Electro folk

Gooral

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Gooral, also known as Mateusz Górny, is a Polish music producer who was born near the mountains in Bielsko-Biala. He became famous for combining electronic music, drum’n’bass and dubstep with ethnic highland style music into his own unique style.

Gooral’s music career began in 2003, when his remix of Led Zeppelin’s "Whola lotta love" placed second on Radio Bis charts. His real popularity came with the emergence of Psio Crew, an electro-highland band, which he founded with Maciej "Kamer" Szymonowicz in 2004, and later released the debut album "Szumi Jawor Soundsystem". In 2008, Gooral left Psio Crew, only to join the reactivated group in 2015 with redoubled force.

The commotion surrounding Gooral was nothing in comparison to the craziness that began after his first solo CD “Ethno Elektro” which was released in 2011 and which contained 14 pieces, amongst with was his greatest hit - "Karczmareczka".

In 2013, for the second time in his career, Gooral performed at the Polish Woodstock Festival, this time cooperating and appearing on the stage together with the Polish national group presenting Polish folklore - Mazovia, making the several hundred thousands crowd go literally crazy. The whole performance was recorded and then appeared on DVD and CD.

In 2014 he released the second solo album "Better Place" produced with Gooral’s manager Łukasz Adamczewski under their own record label, Kardiogram Tunes. The CD is the final work of a collaboration with a vocalist Anna Wiosna Rogowska and Maciej Szymonowicz.

Gooral performed at many prominent festivals, solo or with Psio Crew: Sziget Festival, Colours of Ostrava, Porgy and Bess, Heineken Open’er, Woodstock Festival, Coke Live Festival, Orange Warsaw Festival and many more. He also made the soundtrack for Frank Hurley’s movie "South" form 1919.

With Psio Crew he was honoured with the Machine award for the music debut, the third award at New Tradition Folk Festival of Polish Radio and nominated for the Fryderyk award in the category Ethno/Folk Album and New Face of Music Industry for "Szumi Jawor Soundsystem". Together with Jan Mędrala he won the Radio Waves Festival. Gooral's album was nominated for the CD of the year in Gazeta Wyborcza competition.

Currently Gooral is working on his solo studio album based on his favourites kinds of techno and minimal.