Groundbreaking bassist/composer Kinga Głyk has announced the release of her eagerly anticipated new album, Real Life, arriving via Warner Music on Friday, Jan 26th.

Recorded with GRAMMY® Award-winning engineer/mixer Nic Hard (Snarky Puppy, Charlie Hunter, Ute Lemper) in multiple sessions during winter 2022-23 at Michael League’s Estudi Vint in Catalonia, Spain, Real Life marks Kinga Głyk’s first new album in more than four years as well as the most distinctive work of her still-evolving career.

The 26-year-old, Poland/France-based musician – who affirmed herself as a generational talent with international live performances along with millions of YouTube views for viral bass covers of Eric Clapton, Bruno Mars, Vulfpeck, and more – endeavored to create something utterly her own, a one of-a-kind strain of contemporary instrumental songcraft inspired by jazz and funk but uniquely original in arrangement and aesthetic approach.

1. Fast Life
2. Unfollower
3. Who Cares
4. Island
5. Not Real
6. Unseen Bruises
7. Swimming in the Sky
8. The Friend You Call
9. That Right There
10. Funny Bunny
11. Sadness Does Not Last Forever
12. Opinions

Głyk’s compositional gifts come immediately to the forefront here, as the new recording opens on the veritably glistening Fast Life and the sterner, low slung appeal of Unfollower and then we are brought forth the jaunty electro beats found within Who Cares, the airy Island, the flamboyant, slap bass-imbibed Not Real and then we get the electronically shimmering Unseen Bruises.

Along next is the drum-veined Swimming in the Sky and the free flowing beauty of The Friend You Call and they are themselves backed by the funky grooves laid down on my own personal favorite That Right There, the recording rounding out on the ethereally harmonized, short but sweet Funny Bunny, the varying ebb and flow within the hand-clapper Sadness Does Not Last Forever, closing on the soaring Opinions.

“In my first conversation with Michael, he asked me what I wanted to say through the music,” Kinga Glyk says. “I told him, I want to lead with the bass but I don’t want people to think this is just a bassist’s album. The idea was creating beautiful songs. Music can be interesting and strong enough itself to touch your heart even if there are no lyrics. I love to use music to describe my feelings and to make beautiful songs that can touch someone’s heart. You don’t necessarily think, oh, it must be a bass player who made this. It’s more about telling stories through music.”

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