• Lentz Villa’s garden

• 03-06-2023, Saturday, at 7:00 pm - Ticketed event

We are pleased to announce another performance at the Lentz Villa, by two artists who ostensibly represent two different worlds. On Saturday 3rd June 2023, we present WARP TRAVELERS, a project of the brilliant jazz musician, Poland’s most recognizable vibraphonist Bernard Maseli (who is also an arranger, music producer, and academic teacher) and DJ Eprom, a leading Polish DJ, rapper, and producer, winner of five Fryderyk Awards.

Their project is, we hear, ‘a space voyage exploring electronic, acoustic, jazz, and hip-hop sound, entering our ears at a pace that leaves the speed of light far behind. This non-commercial air company’s original improvised flight guarantees unique space for the audience.’

We hope you will join us for this crazy musical voyage and come to the Villa to meet our unconventional Artists.

Bernard Maseli began his career on the Polish jazz scene with Walk Away at the 1985 Jazz on the Odra festival, where he won the soloist Grand Prix and his band – the first prize in its category. Together with Walk Away, he recorded more than ten albums and took part in major jazz festivals in Poland and abroad, including Jazz Jamboree Festivals in Warsaw and Jak-Jazz in Indonesia. He performs with the greatest stars such as Kuba Badach, Dean Brown, Urszula Dudziak, Anna Maria Jopek, and Mike Stern. He took part in a joint concert tour with the legendary trumpeter Miles Davis. For more than two dozen years he has been ranked first in the vibraphone category of Jazz Forum monthly’s Jazz Top survey. He is a professor at the Jazz and Popular Music Faculty of the Academy of Music in Katowice.

DJ Eprom, also known as Sztigar (Foreman) Bonko, born in Jastrzębie Zdrój at the heart of Upper Silesia, is a leading recording engineer and music producer, IDA World DJ Champion, member of bands: Flapjack, Kaliber44, Warp Travelers, and Wzgórze Ya-Pa 3, co-founder of Modulators, working with such artists as Bernard Maseli, Grubson, Fisz Emade, Krzysztof Zalewski, Brodka, Organek, Robert Cichy, Wojtek Mazolewski, 1988, and D-Styles. He is the owner of Eprom Sounds analogue studio, whose mixing and mastering projects have won acclaim in the music market, confirmed by Gold and Platinum Discs. Five-time Fryderyk winner, IDA World Champion in the Show, Technical, and Show Class categories, 2005 European Vice-Champion and Polish Champion more than a dozen times.

Bios

Bernard Maseli

Outstanding jazz vibraphonist and, most of all, one of the most popular artists in the Polish electric jazz scene, he has collaborated with such artists as Urszula Dudziak, Nippy Noya, Bill Bruford, Dean Brown, Mike Stern, Eric Marienthal, Hadrien Feraud, Kuba Badach, and Anna Maria Jopek. He was the co-founder of Walk Away, The Globetrotters, and MaBaSo. He appears on more than 100 albums and has ranked first in the Jazz Top lists for 26 years.

DJ Eprom

A leading DJ, rapper, sound engineer and producer, whose talent has resulted in collaborations with Fisz Emade, Taco Hemingway, Shy Albatross, Natalia Przybysz, Grubson, Krzysztof Zalewski, Robert Cichy, and others. Founder of Modulators and Sztigar Bonko, five-time Fryderyk Award winner and IDA Finals World Champion in the Show, Technical, and Show Class categories, as well as DJShop Workshop Battle and Screcz.com Battle Champion in the Pro category.