Upojenie

Upojenie

Studio album by

Anna Maria Jopek and Friends with Pat Metheny

Released

2002

Recorded

Warsaw, Poland

Genre

Jazz, folk

Length

61:34

Label

Warner Music Poland
Nonesuch (international edition)

Producer

Marcin Kydryński, Pat Metheny

Pat Metheny chronology

Tokyo Day Trip
(2008)

Upojenie
(2002)

Quartet Live
(2009)

Anna Maria Jopek chronology

Nienasycenie
(2002)

Upojenie
(2002)

Secret
(2005)

International Edition Cover

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]

Upojenie (English: Ecstasy) is a 2002 collaboration between singer Anna Maria Jopek and guitarist Pat Metheny, recorded in Warsaw, Poland. It features Jopek's compositions and traditional folk song arrangements, as well as some of Metheny's well-known tracks, such as "Are You Going with Me?" and "Follow Me". Finally, there is "Polskie drogi" ("Polish Paths") – a cover of a main theme for a film series of the same title by Andrzej Kurylewicz.

In 2008 an international edition of the album was released by Nonesuch Records. The running order of the selections is different and three additional songs are included.

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Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Cichy zapada zmrok"	Traditional	3:28
2.	"Przypływ, odpływ, oddech czasu" (Tell Her You Saw Me)	Metheny, Polish lyrics by Magda Czapińska	4:52
3.	"Tam, gdzie nie sięga wzrok" (Follow Me)	Metheny, Lyle Mays, Polish lyrics by Czapińska	3:52
4.	"Biel"	Marcin Kydryński	3:24
5.	"Czarne słowa"	Jopek	5:15
6.	"Letter from Home"	Metheny	2:50
7.	"Are You Going with Me?"	Metheny, Mays	8:34
8.	"Zupełnie inna ja" (Always and Forever)	Metheny, Polish lyrics by Kydryński	4:00
9.	"Mania mienia" (So May It Secretly Begin)	Metheny, Polish lyrics by Andrzej Poniedzielski	3:41
10.	"By on był tu" (Farmer's Trust)	Metheny, Polish lyrics by Poniedzielski	6:58
11.	"Upojenie"	Jopek, Stanisław Grochowiak	4:52
12.	"Piosenka dla Stasia"	Kydryński	3:54
13.	"Me jedyne niebo" (Another Life)	Metheny, Polish lyrics by Kydryński	3:16
14.	"Polskie drogi"	Andrzej Kurylewicz	2:33

2008 International Edition
No.	Title	English Title	Length
1.	"Cichy zapada zmrok"	Here Comes the Silent Dusk	3:26
2.	"Mania mienia"	So May It Secretly Begin	3:41
3.	"Biel"	Whiteness	3:22
4.	"Przypływ, odpływ, oddech czasu..."	High Tide, Low Tide, The Breath of Time...	4:45
5.	"Are You Going with Me?"		8:35
6.	"Czarne słowa"	Black Words	5:13
7.	"Lulajźe Jezuniu"	Polish Christmas Carol	5:14
8.	"Upojenie"	Ecstasy	4:46
9.	"Zupełnie inna ja"	The Different Me	3:56
10.	"Piosenka dla Stasia"	A Song for Stas	3:48
11.	"Letter from Home"		2:49
12.	"Me jedyne niebo"	My Only Heaven	3:18
13.	"By on był tu"	Let It Stay	6:56
14.	"Polskie drogi"	Polish Paths	2:50
15.	"Tam, gdzie nie sięga wzrok"	Further Than the Eye Can See	3:51
16.	"Na całej połaci Śnieg"	The Snow Falls All Over the Place	1:47
17.	"Szepty i łzy"	Whispers and Tears	4:47

Tracks 7, 16, and 17 are only on the international edition (2008).

