Smolik // Kev Fox

SMOLIK // KEV FOX

March 2nd, 2019, 8 PM
Fama club, 5 Legionowa Street
tickets: 60 PLN (presale) / 70 PLN (on the day of the concert) – SOLD OUT

Andrzej Smolik – Polish musician, composer, music producer, and multi-instrumentalist. He began his career as a keyboard player in the band Wilki in 1993. Later he collaborated with Wilki’s vocalist, Robert Gawliński on the production of his solo album Solo. In 1996 and 1997 Smolik worked with the group Hey. He also collaborated with Hey’s vocalist Kasia Nosowska on her solo album Milena in 1998. In following years he continued to work with Nosowska and Gawliński on their subsequent solo projects. He also worked with DJ Novika and with the group Myslovitz, and Artur Rojek, Mika Urbaniak, Krzysztof Krawczyk. Smolik won the national “Fryderyk” award for composers in 2003 and 2004. And in 2004 he won a ‘Polityka’s Passport Award’ from one of the biggest opinion-forming newsmagazines in Poland – Polityka (“Politics”). His solo albums are Smolik (2001), Smolik 2 (2003), 3 (2006) and “4” (2010). Later, he started collaboration with a British musician Kev Fox, what resulted in two albums released in 2015 and 2018. In 2016 he co-created an album Historie commemorating Warsaw uprising.

Kev Fox – Though his songs are often dark and haunting tales of longing based on a keen social awareness, there are gorgeous melodies and the acoustic guitar live loops, samples and beats make some of his work reminiscent of Neil Young, John Martyn, Nick Drake or Elbow. The songs are sensitive, soulful, and Fox’s soaring vocals lend them a sense of beauty that is rarely seen these days. Kev spent 3 years on and off the road with his band through Europe/Uk/Ireland clocking up some serious mileage and selling over 5000 copies of his first EP ‘Help yourself’. During this period, whilst on tour in Poland. Kev met Andrzej Smolik, a very well respected record producer (Winner Of The Golden Ear Award 2011 Previous Winners include Daniel Lanois,(u2) Brian Eno, Martin Hannet, Joy Division) at a show in Warsaw. Andrzej invited Kev to his studio to put a track together. The track L.O.O.T.T was featured on the album Smolik 4. The album hit gold status and stayed in the top 10 for 6 months. After playing numerous sold out shows after the release of Smolik 4, Kev Fox and his band took some time out to record Kev’s debut album ‘King For A Day’.