Paweł Michałowski - bass player, session musician, composer and teacher
I was born in 1982 in Wrocław. I started playing the bass guitar at the age of 15, and a year later I started taking tuition givenby Andrzej Stagraczyński. Thanks to him I got to know not only various techniques of the bass guitar playing and musical styles, but also I began studying the complex stylings of such jazz/fusion bass players as: Jaco Pastorius,Stanley Clarke, John Patitucci, Jeff Berlin, or Marcus Miller, and rock/heavy bass players, above all: Billy Sheehan, Stuart Hamm, Dave Larue and SteveHarris. In my first band we played songs of Deep Purple, Black Sabbath and Iron Maiden. Later we started writing our own music.
At the age of 19 I recorded EP with the progressive band Infinite Dream (publishedby own edition). More or less at the same time I graduated from the faculty on the Music Academy of Wrocław, so I gained the knowledge and abilities from the scope of the baseof the improvisation and the jazz harmony.
Since 2000 I have cooperated (also as a session musician) during recording sessions and concerts with artists presenting allsorts musical kinds. With Elysium band I recorded albums Deadline and Godfather (released by Metal Mind Productions and Empire Records). For the year I cooperated with Lost Soul band. At that time, I played many concerts in the country (among other things I played at international V Hell Festival in 2002 and Metalmania in 2003). I also played concert tour called Empire Invasion Tour2003 together with bands such as Dies Irae (musicians from Vader) Hate and Esqarial.
For two years I had the pleasure to be a part of hard core band Chaqma.
I recorded the music video called Real I and played many concerts in the country, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. With Nasty Crüe band I recorded the single Rock Star (own edition) and I appeared in music vide ocalled the same. I also appeared with Jacek Telus (poet, musician and songwriter, among other things he’s a co-founder of Poerox band and Jacques de Lousse group). I also have had the pleasure to cooperate with the winners of television musical programs (Szansa na Sukces and The Idol).
In years from 2008 to 2013 I taught at private school music Rock, Blues & Heavy in Wrocław. Thanks to this cooperation I had the pleasure to be a part of annual Thanks Jimi Festival organised in Wrocław during which
I performed songs of Jimi Hendrix in the company of such artists as: Steve Morse, Ray Wilson, Leszek Cichoński, Marek Raduli, Jarosław Śmietana, Mietek Jurecki, Andrzej Nowak, Marek Piekarczyk and Krzysztof Misiak.
Currently I am one half of the founding members of the band Kameesh and I’m also a bass player in the band. In 2010 we recorded the single “I Wanna Be”(realesed by MegaTotal) which we promoted at many concerts in the country and during concert tour in Ireland.