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I am an:: Indie Artist

Artist's or Band's Name: Michal Rutkowski

City & State: Warsaw

Country: Poland

Music Genre(s):: Progressive Rock/ Alternative

Bio:: Poet & prose writer, painter (oil paintings, ink & water-color works), creative musician, and video artist. He is keen on psychological & philosophical subjects; his works are unconventional and there is a print of constant experimenting with both: the contents and the form they are given when turned into artistic works. Vegan.

LITERATURE
He debuted in high-school with a story published in one of the major newspapers in Warsaw. During his studies he published aphorisms (using a pen-name) in a student’s magazine focusing on psychology and sociology.

In the year 2015 there were 3 books of his published in Poland: two of them are philosophical novels, the third one is a book of poetry.

PAINTING
He debuted (as a student) selling oil & tempera works in the Arka gallery in Warsaw.

Solo exhibitions (title/town/year):
Retrospective Exhibition/ Galeria Inspiracje, Warsaw/ 2009
Dynamic & Energetic Painting/ Galeria Inspiracje, Warsaw/ 2011
Paint me a bliss/ Galeria Schody, Warsaw/ 2014
the Small Retrospective/ Bielanian Libraries, Warsaw/ 2016

Painter’s signature: „R”.

MUSIC
His musical activity can be traced back to early childhood. As a teenager he played the guitar in a rock band, which recorded a 6-songs demo & made it to perform live in a quite big club of that times. This is the period of life, when his composing and lyrics' writing skills arose. The band split up when the members started to study at different universities.

Solo albums:
"ARIADNE" - EP, 2015. "Ariadne" contains almost 20 minutes of improvised guitar music.
"OUR AWESOME BUZZ" - single, 2015.
"ORIENT" - LP, 2016. Concept-Album.
The newest LP album (February 2017), is "FIREBALL". Of 70 minutes in lenght it includes FreePlay improvisations, symphonic guitar tracks, and melodic songs like "Flowy Wind", "BallRoom", or "Toy".

He also created some music videos containing music tracks, which are otherwise not in distribution. Some of it may be stil watched on Michał's VIMEO channel.

His music has been aired on different radio stations, like Strawberry Tongue Radio, KISS International 107.7 FM, STAR International 99.9 FM radio, or Radio Alpha. In the year 2016 the artist has been nominated for the 2nd Annual Radio Music Awards powered by Indie Music Channel (Best Male Alternative Artist cattegory).

AUDIO-VIDEO
Major video works (title/year/duration):

WAKEXITER/ 2010/ 7:22
OPHELIA/ 2011/ 9:18
UMBRELLA/ 2011/ 3:56
The Work of the Sun/ 2014/ 4:11
UNDERSTAND/ 2016/ 7:18