Muzyk Robert Kacprzycki

Sin nombre

Robert Kacprzycki, 2008

1. Veteran - 13:40
2. Another day like yesterday - 7:17
3. Sin nonbre - 12:08
4. Driving back to Mexico - 15:51
Author: Robert Kacprzycki

Robert Kacprzycki: lead, solo and bass guitar, clave, shackers, bongo drums
David Saucedo Valle: conga drums, quiro, shackers, shackere'a
Maciej Szyszkowski: harmonica
Tomasz Grabski: tenor saxofon

All mixed and mastered by Robert Kacprzycki

“Sin nombre" was released in June 2008 by my company RK-SYSTEM.
The record was distributed among friends and clients of my company.

After recording the record entitled "Młodszy brat Bongosa" [Bongosa’s younger brother], Maciek unfortunately had to leave Grodzisko and moved to Lublin which made our contact more difficult and we could not play together when it was convenient for us. We also had another problem as we did not have a regular drummer. I became so fascinated with the sound of congas that I decided to learn to play them myself.
I bought professional Meinl drums, bearing a signature by 'Luis Conte’ but it was not that easy without a tutor. At the beginning my hands were black and blue and so I decided to find someone who had a better feeling of this then me. I browsed the internet and finally came across the name: David Saucedo Valle. I called up the guy.
After a short conversation, it turned out that David was a very nice guy. He invited me home to have my first lesson of how to play congas. David was a Mexican and had lived in Poland for 10 years. He had quite many stage contacts, he played with the Maanam band for about 8 years and he performed with many other known Polish artists. He played congas, djembes, batá drums, bongos and many other ethnical percussion instruments.
I can definitely say that he was a walking encyclopaedia of knowledge about rhythms and various types of percussion instruments.
David quickly understood that I was a greenhorn as far as playing drums was concerned.
So, he started working with me from scratch. After about 2 months of playing and training the "tumbao" technique and slapping which is not easy to play on that kind of the drum, I slowly started to acquire skill. Finally, I and David could play various drum jams together. After a relatively short period of knowing each other, we quickly realised that we shared the same understanding of music.
Therefore, I offered David a different kind of cooperation, that is, I invited him to my studio to play and record music together.
Before my each meeting with David, I composed my own music and then I and David played the rhythm section to it. I came to a conclusion that it did not make sense for me to keep beating “the bull’s leather" myself when I had such a good expert on these things with me. So, I concentrated on guitars, composing, mixing and mastering since I had no a replacement for these jobs.
David Sub Comendante, as I called him - since the title "Comendante" was reserved for me - listened to my earlier pieces and then said: "Man, you are playing with a fillet...", which in his dialect meant that I had a good "feeling".
Whenever we had free time, I met to play and record music together. We were both so passionate about music that within a short period of time I finished another record and gave a Spanish title "Sin nombre" which means 'No name'.
Considering the fact that keeping contact with Maciek became a little difficult, I decided to add a saxophone to my music. I recruited Tomek Grabski as a saxophonist and used his playing in some of my compositions. This record has been the first to include the beautiful composition entitled "Veteran". It included a specific harmony of accords which I invented, flavoured with a subtle and sensational guitar solo. After recording this piece, I sent it to Maciek who described it briefly as follows:
"... Man, it sweeps you off your feet...".
He liked the composition so much that he joined me after some time came and we added a harmonica to it.
Before the completion of the recording, David had to go to Mexico for a few months and then I felt a little blue :(, without him. To write music, you need nothing but emotions, I immediately composed a piece entitled "Driving back to Mexico", a live blues piece strongly influenced by my guitar idol, Jimmy Hendrix.

So, another landmark stone has been laid...