Singer, violinist, and composer Alice Zawadzki was born to an English linguist mother, and Polish historian father, and is one of six children. “Loosely connected to the world of jazz, but realistically inhabiting her own realm” (Clash Magazine), her creative output is an intricate tapestry of influences and exploration, finding home in the peripheries of the contemporary classical, jazz, art-pop, and folk worlds – “all propelled with a voice of velvet suppleness and gutsy emotional intensity” (The Arts Desk). Za Górami (2024) is Alice’s debut album for ECM, together with long-term collaborators Fred Thomas and Misha Mullov Abbado. On their debut recording, they present a rare alchemy, fusing folk idioms from a multitude of sources with free-flowing interplay and fluid structures. Recorded at Lugano’s Radio Stelio Molo and produced by Manfred Eicher, Za Górami encompasses folk song, chamber music, improvisation and jazz, combining the full span of the trio’s reach in a mesmerizing whole. "Her phrasing is sophisticated yet instinctive, and she injects drama, playfulness and tenderness into the songs with an acute awareness of meaning, as well as the sound and silence around her. An exquisite recording that penetrates a little deeper with every listen." - Jazzwise Magazine "With her glacial voice and puckish fiddle, Alice Zawadzki would be notable enough. Add her compositional range and whimsical hyper-creativity and she becomes something of a phenomenon." - MOJO Magazine