman, playing on percussions. More about him - in the "Line-up" section. So STILO 2010 are: Zuza Kuczbajska – violin; Wojtek Stasiak – guitars; Tomasz Żur – bass; Adam Rozenman – percussions. These people (maybe sometimes →
New project for the beginning of the 2nd decade
(11.12.2009) Last October we celebrated 10th anniversary of first rehearsal STILO as a Real band. The historic moment of band’s birth took place in Ośrodek Kultury Ochota in Warsaw, and the participants were: Sylwia Świątkowska, Tomek Żur, Maciek Miroński and Wojtek Stasiak. Let’s drink to them! :-) Today the band is still alive, in good artistic condition and working on a new, unusual →
Time for good-bye
(7.09.2009) It is time to officially announce that two people left the band. The first one is our drummer, Jarek Cieślak. He has been with us since July 2005 – for a really long time. Unfortunately, he has a very demanding day job plus he is engaged in reactivation of his main band, called MROK. So together we have decided it is →
Our American Nomination!!!
(14.07.2009) Have we got the news for you! It is our great pleasure to let you know that the prestigious 2009 Just Plain Folks Music Awards nominated our last album "Lisboa Avenue” as one of the ten best albums in the „European Album" category. Just Plain Folks is a community/organization of over 51,500 songwriters, recording artists and music industry professionals from the →
Finish at Skład Butelek club
(6.03.2009) So it is time to end the Polish leg of Lisboa Ave Tour! It will happen in Warsaw, on Saturday 21st of March, in Skład Butelek club. We invite you the more so, because it will probably be the last gig of current line-up of the band. The next line-up is very slowly produced - all the time with next →
Through the clouds
(13.01.2009) And the next year is off! But Stilo lives all the time! Very, very slowly we are trying to play new sounds in our rehearsals room. Here and there we can see something through the clouds... We invite ev'rybody for one of the last concerts promoting 'Lisboa Avenue' album - on Thursday, 22nd of January, in Warsaw Saturator club.
Different kinds of magic
Fot. Ewa Hawryluk-Stasiak (14.05.2008) We are back from Prague (Czech Republic) right now, where we had played in well known jazz club U Maleho Glena - second time in our career, with contribution of Polish Institut again. When we play in this town, we always got some trouble. First time, few years ago, we had to go there without our violinist. Now we →
Portugal relief
(12.09.2007) Now something about last, special guests - musicians living few thousands kilometers away from our studio. They are singer Genoveva Faísca and guitarist Joăo Bengala, both from Lisbon. They have helped us in recording of composition called "Lisboa Avenue". How did they appear in this piece? First there was Genoveva, found in the neverending space of MySpace (actually on her webside http://www.myspace.com/genovevafaisca). →
Our guests…
(17.08.2007) So who were these guests? Let's start from the ex-members of Stilo - Sylwia Świątkowska and Marek Dutka. Sylwia arrived to help in building up violin-saxophone part of the last piece on the record, called then "No Name". Marek was invited to play saxophone in the same place - he answered that he was still not play sax anymore but he →
Recording is off. Time for mix.
Zuza. Fot. Wojtek Stasiak (20.07.2007) The recording session is off. Now the whole material is mixed. There are holidays around so this process can't be finished very soon, but we hope that we will have it done till the end of August. But the time is not the most important thing now, because the new album is planned to be released on →
Aka-demo
(21.05.2007) We have just finished recording the demo of our new record. The session lasted only two days and took place at the Warsaw Music Academy. The recording engineer was Michał Szpotakowski. The main reason to make the demo was to check how our music works on tape, where are the weaknesses - in the meaning of composition, arrangement and perfomance. →
Zuza is joining STILO!
(10.12.2006) The good news! We got new violinist! The last time when we played as a whole 5-members-band was about summer 2005. Then we still had problems with musicians. One came, the other gone. Finally we are "completed". The new face is Zuza Kuczbajska, young violinist from Warsaw. She has already played with us one time - on 16th November, in →
At NOK in full line-up
(14.11.2006) After more than 16 months we are gonna be back at the stage in full line-up! During the gig in NOK (Warsaw) we will be playing with violinist Zuza Kuczbajska. D'you know her? No? Great, so please come and listen. She will not play all the songs, because she didn't have time to prepare them and the violin will be less soloing than before. But →
MP3’s and new material
(3.10.2006) In a near future you will be able to buy our famous second record - "Idą czasy" - as a bunch of MP3's (a whole album or piece by piece - as You wish). It will be possible via portal www.serpent.pl. This will be the only legal way to buy this album, because in the real world we haven't got →
Four-pieces band with a jazzman
(30.03.2006) Our new soloist is the jazzy saxophone player Janusz Żukowski. You can see this version of STILO on our April' GOLEM TOUR (see details in the LIVE section), that includes show in Prague (Czech Republic), in one of the most known jazz club - U Maleho Glena.
The end of adventure with Sylwia
(1.03.2006) In the middle of February Sylwia had to finally leave the band. Reason? Her playing in Warsaw Village Band. It was impossible for her to connect this two bands, and it was impossible for us to make a cooperation deal with Warsaw Village Band. It was very sad decision but there was no other way. Sylwia was very important person in →
New ways without Damian
(13.01.2006) Thanx for all of you who came to first two gigs of new-old Stilo - at Jadłodajnia Filozoficzna club (Warsaw) and Dom Środowisk Twórczych (Kielce). Your warm support was really important for us. Kielce, December 2005. Fot. Ewa Hawryluk-Stasiak And what about Damian' story? He is not playing with us anymore for very simple reason - lack of time. He is very busy person who →
Return of Sylwia!
(1.12.2005) Sylwia Świątkowska is returning to Stilo! Nice news, isn't it? You can see her with us during two next concerts - on 8th of December at Jadłodajnia Filozoficzna and 11th at Kielce. What about Damian? Let us tell the story next time, in a few days. So now we have the old core in the group again - Sylwia, Tomek and Wojtek. New drummer, →
Good-bye and hello
(1.10.2005) The last appearance on TV ("Anioł przychodzi wieczorem" on TV Puls) turned out to be our last performance with two musicians: drummer Janusz Kossakowski and saxophonist Marek Dutka. The next episode of STILO was over. Stilo on TV Puls. Last time together. From left: Janusz, Wojtek, Marek, Tomek. And what was later? Holidays... No concerts, no obligations... At the end of June we started the rehealsals with →
Evening angels
(24.06.2005) A lot of things have happened since our last news. Firstly - our new album. You can buy it in more music stores than before (i.e.: various EMPiK shops or Hey Joe in Warsaw - Złota 8 str.) or on-line (i.e.: www.serpent.pl, www.folk.pl, www.merlin.com.pl). Our premiere concert, in Teatr Mały, mentioned in the last news, was a very successfull event. Mariana Sadovska' →