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OLENKA'S "RHYTHMS OF ANOTHER LIFE" Brings Funky World Grooves In A
Pop-Friendly Sound

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Multiple music arts grant-award winner Alexandra "Olenka" Gadzik
emigrated from the Carpathian Mountains of Poland with her parents and
sister in 1977. Growing up in multi-cultural New York City nurtured
in her a love and affinity for world music.

Now with Olenka's second fully orchestrated release, Rhythms of
Another Life, her world fusion rhythms and spiraling Euro-fringe
melodies, sing the stories of women, foreigners, and belonging in a
global culture. The CD is receiving heavy airplay on radio and is now
available at www.olenka.com/music , www.CDBaby.com/cd/olenka2 and
www.itunes.com .

Olenka blends funky ethnic grooves and instruments with jazz-caliber
musicianship, poetic lyrics, and a pop-friendly sound. Her passion
for integrating world music with state-of-the-art production is long
standing. In 1989 she collaborated with Peruvian buskers, or street
musicians, in New York City on her worldbeat song "Cold Faith". It
featured the Peruvian zampona (panpipe) player Ricardo Silva,
orchestrated with the recently invented Chapman Stick guitar/bass.
That same year "Cold Faith" appeared on the compilation of New York
bands entitled Fresh Kills and it now appears on Olenka's debut CD
Making Arrows.

Her recent release, Rhythms of Another Life, was part of her project
"World Rhythms in Original Music" for which she received a grant from
the Iowa Arts Council. In applying for the grant Olenka competed with
large organizations like the Cedar Rapids Symphony Orchestra and the
Des Moines Opera Company. Hers was the largest grant awarded for an
individual artist project in that season. The project included a
20-venue tour and the recording of the CD Rhythms of Another Life
which was co-produced by percussionist Jamey Reid. Songs like
"Tumbleweed" and "Different Drum" combine world rhythms, in
particularly odd meters like Indian seven and Finnish thirteen beat
patterns, with a full production and a Western pop sensibility. The
CD contains liner notes with rhythm notation and descriptions of the
world rhythms used.

Olenka's live performance ensemble Otro Mundo features guest musicians
including flamenco, Latin and Gypsy jazz guitarists and ethnic
percussionists. Otro Mundo combines world jazz like bossa nova and
fado songs with an original repertoire and touches of flamenco dance.
Her live projects also include the Slavic/Nordic women's a cappella
vocal ensemble Zloti Village Chorus which sings a Slavic repertoire
with Olenka's English lyrics and translations. The Zloti Village
Chorus is currently the only chorus in the world singing Slavic
material in English.