Tymon Tymański, Marcin Gałązka, Maciej Cieślak, Patrick The Pan, Michał Dymny and Piotr Aleksander Nowak – we already know all the names of Polish guitarists who will play with Adrian Utley’s Guitar Orchestra! Utley wanted to be accompanied by local, Polish artists, during the opening concert of this year’s edition of the Sacrum Profanum Festival. He has also invited Pianohooligan, with whom he reinterpreted Steve Reich’s composition during the Sacrum Profanum grand finale concert in 2011, to join the ensemble. We would like to remind you that this year, the festival will begin on the 15th of September and will last until the 22nd of September. An alternative reinterpretation of Terry Riley’s In C by an underground Bristol group cannot happen without the participation of Polish musicians representing various music styles. A versatile musician, multi-instrumentalist, composer, poet, prose writer, and, last but not least, the leader and founder of such legendary groups as Miłość and Kury, Tymon Tymański, fits perfectly into this iconoclastic raucous approach to music. You may listen to his take at jazz from Tymański Yass Ensamble’s albums. Apart from Tymon, his right hand in Tymon & the Transistors, Marcin Gałązka will participate in the concert. Both gentlemen compose and produce the group’s pieces. Also Maciej Cieślak, the leader and founder of one of the most important guitar bands, Ścianka, will add his guitar to this venture. Along with Artur Rojek and Mietall Waluś, he created Lenny Valentino, a great band which, regrettably, has ceased its activity. He has recently exchanged his distortion pedal for acoustic sound and plays with the Cieślak i Księżniczki quartet. On the 15th of September, we will also see Krakow-based musicians in Adrian Utley’s Guitar Orchestra at the Małopolska Garden of Arts. Patrick the Pan is winning Polish audiences with his melodious and melancholic songs which combine energy and nostalgia. The name stands for a modest and shy man, Piotr Madej, who managed to persuade Piotr Cyrwus to star in his music video. Michał Dymny improvises in his sonoric playing on a modified electric guitar – this sentence alone sounds very much like Sacrum Profanum! He is active within the Krakow stage that has formed around a series of concerts called Muzykoterapia [Music Therapy], he has performed, among others, at the Unsound and Audio Art festivals. Piotr Aleksander Nowak or P.A.N. instrumenty lutnicze – not only does he play the guitar, he also makes them in his luthier’s workshop. He is also the leader of the band Duch, which calls their heavy, electronic music performed on acoustic instruments “acoustronics”. Piotr Orzechowski and Adrian Utley had met before the concert Reich 75 in 2011. They performed an improvised variation on Steve Reich’s Electric Guitar Phase together. Orzechowski uses a pseudonym Pianohooligan, with which he signed his debut album Experiment: Penderecki which includes piano variations of Penderecki’s masterful avant-garde compositions. On the 27th of August, the High Definition Quartet released their debut LP Hopasa featuring Pianohooligan.