MOTION TRIO – Krakow’s acclaimed contemporary classical accordion trio deliver vanguard music.
Motion Trio, the formidable Polish accordion trio, create a striking music that blends the fire of Eastern European roots music with the icy precision of the great classical composers. Called the ‘Trio Infernal’ by fans of their intense, impassioned sound, Motion Trio have been praised by such modern masters as Michael Nyman and Joe Zawinul.
Lead by Janusz Wojtarowicz, Motion Trio are a unique outfit playing Janusz’s original compositions that draw on both his classical training in Krakow’s celebrated observatories and the traditional music of Central and Eastern Europe. Formed in 1996, Motion Trio have developed from buskers on the streets of Poland into a world renowned outfit. The Trio have toured widely and, while doing so, brought in dynamic shades from rock and techno so to make their sound even more fierce. To hear Motion Trio in concert is akin to experiencing a Paganini recital or Metallica concert, so powerful and exciting is their sound. Yet they achieve such intense performances without employing anything but their accordions: no guitars, no drums, no samplers, no loops or tricks. Motion Trio are musicians who have honed their skills to the very highest degree and rely only on talent and imagination to ensure they are one of the most exciting live bands working anywhere today.
Listeners new to Motion Trio express amazement at the band’s ability to create a unique, highly original sound that ranges between minimal music, jazz and rock and meet what Janusz describes as “the Notion of Motion: to redefine the accordion and explore soundscapes far beyond what one associates and experienced with this instrument so far.”
Motion Trio’s series of albums have won wide acclaim, collecting praise and awards from classical, world and jazz reviewers while the intensity of their live performance has seen them win standing ovations at concert halls and music festivals across the world.
Janusz Wojtarowicz states, “other instruments like the violin, guitar and piano have already been exhausted in their own ways, and at this point not much new can really be done with them. It’s entirely different with the accordion, which is only just now being gradually discovered an played experimentally. Accordion traditionalists have run out of ideas, and it is our goal to extract notes from the accordion which have never been heard before, to develop completely new sounds and forms, and transfer them onto CD as well as of course to present them live.”
Praised by critics internationally and recognized by leading classical, jazz and rock musicians for their technique and originality, Motion Trio create a vanguard music that never fails to surprise, excite and delight.