IMMORTAL ONION

Immortal Onion biography
Immortal Onion are an instrumental band from Gdansk, PL. The group consists of Ziemowit Klimek (upright bass/bass guitar/moog), Tomir Spiolek (keyboards) and Wojtek Warmijak (drums).

The band was formed in 2016. Having won the Jazz phonographic debut competition, the group released their first album (Ocelot of Salvation) in July 2017. Since then, they have performed in 12 countries at numerous international festivals and venues. In 2019, the trio recorded and self-released their live album from Sopot.

Immortal Onion offers a bold combination of many seemingly remote styles - jazz, minimalism as well as fusion, electronic music and even progressive metal.

The trio performed its original material at many venues, among others at the 41st Gdynia Film Festival Awards ceremony. Their close relationship with the movie industry goes even beyond that, as they have also created and performed live improvised scores to two animation movies: at the II International Animation Film Festival in Gdansk and at the 17th Silent Film Festival at the award-winning Kino Pod Baranami in Cracow.

The inspiration for the band formation were, to name just a few, Esbjorn Svensson, Hiromi Uehara and Tigran Hamasyan, In terms of genre, Immortal Onion offers a combination of many seemingly remote styles, jazz, film music, minimalism as well as fusion, electronic music and even progressive metal.

The unique sound of the group originates from the stylistic variety, and skilful combi- nation of rhythmically complex, energetic riffs with minimalistic, trans beats and lyri- cal themes.