Personnel

Anna Maria Jopek – vocals, electric piano (tracks 1–10, 12, 13, 15–17)
Pat Metheny – guitars, guitar synthesizer, 42-string Pikasso guitar, synthesizers (tracks 1–10, 12–17)
Leszek Możdżer – piano (tracks 2, 4–8, 11, 13, 15, 17)
Paweł Bzim Zarecki – synthesizers, synthesizer programming, organ, percussion (tracks 2, 4–6, 8, 10, 12, 15, 17)
Mateusz Pospieszalski – synthesizer, synthesizer programming (tracks 2, 12)
Darek Oleszkiewicz – double bass (tracks 2, 4–8, 10, 12, 13, 14)
Marcin Pospieszalski – electric bass, synthesizer programming (tracks 5, 6, 15)
Robert Kubiszyn – double bass (track 17)
Cezary Konrad – drums (tracks 2, 4–8, 10, 12, 13, 14)
Wojciech Kowalewski – percussion (tracks 2, 4–6, 15)
Mino Cinelu – percussion (tracks 8, 12, 17)
Henryk Miśkiewicz – soprano saxophone (tracks 8, 9)
Piotr Nazaruk – flute, recorder, percussion, hammered dulcimer, banjo, vocals (tracks 2–6, 15)
Bernard Maseli – vibraphone (track 2)
Marek Pospieszalski – turntables (track 2)
Marek Napiorkówski – guitar (tracks 8, 17)
Barney – vocals (track 5)
Mateusz Pospieszalski – string conductor (tracks 2, 12)
Krzysztof Bzówka, Józef Kolinek, Patrycja Jopek, Katarzyna Gilewska-Zagrodzińska, Artur Gadzała,
Robert Dąbrowski – violins
Włodzimierz Żurawski, Dariusz Kisieliński – violas
Jerzy Muranty, Janusz Olechwoski – cellos

Technical

Marcin Kydryński and Pat Metheny – producer
Anna Maria Jopek and Paweł Bzim Zarecki – co-producer
Pat Metheny, Anna Maria Jopek, Mateusz Pospieszalski, Marcin Kydrynski, Pawel Bzim Zarecki, Leszek Mozdzer, Henryk Miskiewicz and Marcin Pospieszalski – arranger
Jacek Zurawski – executive producer
Tadeusz Mieczkowski, Paweł Bzim Zarecki, Marcin Pospieszalski and Mateusz Pospieszalski – recording
Tadeusz Mieczkowski, Andrzej Karp and Joanna Popowicz – mixing
Kasia Mrozewska – design
Jacek Poremba – photography
Piotr Dumala – artwork

Charts and certifications

Weekly charts

Chart (2002)	Peak position
Polish Albums (ZPAV)^[2]	1

Chart (2008)	Peak position
US World Albums (Billboard)^[3]	9

Certifications


Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
Poland (ZPAV)^[4]	Platinum	70,000^*
^* Sales figures based on certification alone.

References

^ Jurek, Thom. Pat Metheny: Upojenie > Review at AllMusic. Retrieved November 4, 2011.
^ "Oficjalna lista sprzedaży :: OLiS - Official Retail Sales Chart". OLiS. Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry. Retrieved June 4, 2016.
^ "Pat Metheny Chart History (World Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved October 12, 2018.
^ "Wyróżnienia – Platynowe płyty CD - Archiwum - Przyznane w 2003 roku" (in Polish). Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry. Retrieved June 4, 2016.

External links

Pat Metheny

Group albums

As leader

Pat Metheny Group	Pat Metheny Group (1978) American Garage (1979) Offramp (1982) Travels (1983) First Circle (1984) The Falcon and the Snowman (1985) Still Life (Talking) (1987) Letter from Home (1989) The Road to You (1993) We Live Here (1995) Quartet (1996) Imaginary Day (1997) Speaking of Now (2002) The Way Up (2005)
Others	Bright Size Life (1976) Watercolors (1977) 80/81 (1980) Rejoicing (1984) Question and Answer (1990) Secret Story (1992) Flower Hour (1992) Trio 99 → 00 (2000) Trio → Live (2000) Day Trip (2008) Tokyo Day Trip (2008) Unity Band (2012) Kin (←→) (2014) The Unity Sessions (2016) From This Place (2020)